Example sentences of "i [verb] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mum why did I bump into a chair ? |
| 2 | I got into a fight with a man whose IQ was so low , it took him ten minutes to say ‘ press wanker ’ . |
| 3 | He and I got into a bit of a squabble . |
| 4 | This is very embarrassing but last night I got into a bit of a state about not hearing from you for so long and I 'm afraid I sent you a completely mad letter which I … |
| 5 | I got into a mess with the reins when I was turning and Prince began to reverse towards the edge of the ghyll by the side of the field , which had a sharp drop . |
| 6 | We separated , and as soon as I got into a side street , I went down it and there at the bottom was Cuttle 's Bakehouse . |
| 7 | In the fifties I got into a set of about a dozen or so gay men in South London . |
| 8 | I got into a band when I was 13 playing melodic punk . |
| 9 | Then I got into a phone-box and made a reverse charges call to Auntie Jean , who was drunk and abusive as usual . |
| 10 | I sank into a kind of Romantic melancholy , which I could feed and sustain by reading Keats , Shelley , Tennyson , Matthew Arnold , and ( above all ) Byron . |
| 11 | I sank into a stupor . |
| 12 | Per , at No. 20 with How Do You Do , reveals : ‘ I bumped into a chambermaid as I tried to get back in . |
| 13 | I did n't venture further in to find the owls in case I bumped into a Brother . |
| 14 | Really , I moved into a building site and tried to make a life while work was in progress ! |
| 15 | Then I went to work in another factory as a machinist and I moved into a room with the child . |
| 16 | I changed into a dress . |
| 17 | I plugged into a Zoom and everyone said , ‘ It 's just a reference guitar so let's focus on the drums . ’ |
| 18 | I sauntered into a pie shop and carefully scrutinised the handbill which declared its distributor to be a foreigner : Jean Pierre Ralemberg , from Dijon , with a dwelling and warehouse in an alley off Bread Street . |
| 19 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 20 | It was probably some arrangement of S– and R — 's , but whenever I came into a room where they were , they trickled out ! |
| 21 | I walk into a dance rehearsal as a well-adjusted 44-year-old woman holding on to my valiums and the hope that I 'm growing old gracefully , and I walk out a 19-year-old hooligan with purple hair extensions , leopard-skin cycling shorts , black lip-gloss and the word ‘ menopause ’ blocked out of my consciousness . |
| 22 | To do so I drove into a petrol station by the BBC Television Centre in order to do a U-turn . |
| 23 | I climb into a taxi and head for Harvey Nichols to do some damage with the Barclaycard and the taxi driver tells me about his brother-in-law . |
| 24 | I climb into a cab outside 72 Market Street . |
| 25 | When the exorcism was carried out , and Gittel and her husband left the district a few weeks later , I dropped into a kind of daze . |
| 26 | Am I going into a studio ? |
| 27 | There were some splendid Cotswold-stone outbuildings and these I turned into a retirement cottage years later for the elderly Bassetts . |
| 28 | So gradually I am claiming my philosophical estate and already believe in myself ; it would n't even surprise me if I turned into a poet . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's about the time I turned into a pig ! ’ he said . |
| 30 | ‘ I walked into a door . ’ |