Example sentences of "that [vb past] into the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Several hundred yards away , Riessa was in a strange humour as she strode down the worn steps that led into the hollow heart of the Wyrmberg , followed by half a dozen Riders .
2 He turned and went down the four steps that led into the long , dark , low-ceilinged dining room , returning a moment later with a book from the shelves .
3 She had reached the top of the narrow wooden stairs that led into the single upper-storey chamber she shared with her mother .
4 There was no understanding here of my intentions in a body of work that ventured into the unfashionable field of Romanticism , an exaggeratedly retinal approach , at a time when Concept Art was the rage .
5 It was the relatively long period of life from birth to the end of physical dependence on the parents that built into the human being , an eradicable awareness of his vulnerability and a deeply-rooted instinctive expectation that his needs will be met from a source outside himself .
6 In his ‘ Small History of Photography ’ , Benjamin ( 1979a , p. 248 ) notes that in photography 's early mid-nineteenth-century days , ‘ the client ’ who came to be photographed was ‘ the member of a rising class equipped with an aura that seeped into the very folds of the man 's frock coat or floppy cravat ’ , but that the later ‘ imperialist bourgeoisie ’ lost its aura in its ‘ deepening degeneration ’ , its Jugendstil photos featuring a fashionable ‘ twilight ’ and a ‘ non-auratic pose ’ .
7 He stood up , his deep blue glance moving over her in a slow appraisal that burned into the very pores of her skin , and she realised , in those few heart-stopping moments , what a mistake it had been to confront him .
8 His ‘ act as if you own the place ’ approach seemed to work , and he made it to the double doors that opened into the main tunnel complex , not even pausing as he attached a circuit board to a second brick and casually tossed it into the heart of the pile of drums on the dock nearby .
9 The social reformers who staffed the think tanks that fed into the right wing of the Conservative Party and who advocated the restructuring of education , the dismantling of the welfare state and the restriction of local government power , needed a theme through which to proselytise their views .
10 Stockwell said some 50 Rangers , from the 400-strong elite unit that flew into the anarchic city two weeks ago , moved on the building during the night .
11 In exchange I had a view over the wide , flat-bottomed valley , a view that dissolved into the fish-fin ridge on the far side .
12 In 1958 William Burroughs had moved to Paris , where Allen Ginsberg had helped set up the ‘ Beat Hotel ’ that persisted into the early 1960s .
13 Since the antimatter particle did not have any existence before , the Universe has received an injection of extra energy ; on the other hand , it has lost the energy of the particle that fell into the black hole , so things seem to have evened themselves out .
14 It would have had a beginning in the big bang , about fifteen billion years ago , and it would come to an end for a star that collapsed and for anything that fell into the black hole the collapsing star left behind .
15 She gathered her masks and stepped towards the hollowing , fighting against the gale that blew into the quieter realm of the marsh .
16 He opened the door that gave into the extended cupboard under the roof .
17 Working independently , they found a chemical in the body that fitted into the same receptor as heroin ; Dr Kosterlitz named it ‘ endorphin ’ .
18 Now she stood at the gate of Ten-acre Pasture , staring across the hedgetops to the control tower that jutted into the gentle landscape with angular obscenity , begging silently that when she turned the corner he would be there .
19 There is intense speculation that the massive cloud of dust and debris that shot into the upper atmosphere last April when the Mexican volcano , the El Chichon erupted may be to blame .
20 The large crowd that crammed into the new men 's toilets at COLDALE TROJANS ground last month were disappointed that guests of honour , the Nolan Sisters , failed to turn up for the opening .
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