Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After nearly two centuries of grinding corn , it eventually fell into disuse in the 1860s , at which time it housed the miller and his large family . |
| 2 | Though it was a thriving concern for several centuries it eventually fell into decline and finally out of existence with the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 . |
| 3 | It soon developed into disillusion as the town 's death toll grew and ended in jubilant relief not unmixed with sorrow at the memory of towns-folk who would not return . |
| 4 | The sun was settling into the tree-tops up the line when it finally curved into view . |
| 5 | However , it gradually fell into disuse and was finally abandoned by its last users , the public notaries , in the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | The American Express Company was founded in 1850 , primarily to carry mail , gold bullion and passengers , but it gradually moved into shipping and in the 1890s set up offices in Europe 's major ports handling freight bound for the United States . |
| 7 | But it quickly bloomed into passion . |
| 8 | Labourism influenced working-class intervention in the formal political sphere through the Labour Party , but it also reached into trade unionism and determined attitudes to alternative bodies of political thought such as toryism , Marxism and fascism . |
| 9 | Cairns-Smith 's view of the DNA/protein machinery is that it probably came into existence relatively recently , perhaps as recently as three billion years ago . |
| 10 | Er , it probably came into fashion in the , something like the eighteenth century . |
| 11 | It immediately ran into trouble . |
| 12 | Arctic sunsets can last many hours ; I once watched one sun take four hours to touch the sea , and then it immediately started into reverse and rose again . |
| 13 | It then fell into disrepair , until a fund was set up to restore it . |
| 14 | It subsequently went into receivership in that same year , with estimated debts of more than £5 million . |
| 15 | Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge . |