Example sentences of "it [adv] [vb past] into [noun] " 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 suddenly flashed into Jack 's mind that this must be Ho , Mr Chan 's son — the boy he had been asked to protect and whose existence he had virtually forgotten in the confusion of events .
4 I lunged for the computer which contained my first four hard-laboured chapters , and it literally burst into flames at my touch .
5 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 .
6 It soon ran into problems .
7 It was built successfully but two attempts to emulate and balance it soon ran into difficulties .
8 The sun was settling into the tree-tops up the line when it finally curved into view .
9 However , it gradually fell into disuse and was finally abandoned by its last users , the public notaries , in the sixteenth century .
10 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 .
11 But it quickly bloomed into passion .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 Er , it probably came into fashion in the , something like the eighteenth century .
15 Moreover it inevitably ran into difficulties and criticism in the early 1980s when the American economy was in serious trouble — with a steep rise in oil prices and no agreement on how to conserve energy , and with inflation , unemployment and interest rates all running at a high level .
16 It immediately ran into trouble .
17 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 .
18 It then fell into disrepair , until a fund was set up to restore it .
19 It subsequently went into receivership in that same year , with estimated debts of more than £5 million .
20 Some obscure threat needled her ; Jezrael could n't stop worrying at it but it never burst into knowledge .
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