Example sentences of "and [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 7.00 a.m. : rise from a bed in an open dormitory shared with five or six other girls ; 7.30 : breakfast , followed by bedmaking ; 8.30 : early morning lacrosse practice or running round the lake ; 9.00 : chapel ; 9.20 : three periods of lessons or prep ; 11.20 : break for buns and milk ; 11.40 : two periods of lessons or prep ; 1.00 : lunch ; 1.40 approximately : a house meeting in which each of thirty-six girls had to inform the housemistress of her activities for the afternoon , and other house business was discussed ; 2.00 : lacrosse ( tennis , cricket , running ) or , if the weather was bad , country dancing , or , with luck , a shampoo ; 3.20 : wash and change into non-uniform clothes ; 3.45 : tea ; 4.00 : four periods of lessons or prep ; 6.40 : house prayers ; 7.00 : supper ; 8.00 or 8.30 , depending on age : half an hour to be spent in chitchat with the housemistress in her room ; 8.30 or 9.00 : bathtime followed by bedtime . |
| 2 | Black silhouettes move out of the darkness and change into blunt torpedoes , dark and slow-moving as they glide over the sandy bottom . |
| 3 | Then , on some mysterious cue , they emerge simultaneously from the soil and change into winged adults . |
| 4 | Eleven such triple junctions , each possibly associated with a separate hot spot , have been identified on the continental part of the African Plate and an intriguing problem is the way in which they may subsequently promote continental rupture and develop into spreading centres . |
| 5 | THE images of the mind are the emotions like tears forming and crystallising into brilliant coloured pictures . |
| 6 | Then he turned and translated into Imperial Gothic : |
| 7 | Venerated by the Greeks and Romans , educated to Apollo and formed into leafy crowns for poets and triumphant generals , sweet bay is the source of the term " bachelor " for academic honours , from the Roman bacca laureus , laurel berry . |
| 8 | It was bulky and rotund at the base and tapered into slender points at the top . |
| 9 | 1 large lettuce , cabbage or Webbs , washed and dried 4 large tomatoes , ripe but firm , quartered 3 hard-boiled eggs , shelled and quartered 1 × 200g/7oz can tuna fish , drained and broken into large pieces 125g/4oz black olives 1 × 50g/2oz can anchovy fillets , drained 275g/10oz green beans , blanched and drained 6 × 15ml/tbsp vinaigrette ( see p31 ) 2 × 15ml/tbsp freshly chopped parsley |
| 10 | 200 soldiers in 60 armoured personnel carriers crossed Friendship Bridge on the Oxus river and passed into Soviet Uzbekistan . |
| 11 | That said , if it is configured to use Expanded memory and load into High Memory , it interferes with much less conventional memory . |
| 12 | Now inflation 's very low at the moment , but if inflation took off again and got into double figures , then not only would your pensions suffer , but your bills would go up as well . |
| 13 | Protective designation is therefore likely to be needed for sometime to come , and will need both strengthening and transforming into positive schemes of practical management . |
| 14 | As Christmas and birthdays brought more Gortex , my confidence grew and developed into mild snootiness about people who did n't wear the right things on the hill . |
| 15 | Later , it was taken up by the communications industry and developed into worldwide markets . |
| 16 | Hooligans often take care to evade police escorts and to slip into rival territories unobserved . |
| 17 | With infinite delicacy forget-me-nots and rosebuds , croci and oak leaves are chiselled out of native lime ( grown in the grounds of the palace itself ) and slotted into ancient floral compositions which , but for a discarded cigarette in the grace and favour flats above , could perhaps have remained undisturbed for the next 300 years . |
| 18 | Aged eighty-four , he left the plantation where he was born and moved into nearby Montgomery , Alabama . |
| 19 | They 'd fallen out and the Baroness had left their mansion and moved into modest rented accomodation at Docklow near Hereford . |
| 20 | It pulled out of mining and consumer electronics , and moved into medical equipment . |
| 21 | Not unexpectedly , this officer left the police and moved into academic life . |
| 22 | It reproduces by releasing single-celled spores which drift off in the sea and grow into new plants . |
| 23 | She said there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called … bromeliads , I think , and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and once you know the world is full of things like that your life is never the same . ’ |
| 24 | And there 's these hills where it 's hot and rains all the time , and in the rain forests there are these very tall trees and right in the top branches of the trees there are these like great big flowers called bromeliads and water gets into the flowers and makes little pools and there 's a type of frog that lays eggs in the pools and tadpoles hatch and grow into new frogs and these little frogs live their whole lives in the flowers right at the top of the trees and do n't even know about the ground and the world is full of things like that and now I know about them and I 'm never ever going to be able to see them and then you , ’ she gulped for breath , ‘ want me to come and live with you in a hole and wash your socks ! ’ |
| 25 | For the ground about him , with its padding of last year 's thick leaf-fall sodden and trodden into soft pulp , showed no disturbance , but lay moist , dark and flat , unmarked by any convulsions of his feet or arms , or any trampling of an assailant round him . |
| 26 | Return along drive past points where it was joined earlier and descend into minor valley with pool on left , turning right onto another track as soon as drive starts to ascend again . |
| 27 | It is as if the molecules that form the flowers and leaves have been twisted and re-assembled into lovely globes , the nurseries of these insects . |
| 28 | Drop corks , stones , shells , pieces of coal , wood and sponge into various depths of water . |
| 29 | It is there that the most ordinary-seeming ingredients can be re-ordered and re-energised into extraordinary explosions of personality . |
| 30 | Its greatest literary monuments are the sequence of French prose tales from the thirteenth century about King Arthur , known as the Vulgate Cycle and transposed into English only in highly compressed form by Sir Thomas Malory ; and the later Italian epics about the knights of Charlemagne , Boiardo 's Orlando Innamorato , ‘ Roland in Love , and Ariosto 's Orlando Furioso , ‘ Roland Run Mad ’ , imitated in English by Spenser 's The Faerie Queene . |