Example sentences of "i [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Being the only Leeds fan in a London inner city school with Alan Clarks famous speach about bring Success to Leeds in 3 Years , is causing me to go into cold shivers and giving me a pessimistic mood about the new season , I can still remember the years of telling school friends at the end of each season that we are rebuilding and that we would come up the next season . |
| 2 | These proposals and many more formed the basis of legislation following the 1987 general election — as too did the model report from Dame Mary Warnock that I commissioned into human fertilization and embryology . |
| 3 | The way I got into national radio from local radio was listening to programmes and thinking , ‘ I could interview X , and I could get it into that programme , if I could do it in that format . ’ |
| 4 | In the course of time I moved into other , larger rooms ; the last had a splendid view of Windsor Castle . |
| 5 | Then I moved into worried . |
| 6 | Margaret 's mini was passed soaring up hills , so I changed into low gear and closed the windows so as not to be suffocated by diesel fumes . |
| 7 | I wandered into dusty , pungent shops selling live chickens , and dried snakes for rubbing into bruises . |
| 8 | I get into impossible scrapes but win through in the end . |
| 9 | And then a great wave breaks over me and I emerge into full consciousness . |
| 10 | Wine-numbed and bloated , I lapse into silent recapitulation of what has brought us here . |
| 11 | I broke into violent tears at this point , I remember , and flew upstairs to turn out his drawers , looking for socks with holes in them . |
| 12 | I switched into listening mode : |
| 13 | I can realise my stock and pay twenty bob in the pound if I go into voluntary liquidation now , before Masters of Notts gets deeper into trouble . |
| 14 | So I went into Irish pubs . |
| 15 | I went into New Look and they had some lovely things in there this morning ! |
| 16 | Erm I went into residential social work first , erm but that was after twenty years of teaching erm in various parts of the country , I was in , Bradford , and then I spent seven years in Africa , where I also erm was a teacher , and when I came back from Africa , I was asked if I would just replace someone that was going on a course , in a residential er the mother and baby home it was actually . |
| 17 | I thrust into rough grass and smoothly penetrated your loamy depths . |
| 18 | Occasionally he finds a transcendence of ardour , an equilibrium beyond desire — ‘ the disappearance of desire and the renunciation of everything ’ , a time innocent of hours , a perfect inoccupation in which boredom becomes impossible , a coming to life which is a loss of consciousness : ‘ I dissolve , I evaporate into blue air ’ ; a being alive in a world where ‘ death itself is less difficult ’ ( pp. 101 , 105 , 107 , 111 ) . |
| 19 | Yolanda was a spotty , bespectacled girl from Barcelona who spent her time translating every word I said into Spanish for the benefit of Garcia , a missing-link anthropoid from one of your immediate neighbours . |
| 20 | ‘ He started going on again about me going into mainstream journalism , how a friend of his had contacts in Fleet Street , why the hell did n't I grow up and settle down like normal girls , why did I go around with Jake . |