Example sentences of "[vb past] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is water , pouring troughed into a stream |
| 2 | A couple of minutes later Chatterton zimmered into the room . |
| 3 | " Does n't sound like there 's all that many of them , for an entire species " Graham grumbled into his glass . |
| 4 | The engines grumbled into silence . |
| 5 | Two had broken and egg-yolk oozed into the cracks of paving-stones . |
| 6 | Her shoes oozed into the ground and , as the breeze sliced through her light coat , she shivered . |
| 7 | Sometimes the blood oozed into great black puddles over which huge swarms of flies hovered . |
| 8 | I 've changed the mental image of the cancer from the multi-headed dragon to football-sized balloons full of water — unfortunately there are millions of them , all over , some clustered into piles beneath the lumps on my body . |
| 9 | Members of certain ethnic and caste groups clustered into specific occupations . |
| 10 | " A multitude of pillars and white domes , clustered into a long low pyramid of coloured light . " |
| 11 | Inevitably , television 's influence seeped into movies . |
| 12 | On concrete roads the abandonment of ministry research on water leaks coincided with substantial problems after water seeped into the joints . |
| 13 | The programme highlighted the importance of providing an effective ‘ vapour barrier ’ ( usually a skin of plastic sheeting ) behind the internal plasterboard surface — if moisture from inside the home seeped into the cavity it could rot the timber frame . |
| 14 | Sweat seeped into his eyes . |
| 15 | As the death toll mounted , and the futility of the war of attrition on the Western Front seeped into public consciousness , the pacifists moved onto the offensive . |
| 16 | ‘ Autobahn ’ seeped into the ears of a pre-punk generation to emerge , fully formed , in the 1980s as electro-pop and avant-garde synth music . |
| 17 | Salt from the floors of these buildings seeped into the surrounding sub-soil and was drawn up by capillary action through the stones and mortar of the church . |
| 18 | The colour seeped into Topaz 's cheeks and Lovat raised his eyebrows . |
| 19 | Everywhere the land and its concerns seeped into town-life : the towns of the south had agricultural suburbs inhabited by day labourers hired in the square by the bailiffs of the great estates . |
| 20 | The cold seeped into her muscles and she could n't stop shaking but she would n't look up too soon and betray Ember who was good to her . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | Colour seeped into the scene like turning up the control on TV . |
| 23 | Inevitably , in time , some of the progressive ideas being put forward seeped into public consciousness . |
| 24 | Street lighting seeped into the tiny landing from an open door so at least some curtains were undrawn and he dare n't use the torch . |
| 25 | Ice formed in her branches , seeped into the wounds in her body , expanded and cracked her . |
| 26 | It seeped into the nearby River Lyd , and thousands of fish , insects and other wildlife died along a six mile stretch . |
| 27 | It took 11 firemen almost half an hour to bring the blaze under control and bingo players had to be evacuated as smoke seeped into the auditorium of the Mecca Social Club , next door . |
| 28 | One-and-a-bit pence per mile does n't sound much , but multiplied into billions , even trillions , of user-miles , it is a rich seam of gold for cash-strapped governments . |
| 29 | Where it ran into the special ceramic-and-leather codpiece that it tailored into most of my tights and leggings , a useful protection in many situations . |
| 30 | I MOSEYED into the NME offices bearing a still-throbbing psychic wound and a mittful of rejection letters . |