Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] [be] [verb] [adv prt] into " in BNC.

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1 Chemistry in turn , even ‘ organic chemistry ’ , was considerably more advanced than the life-sciences , which just seemed to be taking off into an era of exciting progress .
2 ‘ No , ’ Ashley said , beginning to feel flustered by what seemed to be shaping up into another interrogation .
3 People who wanted information from him were noting his silence and making their judgments accordingly ; his life seemed to be funnelling down into a pit like so much waste water , and yet he could n't stir himself to the right kind of action .
4 The characterizations consisted of being rolled up into a sphere by Willie , or swung by one arm , or aimed at a dartboard while wearing a trick suction device on his head .
5 BL came to rely on large cash hand-outs and subsidies , and eventually had to be cut down into its constituent elements and returned to the private sector .
6 The wards were crowded and even in mid-winter very sick babies had to be wheeled out into the open air to get from one part of the hospital to another .
7 They had to be wooed back into the workforce because , with a shortfall of school-leavers , the British economy would be on its knees without them .
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