Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond .
2 This bad feeling er lived on into old age .
3 Lived on into old age .
4 This practical involvement led naturally into five years spent as production manager at the Wandsworth factory , just before M & B moved to Dagenham in Essex in 1934 .
5 They held each other tight , so tight that it took their breath away , zipped together into one being .
6 ‘ It was not Mrs Greville 's word , ’ said Sally-Anne , goaded unwisely into further indiscretion , still trying to break free , ‘ it was your handwriting — the same that told me that I was the light of your life and that you loved me dearly . ’
7 Its breath fled outwards into snow-bright dawn and it spat Jezrael through when she would have stuck in the slit .
8 She headed away into tall grass , hid the baby and came back to the boat for the return trip to Tiger Haven .
9 WALL Street moved further into record-breaking territory yesterday , continuing a recent run which has set the scene for sharp rallies in Tokyo and Hong Kong .
10 When the harvester moved off into another field , I moved in .
11 With the nine survivors on board the lifeboat moved off into deeper water and the two men checked the vessel .
12 Although quite early in World War I both sides moved underground into elaborate trench systems , there were areas where it was not possible to dig deep trenches .
13 Meanwhile , Villa moved up into third place , level on points with Manchester United and three points adrift of Norwich .
14 During this period the spit suffered erosion on its south-west facing portion , the shingle being transported round the Ness itself and built up into new ridges on the east-facing side , where the dominant waves come from an east or north-east direction .
15 The wipers began to wheeze as the snowflakes built up into hard wedges of ice , and some of the men in the back were stamping feet on the floor of the van trying to improve their circulation .
16 Picturesque ‘ yards ’ ( courtyards ) behind the shops all too often petered out into demolished nothingness , with scraps remaining of stone walls , closed workshops , industrial debris and boarded-up cabins .
17 The mood immediately sank back into deep depression , especially in the light of the Soviet summer offensive , which had pushed as far as the Vistula , and , in August , the accelerating advance of the western allies through France .
18 And it 's that moment which , when we trace the expansion backwards , will have occurred between about fifteen and eighteen billion years ago , but we ca n't say what , if anything , may have happened before that , whether the universe bounced out into another state of expansion , so we have a sort of a cut off in our ability to retrodict , or extrapolate backwards into the past .
19 There was a light in the next window and she drew back into deep shadow .
20 Sir Terence , in particular , is still furious that inflation bounced back into double figures , after all the pain of getting it below 5% in the mid-1980s , and ascribes it to the delay in joining the EMS .
21 In January , as expected , Vaclav Havel moved back into this office when he was confirmed as President of the new Czech Republic .
22 In Ajdabiya ( where , additionally , the layout of houses was less elastic than in the south ) , the younger and educated sons of Musbah Ifkairin moved out into new houses nearby , leaving the eldest brother with their father .
23 You will be reasonably happy with all this ; you overtook even the most intelligent chickens some time ago and moved smoothly into top gear , taking a fluency in English for granted .
24 He entered forcefully into local politics , strengthening his position in the town by the purchase of properties there and allying with the enemies of the unreformed municipal corporation of Fowey .
25 It started life as a consultancy in parallel processing and then branched out into virtual reality , after seeing the potential of the technology .
26 They sank immediately into deep sleep .
27 Then I skidded and slanted through into Public Baths Surf .
28 But then you come to the problem , erm , because for ninety four five , erm , the formula suggests that we would need less staff , that might seem a bit odd but the , the reason is that if you do indeed bring your target times down , then the amount of work which your passing over into the next year is er considerably less , erm than the amount of work which you passed over into this year ,
29 As she drove home by all the familiar back roads that shortened the distance to Kileady , the shopping euphoria dropped down into black anxiety .
30 Later , she and Damian drove down into Central District to buy her engagement ring .
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