Example sentences of "as [pers pn] [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wondering what would happen I tried pulling up on the boom as I went into a turn . |
| 2 | We changed the front brake master cylinder and spoiled the feel of the brake : if I tried to keep braking as I went into a corner , the front wheel would lock up and I would crash . |
| 3 | We separated , and as soon as I got into a side street , I went down it and there at the bottom was Cuttle 's Bakehouse . |
| 4 | that as you move into a new form of behaviour |
| 5 | Christina 's feet slipped on the highly polished wooden floor as she flopped into an antique mahogany rocking-chair positioned in front of a big open window , affording uninterrupted views of the ocean and a cooling breeze from off the sea . |
| 6 | Spittals rubbed his forefinger across the stubble of his moustache as she flopped into an explanation . |
| 7 | The boy could feel Izzie 's body brush past him as she crawled into a corner . |
| 8 | She choked and spat out some seawater and then swallowed a lungful as she went into a spasm again . |
| 9 | A strong bond based on a frankness about his own lifestyle was formed between father and daughter as she developed into a quietly studious girl who enjoyed her excursions to visit her father at work on the film sets . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've had better tarts , ’ he said , and , walking to the door as she struggled into a sitting position , trying to restore her ruined self , for at some time she must leave the room and face her shattered world , he flung her his final insult . |
| 11 | The incident with the car had taken her mind off Luke , but as she changed into a housecoat a sudden idea flashed across her mind . |
| 12 | But someone needed her , and as she broke into a run , she went over the differential diagnosis of a faint in her mind . |
| 13 | His eyes were getting used to the dim light and , as she emerged into a whole shape under the fanlight , he was more than ever conscious of how beautiful and how youthful she was . |
| 14 | ‘ Cosier , do n't you think ? ’ she said coyly , as she slid into a chair nearest the kitchen door and gave him what he could only assume was her standard come-hither look . |
| 15 | Daisy also noticed , as she slid into an empty pew at the back , that the church was unusually full of attractive women . |
| 16 | Golden morning light bathed the apartment as she slipped into a gentle sleep . |
| 17 | I 'll announce my departure over dinner , Shiona decided , as she slipped into a pretty blue dress in her room and combed back her mane of bright auburn hair . |
| 18 | Dane softly prompted her as she lapsed into a musing silence . |
| 19 | ‘ Eyesight of a cat , ’ she muttered aloud , then immediately uttered a pained yelp as she bumped into a rough-hewn table . |
| 20 | At our local market I stocked up on walnuts , satsumas and last-minute presents of leather goods , then on Christmas Day the sun blazed down as we tucked into a roast chicken and raised glasses of cheap local champagne . |
| 21 | As we launch into a debate about last week 's Clash front cover , GW 's jaunty , surprisingly Big Country-tinged epic kind of ends , unlamented . ) |
| 22 | As we stepped into a side road , a car roared round the corner , its tyres screeching , and almost wiped both of us into oblivion . |
| 23 | Several times the steering wheel took on a wild life of its own as we crashed into an unnoticed pot-hole , and the windscreen wipers stuttered against the rain of dust and small stones that hurtled against the car in handfuls : it was if we were under fire . |
| 24 | The first creature we had seen , a small turtle , was sunning itself on a rock as we climbed into a canoe and paddled and drifted round the green-speared edge of the lake . |
| 25 | As we pile into a rented car , I express my thanks for her portraits of a city which headlines and Hollywood love to distort . |
| 26 | It matters less and less as we move into an enjoyable account derived from a vocational puller-down of statues of the Shah and his father . |
| 27 | There has to a meaningful comparison between the CAA 's charging policy and those of its EC counterparts as we move into an integrated European system . |
| 28 | He was still looking at the envelopes as they went into a sitting-room at the end of the passage . |
| 29 | The high walls of the Castelo de Sao Jorge lifted above them as they worked their way through a maze of narrow alleys and then , as they came into a small square in front of a church , Devlin emerged from an alley and crossed the cobbles before them towards a cafe . |
| 30 | this the , what makes me laugh is that people 's intelligence , they walk along a street shopping and as soon as they walk into a restaurant they sit down and start smoking |