Example sentences of "[vb past] into [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a reasonable dinner : watercress soup , steak with a peppercorn sauce , a shared bottle of Barolo and insipid conversation , I excused myself and sank into oblivion for ten hours . |
| 2 | I did n't sleep at all until , one daybreak , I sank into unconsciousness for several hours . |
| 3 | Tait twitched , as though at the end of an invisible wire , and his dead eyes flickered into life for a moment . |
| 4 | ‘ I quickly realised the size of my task when I drove into York for home games , ’ says Ward . |
| 5 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 6 | Micky Stewart , the England manager , said : ‘ Gooch , Phil DeFreitas , Phil Tufnell and Alec Stewart all came into consideration for the award — but Robin is a batsman I 'd pay money to watch . ’ |
| 7 | The lane came into existence for this special purpose not later than the tenth century : in no other way can we explain its peculiar and limited course . |
| 8 | Similar acrobatics came into play for the last episode of the seven-part series , a forty-five-minute Christmas special in which Frank learns to fly . |
| 9 | However , 45% of the men in out sample said that none of these practices came into foreplay for them . |
| 10 | It came into force for those states which had ratified it in 1953 . |
| 11 | Smallfry had told him that a body had recently been dumped at the tunnel entrance where the beck came into view for several yards before vanishing again into the darkness below ground . |
| 12 | Then the bans on the cull grenade , released at the same time , came into effect for all species of whales . |
| 13 | A new standard known as FAS107 came into effect for banks ' 1992 accounts . |
| 14 | At Fourstones , north-east of Haydon Bridge , a wheel house adjoins the engine house built to replace it when steam engines came into use for threshing . |
| 15 | To begin with the system was used by chroniclers , then for specifying the dates on which fairs were held or rent payments due , and finally , in the thirteenth century , it came into use for dating letters and other documents . |
| 16 | It had its Arcadian examples — like all revolutions it dug into antiquity for help and respectability and dynamic metaphors — and Mary could be seen , that morning , in woods as sun-speckled as a thrush 's throat , as a shepherdess from the Hellenic world , a Grace from their pagan earth-suckled legends , but above all a spirit of the place . |
| 17 | I got up and you know I swear I turned into Firmin for a moment and I said , ‘ Listen , Our Lady of Communications , I shall write and you will transmit as many fucking letters per day as I happen to feel like writing . ’ |
| 18 | The Yen-Bay mutiny did not , as it was intended , form part of a co-ordinated attack on the French position in Vietnam and in the event it turned into disaster for the VNQDD . |
| 19 | The church 's numerous middle-of-the-roaders are concerned : although the charismatic movement tends to be pro-women ( the new Archbishop of Canterbury got into trouble for saying it was a ‘ heresy ’ to suggest that women should not conduct services ) , it is also anti-abortion , anti-homosexual and preoccupied with the devil . |
| 20 | Quite a lot of PCs got into trouble for that sort of thing , ‘ being reported for neglect of duty ’ , ‘ failing to keep the premises secure ’ . |
| 21 | I got ‘ crimed ’ for it , got into trouble for not searching it . |
| 22 | ( He was courting a friend and fellow student of mine , and used to fly low over the village and perform aerobatics to show his love for her until he got into trouble for it . ) |
| 23 | He was one of the first to produce high-intensity electric light from arc lamps taking current from dynamos ( 1865 ) , which he developed into searchlights for the Royal Navy ( 1874 ) ; after the Titanic disaster in 1912 he strongly urged that mercantile vessels should be fitted with searchlights . |
| 24 | On Feb. 25 the Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Vellayati flew into Baku for talks with both sides as a prelude to mediation . |
| 25 | Today the four Boyz whose single is at no. 4 in our chart , flew into Britain for their first ever performance here , with their front-man Michael McCary insists that it will never turn him into a snob . |
| 26 | On 3 June I flew into Madrid for a big invitation meeting . |
| 27 | In the media , the message quickly telescoped into Vote for Dukakis or … and here the message tended to become diffuse and difficult : or what ? |
| 28 | All these skills God called into play for the construction of his tabernacle . |
| 29 | A recent first visit to the USSR brought into focus for me the large question of evaluating music whose basis of appeal is grounded in extra-musical circumstances . |
| 30 | In 1839 , Playne and Smith were still producing cloth ; then , after nearly two centuries of woollen cloth manufacture , Egypt Mill fell into disuse for a number of years . |