Example sentences of "[vb pp] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he may be planning to sell , in which case he can risk a dinner party without being trapped into intimacy . |
| 2 | If allowed to remain this waste matter will eventually get trapped into pockets by fibres deep in your skin leading to the familiar spongy , dimpled skin texture known as cellulite . |
| 3 | It is important to be open and not be trapped into promises which will have to be broken later . |
| 4 | She was not to be trapped into suspicion again ; if he knew his power so well that his presence was unnecessary , that was enough for her . |
| 5 | No doubt voices will be raised in support of such measures , but I must urge the Secretary of State not to be hustled into steps that can only aggravate the situation . |
| 6 | The religious police ( mutawa ) were recently pricked into action by the horrifying sight of Saudi women demonstrating for the right to drive . |
| 7 | When had he ever had to be pricked into action before ? |
| 8 | In their ninth round , the talks in Washington may have limped into phase two . |
| 9 | For very young children our Multivitamin Liquid can be mixed into milk or diluted fruit juice , or simply given on a spoon . |
| 10 | The intensity of the colour achieved is also much greater , as the shades become of necessity slightly diluted when mixed into icing . |
| 11 | fresh or dried leaf , in a sauce or jelly to accompany roast meats , and rubbed on to meat before grilling or roasting ; with salads , mixed into cheeses , in summer drinks , as part of bouquet garni , and mixed herbs , in chutney |
| 12 | The development of industrial capitalism came later and more quickly ; there were continuing influxes of working-class immigrants from ‘ backward ’ parts of Europe ; in the South , isolated rural-proletarian and quasi-feudal cultures persisted ; the vitality of a ‘ popular-bourgeois ’ culture , embracing workers and higher social strata , continued into the twentieth century , when European equivalents were long dead or distorted into passivity . |
| 13 | Their faces are often distorted into gargoyle shapes that appear hideous to us until we see them for what they are , exquisitely fashioned instruments for beaming ultrasound in desired directions . |
| 14 | Frighteningly , the whole fabric of her being was distorted into shades of midnight and lightnings of pain sheathed every nerve in her body . |
| 15 | He lifted his head , but still without looking at me ; his huge hands were clenched into fists . |
| 16 | She advanced on Maybelle , her hands clenched into fists , as she had advanced on her little brothers , sometimes seriously , sometimes in play . |
| 17 | He walked away , his whole body rigid with tension , his hands clenched into fists , his face like a mask . |
| 18 | Paul took a threatening step forward , then paused , his big hands clenched into fists of rage . |
| 19 | His hands clenched into fists . |
| 20 | What seemed a daunting quantity of hard male muscle clenched into action as he sat up and swung his long legs to the ground . |
| 21 | After casting about in vain for several minutes to pick up their quarry 's lost line , their frustration had abated into impatience and Satan had led the pack off in the direction of the tree-line to the westward . |
| 22 | As with any other graphics card , the drivers for the NT must be installed into Windows , which is done from the Windows Setup program . |
| 23 | So , it is far safer for the child in your car if , even though the law does not require it , rear seat belts or restraints are specially installed into cars where they have not been automatically fitted from new . |
| 24 | His ‘ Caesar ’ hair-cut was brilliantined into kiss-curls framing a face that had nasty carved all over it , and rumour had it that people who crossed him were never seen again . |
| 25 | If the world 's 1984 stockpile of nuclear weapons were compressed into bombs of the size dropped on Hiroshima , it would take 4,600 years to go through them all if they were let off at the rate of one a day . |
| 26 | Snow falling on the mountain sides gathered in hollows and was compressed into ice . |
| 27 | The report also says that Intel is to release a revision of its Indeo video compression technology , which is claimed to increase compression ratios fivefold over the current version ( enabling one minute of video to be compressed into 1Mb of data ) . |
| 28 | These expansions are compressed into booms , followed by slumps , over the fifty-year cycles because innovations are bunched into compressed periods . |
| 29 | When the soil expands again in spring the contents of the cracks are compressed into wedges . |
| 30 | Abrasive pads : These are random nylon fibres coated with adhesive to which abrasive particles are bonded with the whole being compressed into sheets and cut to size . |