Example sentences of "[to-vb] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Demons are real , I believe , but the moment we try to literalise them — describe their shape and detail their habits — we tend to slip into fantasy . |
| 2 | The Chancellor , Nigel Lawson , insisted yesterday that the economy was unlikely to slip into recession because of higher base rates as long as UK companies controlled their costs . |
| 3 | Spiro was earning £13,000 a month but had begun to slip into debt . |
| 4 | But the A-level student , who wants to be a doctor , ran into trouble when one event bombed and he began to slip into debt , owing hundreds of pounds . |
| 5 | Unless the working classes were caught up in the new sectarian movements of Protestantism ( which were themselves a reaction and response to modernity ) , they were liable to slip into unbelief . |
| 6 | He was expected to slip into management with ease , but instead Moore moved into business , running a pub . |
| 7 | She did n't go as far as to say a nice warm man to slip into bed with , but that was not far from her mind . |
| 8 | But a snag is that the fibre requires an optoelectronic converter where the subscriber wants to plug into cable . |
| 9 | Eventing horses are required to jump into water showjumpers MUST NOT ! |
| 10 | She is in usual house attire … white blouse open at front , with large breasts ready to jump into view , no frock or dress , but long blue bloomers elasticated at waist and at knee ends . |
| 11 | Without a lemon to squeeze on to fried or grilled fish , no lemon juice to sharpen the flatness of the dried pulses — the red lentils , the split peas — which in those days loomed so largely in our daily diet , no lemon juice to help out the stringy ewe-mutton and the ancient boiling fowls of the time , no lemon juice for pancakes , no peel to grate into cake mixtures and puddings , we felt frustrated every time we opened a cookery book or picked up a mixing bowl . |
| 12 | If self-examination is not to deteriorate into introspection or be ignored we need wise guides with whom to articulate the inner movement of our spirits and the outer movement of our lives . |
| 13 | Spilling the knots from one 's entrails out onto paper is n't likely to make a poem or story that others will want to read , but many writers do have to go through the ‘ spilling ’ process in order to know just what it is they have to hammer into shape . |
| 14 | Always the true internationalist , Hitler 's advent was her signal to pitch into refugee work . |
| 15 | I was n't too shy to leap into bed with them , but I was too shy to tell them what I needed . ’ |
| 16 | Which does n't mean I intend to leap into bed with you just because fate washed you up on my beach . |
| 17 | Her body seemed to leap into overdrive . |
| 18 | This inner life is projected as a theatre for the right direction of energy : the soul in temptation is ready to leap into pride , indeed the devil himself is seen as a leaper constantly alert to seize his chance to get hold of the direction of man 's life . |
| 19 | But if the physical violence that Dick Francis writes of so well , without glorying in it , without dismissing it in the way cruder writers do as they allow a hero to leap into action after some terrible beating-up if this does not fire your imagination you can still write suspense novels that will satisfy readers every bit as well . |
| 20 | Let someone else do the driving this week while you take a back seat ; the time to leap into action and seize control has n't yet arrived . |
| 21 | A detective-constable was standing at the front door with the detached watchfulness of a man paid to endure boredom but ready to leap into action should , unaccountably , the boredom end . |
| 22 | Steven dreams of driving his car swiftly and effortlessly over thrilling lanes and highways … not realizing how Saturday will come , no present bought for Pervert and Queen , will have to leap into car , 11.08 Saturday morning , claw through Saturday traffic to near place of work , double-park car , run into weathered antique shop , snatch slightly unsuitable rococo frame from shelf , pay with desperate ACCESS he was trying to cut down on , emerge , tear ticket from windscreen , drive recklessly home , fling frame at Claire , discover best shirt in fact dirty and get to wedding with three minutes to spare … |
| 23 | But it was surely more than a matter of stylistic fashion which prompted the Jesuit scholar Fr J. H. Pollen to preface his very useful collection of sources for the Babington Plot of 1586 , designed to kill Elizabeth , published in 1922 , with statements such as ‘ The interest attaching to Queen Mary 's wonderful personality is so great , that when she is taken away , all else seems to fade into insignificance . ’ |
| 24 | A pattern of parishes , as we know it , took centuries to come into existence anywhere in Europe . |
| 25 | The organisation is due to come into existence in July next year . |
| 26 | Soon the archosaurs became distinctly superior to the reptiles , paving the way for bipedal loco-motion and , later , for similarly structured mammals with a more efficient heart and metabolism to come into existence . |
| 27 | A year or two later , expanding on her analysis , Iris Murdoch dubbed the journalistic novel ‘ loose and cheerful ’ , adding gaily that she was inclined to start writing a novel in the hope that ‘ a lot of people who are not me are going to come into existence in some wonderful way ’ — though frustrated , sometimes , by the prevailing theoretical power of her own philosophical mind . |
| 28 | In short , a European parliament still had to come into existence . |
| 29 | FC/Open is expected to come into existence sometime next year in support of efforts to standardise high-speed fiber channel interconnects . |
| 30 | He drew an analogy with pre-incorporation contracts in domestic law , and concluded that similar agreements could be made in international law on behalf of States which are about to come into existence . |