Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 2 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 3 | From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings . |
| 4 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 5 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 6 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 7 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 8 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 9 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 10 | The first hundred yards ' walking up the gill leads you into the rocky vault of Lower Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 11 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 12 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 13 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |
| 14 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 15 | Dathan and Abiram challenge Moses on the grounds of high-handedness and his failure to bring them into the promised land ( 13–14 ) . |
| 16 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 17 | Patrick followed her into the front room , his eyes taking in her home . |
| 18 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 19 | But you 've probably noticed the ad count has risen considerably in recent months , due to the fact that we 've upped the pages to five and edited out some of the waffle ( which the waffler pays for , I might add ) in order to ensure that most ads make it into the desired issue . |
| 20 | Jill nodded , standing aside to let Lindsey precede her into the small side ward . |
| 21 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 22 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 23 | Efforts to turn him into the new Olivier met a similar fate . |
| 24 | Then , with the notion of what a girl with such a name must be like firm in her mind , she made this heroine of hers arrive somewhere and without delay put her into the first of a series of conflicts with , behind them , a gradually increasing aura of mystery . |
| 25 | An ANC statement on Jan. 27 expressed regret that the PAC was controlled by hostile forces , and that efforts to bring it into the main course of the armed struggle had failed . |
| 26 | Samuel Irving — ‘ Si ’ — Newhouse jr , second-generation New York billionaire , had long been known as a collector of modern American art , but his November 1988 purchase of Jasper John 's False Start propelled him into the public consciousness . |
| 27 | The guide led her into the air-conditioned jewellery shop and held out the box to a sales assistant . |
| 28 | So important is Dublin 's goal that United 's first win of the season elevates them into the top half of the table behind reigning champions Leeds in 11th place . |
| 29 | Because each upgrade forces them into the next software price band , software also costs more . |
| 30 | In her analyses of Freud 's conception of female sexuality , she demonstrates that Freud 's view of women as lack or as absence forces them into the discursive position of the hysteric because it denies them autonomous identity and obliges them to mimic the voice of the dominant male if they wish to be heard at all ( 1974:66–71 ) . |