Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] [pers pn] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That some compositors , and not only on the committee , took a more sympathetic view of the problem is suggested by one writer to the STC , as far back as 1886 , whose attitude seems with hindsight to be the most constructive approach voiced by an Edinburgh man : that the women be treated seriously as colleagues and an attempt made to integrate them into the cultural world of the compositor from which they were decidedly excluded : A trade female society should be organised , having in connection a sick etc. fund ; a reading-room provided with illustrated and comic papers and magazines ; a library of high-class light literature chiefly and encyclopedias , dictionaries etc. : and an efficient committee to arrange for a grand picnic every summer and social gatherings in winter evenings . |
| 2 | The gale threatened to blow her into the water . |
| 3 | Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director . |
| 4 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |
| 5 | ‘ The vessel , from Bangor Marina , was half-sunk , but the Hummer and the lifeboat managed to tow it into the harbour and beach it on a mud bank , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 6 | They all looked blowsy , lipsticky and desperate , locked in a fight with a life set to trample them into the barroom floor , a series of no-account boyfriends too free with their fists and guns , and an incipient obesity that would limit their later careers to shrill mother roles . |
| 7 | When my children attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started to devise a list of silly museums — corn plasters of the world , Peruvian nose flutes , or some such other daft idea . |
| 8 | Wi , Joan wanted to take it into the party the other night they would n't let her . |