Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.

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1 They had you by your short and curlies the minute they got you into that uniform . ’
2 When he divorced a wife he would set her up in a house of her own with her children ; and as his twenty-seven sons came to maturity he directed them into various different occupations , to ensure a spread of enterprise which would be useful to all of them .
3 And last night it got me into hot water .
4 Chiefly by digging the underlying marl and spreading it over the sandy top-soil he converted it into rich cornlands and raised the value of his Holkham estate from £5,000 to £20,000 a year within fifteen years .
5 And we gathered all this information we grouped it into those categories , admission , worship , and such like .
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