Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] [adv] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Laybacks and handjams have been especially efficient at suckering me into their grip only to spew me out into airborne humiliation . |
| 2 | With that she slammed the old Austin into gear , then almost as quickly put it back into neutral . |
| 3 | The second half of the verse , ‘ Gesture of orang-outang/ Rises from the sheets in steam ’ simultaneously forces us back into human prehistory , before even polyphemus , and forward into the present of Doris and Mrs Turner , since monkey evolves into human where ‘ orang-outang ’ becomes homo erectus ; yet ‘ knots of hair ’ makes the modern return to the ape , and shaving Sweeney , for all his performing the action of his namesake , the demon barber , seems as crude and brutal as the Cyclops — such is the grotesquely comic evolutionary irony of the loss of hair . |
| 4 | Cork tiles are made by compressing the bark of the cork tree into a block , and then slicing it up into thin layers . |
| 5 | They build idealised models but then carry them over into real usage as though they really existed , forgetting that they had initially involved ‘ bracketing ’ certain assumptions . |