Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [pos pn] [noun] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Then I 'd better get my ass into gear .
2 ( 3 ) The GDR , taking into consideration the foreign trade relations that have evolved with the member countries of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance [ Comecon ] , shall progressively bring its policy into line with the law and the economic policy goals of the European Communities …
3 This selection of foods will soon bring your fish into breeding condition .
4 The court stated that reasonable parents will not send their children into danger without protection and that both the parents and the occupier must act reasonably .
5 There is nothing more certain than that Zacco will not send his friend into danger .
6 Firstly , although some of the schemes were designed for staff right across further education , they were attracting only a handful of teachers of vocational subjects , while the remaining schemes did not take their needs into account at all .
7 Examples would be : where the act is not seen , as when the victim is asleep ; where the victim believes that the gun was unloaded ( Lamb [ 1967 ] 2 QB 981 ) ; where the victim knows by the accused 's words that the threat will not take place ( Tuberville v Savage ( 1669 ) 86 ER 684 ; or where the accused could not put his threat into effect : the usual illustrations are shaking a fist while on a non-stop train at a person standing on the platform and doing the same to a person standing on the opposite bank of a fast-flowing and wide river where there is no bridge .
8 So , too , similar ‘ home industries ’ of women in the towns do not find their way into occupation statistics .
9 What guarantees can the Minister provide that other metal objects can not find their way into prison in the way in which that did and disappear as it did ?
10 Industrial chemicals such as volatile organochlorine compounds can also find their way into groundwater , with serious implications for its quality .
11 ‘ Parents , do n't goad your children into resentment . ’
12 As Mary and I waved goodbye to him , I thought that I would n't put his advice into practice quite yet .
13 I th , you know when you 're sitting there and ca n't click your brain into gear ?
14 They could either follow their husbands into battle , taking their children with them , or they could stay at home , unprotected and unsupported and wait for the pillaging Parliamentarians or the papist Royalists to capture them and confiscate their property .
15 ‘ Good morning ! ’ she offered , but felt suddenly so light-hearted , she could n't believe she had but minutes earlier been so cross , and went quickly to her room to hurriedly get her hairdrier into action .
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