Example sentences of "of [v-ing] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 2 | Instead of tucking into turkey and all the trimmings , they ate freeze-dried chilli — washed down with whisky and port . |
| 3 | Then she discovered he 'd gone off any idea of tucking into the delights of her home-made lasagne anyway as , without another word , he turned and headed out of the kitchen . |
| 4 | Someone , in other words , who is likely to take silk , but likely to take it at a time sufficiently far in the future to give you a chance of stepping into part of his practice as a junior . |
| 5 | Isabel paused in the act of stepping into the worn garment and met her maid 's worried brown eyes . |
| 6 | She followed him to the lift , terrified of stepping into it with him and finding it empty ! |
| 7 | English supply ships once more failed to keep up with the advance of the troops , and the Scots pursued their usual diversionary tactic of raiding into England . |
| 8 | We could stop pretending that some of us have solutions which are vastly and obviously superior to others , when we all know really that our solutions are not good enough , and in this way you would come together in creative activity instead of fragmenting into ever more divisive and destructive activities which are technically called displacement from one another |
| 9 | An American president can decide to focus on domestic policy only up to a point ; events in the wider world , leaders of other countries , have a habit of eating into time that the president thought he would spend on other things . |
| 10 | Most of all , the Chemics boss knows he must curb Goulding 's habit of wading into bother which does not concern him . |
| 11 | That there will be fierce opposition to such changes is fairly certain , and there will be vociferant arguments against them , and whilst these must be listened to , they must be allowed to have influence only if they can help in the process of bringing into being the new philosophy or religion . |
| 12 | The mounting communal disorder , on a scale unprecedented during British rule , the apparent implacability of the uncharming and uncharmable Jinnah , the tacit acceptance by this stage on the part of most of the Congress leadership of the ultimate partition of the Punjab and Bengal , made the possibility of bringing into being a genuinely united independent India appear slender indeed . |
| 13 | The triple alliance which I originally sought to conclude after the peace of Frankfurt and about which I had already sounded Vienna and St. Petersburg in September 1870 , was an alliance of the three Emperors with the further idea of bringing into it monarchical Italy . |
| 14 | Again , Aethelred was clearly much involved with a territory bordering on Mercia which he was in the process of bringing into closer dependence . |
| 15 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 16 | If , on the other hand , the teacher has it in the back of their mind always to be aware of the possibility of bringing into the work that 's going on in the classroom and bringing all they 're usually very excellent pedagogic skills to bear on it , aspects of the physical sciences , so that the children can get an early and meaningful introduction to it , then it will happen . |
| 17 | I have a new wardrobe full of clothes I could n't wear before and fit comfortably into a size 10/12 instead of struggling into a size 14 . |
| 18 | in a sense of leaping into the flames and trying to battle with it . |
| 19 | OFF-THE-PEG IDEAS FOR TURNING A BLEAK EXPANSE OF PAVING INTO AN ATTRACTIVE CENTREPIECE |
| 20 | Toiling up the slope from Falmer railway station , you had the Kafkaesque sensation of walking into an endlessly deep stage set where apparently three-dimensional objects turned out to be painted flats , and reality receded as fast as you pursued it . |
| 21 | The demonstrators ' tactic of walking into the police lines , while it was a principled assertion of their right to march , invited the violent response that followed and made further violence much more likely . |
| 22 | Some people can ‘ feel ’ the presence nearby of massive objects ; even if blindfolded they would run little risk of walking into a wall . |
| 23 | You 'll be able to get out of the car know darling , instead of climbing into the hedge wo n't you ? . |
| 24 | Erm then there would be the idea of seating into this little er ornamental circular paved area , and seating at different parts around the edges . |
| 25 | They 'd come here to learn , but it seemed all they would ever learn was how to alter that which they had no possibility of understanding into something so familiar there was no point in their understanding it . |
| 26 | These essential stages in the process involve the translation of the information into understanding , and the translation of understanding into objectives and plans for action . |
| 27 | The new Baryshnikov still dances — yes , with immaculate grace and fine co-ordination — but instead of launching into bravura virtuoso variations he applies his artistry to less spectacular works , modestly remaining very much one of a good professional team . |
| 28 | The Pope 's got more chance of gettin' pregnant than I 'ave of gettin' into the charts . |
| 29 | Conversation between brother and sister was conducted at a level of mutual aggression which stopped just short of exploding into a row . |
| 30 | Withdrawal was necessary because the American war in Vietnam appeared to the General to be on the verge of widening into a larger conflict . |