Example sentences of "in to a " in BNC.

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1 There are occasions during which you turn away from the opponent , but these are deliberate and short-lived , leading in to a particular technique .
2 Turning its wrecked agenda in to a benefit , this film presented four brief lives , with Tianamen as merely one event .
3 Sachin Tendulkar came in to a reception whose volume and pitch tended to confirm what Bishen Bedi had been saying about his sex appeal , and there was the arresting sight of a 41-year-old bowler taking on two batsmen whose combined age was 42 .
4 SOME years ago , the poets Hugh MacDiarmid and Basil Bunting dropped in to a bar in Moffat , Dumfriesshire .
5 But she had done it in a very peculiar way : she had booked in to a private Well Woman Clinic under an assumed name .
6 He had offered to take them to the local dressmaker 's to have them seamed in to a more fashionable line , but Gina would n't even let him do that .
7 SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone .
8 He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest .
9 Black pepper is a proper and good inclusion , because stirring it in to a hot dish a few minutes before serving releases wonderful flavour .
10 Real business remained very slack and , with Wall Street heading south in the afternoon , the Footsie slipped in to a 2404.2 point close , up 3.3 .
11 A cautious opening in New York produced a further round of price-cutting in the afternoon and , with investors setting off early for the Easter break , the Footsie drifted in to a 2638.6 point close , down 1.6 on the day .
12 What Nicky discovered is that responding to God is an act of submission — of giving in to a force much more powerful than our own .
13 The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city .
14 In Milan the victims and suspected victims — and it is hard to believe that non-sufferers ever survived being suspected sufferers — were herded in to a custom-built enclosure .
15 The silly bitch really could n't see that there was anything dubious about turning your daughter in to a pin-up .
16 Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint .
17 Bob Bennett , Grenadier Guards , was one of those frustrated warriors who were called in to a large marquee .
18 And indeed he would , very shortly , be going in to a great , gaping hole in the community .
19 As Henry signs the new treaty at the French court , the camera moves in to a close-up as he recalls the faces of the people who have been friends to him in more dissolute days , and have now followed him into battle .
20 In a public library authority this can require all titles from all service points to be called in to a central point and their condition checked and compared .
21 She , still thrilled with the beauty of the world , refused to go until at last , angered , her father used his powers of enchantment to put the giants into a deep sleep and turned his daughter Tamara in to a silver flowing stream .
22 Radiation emitted by the electron is transformed back to the laboratory frame , and is concentrated in to a narrow cone around the forward direction ( c ) , generating a ( Doppler ) frequency upshift ( γ ) .
23 Experience with rural advice in the north east area has shown that telephone advisers become skilled at solving basic problems over the phone and recognising those where the client needs to come in to a bureau for in-depth advice .
24 Imagine you have just moved in to a new flat .
25 But as I became more acquainted with this set and stopped rushing from impossible passage to impossible passage , hoping against hope that at some point he would lose his balance and tumble like a second-rate trapeze artist off his swing , I was unwittingly dragged in to a more sinister , melancholic side to his playing .
26 I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London .
27 Always stay calm and do not allow others to drag you in to a conflict of personalities .
28 Never give in to a bully . ’
29 While the lucky 30 guinea pigs in Bruno 's experiment were sampling his alternative dishes , the other pupils were tucking in to a typical school dinner of beefburger in a bap , sautee potatoes and jacket potato in cheese , or open sandwiches .
30 Another is to reduce the proportion of dark background area relative to the subject , either by shifting to a more suitable setting or by moving in to a bigger close-up so that the dark background is reduced in size .
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