Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 2 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 3 | It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES . |
| 4 | Guinness Mahon , a British merchant bank 65%-owned by Bank of Yokohama , gave warning that bad debts will plunge it into an after-tax loss of £35m ( $67m ) for the six months to March 31st . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 6 | Retirement , when it comes , hits these people unnecessarily hard , and can propel them into a downward spiral of lethargy and depression , leading to premature death . |
| 7 | Jill nodded , standing aside to let Lindsey precede her into the small side ward . |
| 8 | Meditation can bring us into the immediate presence of God . |
| 9 | Some were canonised and others — like Eckhart and Tauler — were hounded by the Church , but all were seen to be of enormous importance by their contemporaries , even by people who could not follow them into the inner world . |
| 10 | Although they will gallop around trying to get rid of the bot-fly , they seem to quickly discover that the bot will not follow them into the dense shade of a shelter shed or stable . |
| 11 | I thought he would slide me into the strait-jacket right away . |
| 12 | I think we 'll move you into a little theatre we have down here for just this sort of thing , OK ? |
| 13 | Atheism is virtually unknown in pagan and rural societies , but this new rationalism will usher it into the modern world . |
| 14 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 15 | So , one Member of Parliament 's idea ‘ to have girl muggers whipped ’ would turn back the clock to the 1820s when corporal punishment for women was abolished , whereas another Parliamentary recommendation to ‘ Bring back stocks for hooligans ’ would presumably transport us into the Dark Ages . |
| 16 | Control will sell them into the federal market . |
| 17 | These pictures may take you into the far reaches of analogy , metaphor , anecdotes , jokes , personal experiences and even sheer fantasy . |
| 18 | It 's only 100 metres to the main road where a regular bus service will take you into the bustling resort centre of Magalluf , a 5 k ride which takes about 15 minutes , where a wider variety of bars , restaurants and nightlife can be found , or to Palma Nova 3km away , for a superb selection of restaurants . |
| 19 | I think just , if you 've got the number you can take it into an ordinary bank . |
| 20 | A return trip to Dartington did n't ensnare us into the esoteric cults that flourish in those parts . |
| 21 | It would also take us into a political world which , despite some continuities , was significantly different from that in which party politics first developed , came to fruition , and reached a climax under the later Stuarts . |
| 22 | ‘ In addition to doublle-digit growth for use in bottling , I can see a market for 50-70kta of polyethylene terephthalate in Europe in these new applications by 1990 , ’ says Bruce , ‘ And as a successful outcome of the research we are doing to produce materials of high-temperature resistance [ which would take us into the hot-fill container market ] and materials of improved gas barrier properties could add considerably to that . ’ |
| 23 | This complete lack of rules will force us into a difficult situation , where the student will have to use his own intuition and aesthetic judgement . |
| 24 | Once again we may stress that any attempt to describe syntax by assessing the logical possibilities of combination of the " type " meanings which words and other lexical items may have in the dictionary will simply launch us into the wrong enterprise . |
| 25 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 26 | When Soviet citizens began to question the merits of nuclear energy , they were questioning one of the most basic assumptions of their system : that communism would lead them into the high-tech future , and that the high-tech future would be greatly better than the present . |
| 27 | At this stage , do n't be tempted to try to turn the model as this will inevitably lead you into a difficult situation with which you will not be able to cope . |
| 28 | Now the BBC pitted Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em into the Saturday-night schedule against Bruce Forsyth 's Big Night on ITV . |
| 29 | Instead of letting our success lead us into a fat-cat mentality , it led us much more strongly and much faster into a mentality of asking what are we going to do with it . |
| 30 | That is a pig of a road , I must admit , I do n't know why they do n't make it into a dual carriage way . |