Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] [pos pn] [noun] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The main reason for using a Statutory Demand is not to drive your debtor into insolvency , which helps no one , but rather to bring pressure to bear on having accounts paid and having them paid quickly .
2 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 .
3 There is nothing more certain than that Zacco will not send his friend into danger .
4 Since you 're more than a little accident prone at this time , exercise caution and be careful not to lead your owner into trouble .
5 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 .
6 In Kufra , for example , Zuwaya cadres drew back from imposing the full rigours of socialist regulation on members of opposed Zuwaya groups ; but in Ajdabiya — closer to Tripoli , more heterogeneous because swollen by immigration — Magharba cadres did not refrain from threatening Zuwaya landlords with expropriation ( although by 1979 they had not put their threats into action ) .
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 While adjusting a spotlight to illuminate the perineal area take care not to throw your face into shadow , or lip-reading will become impossible .
9 So , too , similar ‘ home industries ’ of women in the towns do not find their way into occupation statistics .
10 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 ?
11 ‘ Parents , do n't goad your children into resentment . ’
12 She had n't resented his withdrawal into music when his music had won world acclaim .
13 As Mary and I waved goodbye to him , I thought that I would n't put his advice into practice quite yet .
14 I th , you know when you 're sitting there and ca n't click your brain into gear ?
15 But then , of course ’ — she pulled a face now — ‘ I had n't taken your husband into account , had , I ? nor his charm or his wiliness .
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