Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [v-ing] [pers pn] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 2 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
| 3 | A brave staff member believed he was risking his life by throwing it into the street . |
| 4 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 5 | Before preparing subsequent doses , succuss or shake the stock bottle by hitting it into the palm of your hand 8 to 12 times . |
| 6 | Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future . |
| 7 | Other stunts included the breaking up of Labour party meetings and vandalizing a Daily Herald van by driving it into the railings of a London church . |