Example sentences of "[vb past] the [noun] into [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would have hated him to see how her hands shook as she spooned the coffee into the mugs , overdid the sugar and had to start again . |
| 2 | I remember once Nigel picked up his bag of clubs and flung the lot into the woods . |
| 3 | He sipped gently at the wine , exchanging pleasantries with Benstede , who led the conversation into the intricacies of Scottish policies . |
| 4 | The great Assam earthquake of 12 June 1897 occurred during his period as director of the Survey , and he led the investigation into the results of the earthquake , culminating in a memoir of 1899 which was the most complete account of a seismic event up to that date . |
| 5 | The first ended when Gascony fell to the French in 1453 , and the second began when the ambitions of Henry VIII for military glory drew the country into the conflicts of a Europe which had been greatly changed by the emergence of powerful new states in the last quarter of the fifteenth century . |
| 6 | As the farmer poured the fluid into the wounds they would bellow loudly and kick out at him . |
| 7 | Her hands trembled as she poured the milk into the mugs . |
| 8 | The nuts were always available for the little animals but we watched intently as the farmer poured the milk into the buckets and the calves started to drink . |
| 9 | He turned and very slowly , very carefully , poured the coffee into the cups . |
| 10 | She-Who-Is-Alone built a fire and , thinking about the suffering her family and people had endured , threw the doll into the flames . |
| 11 | She walked along the corridor and opened the door into the minstrels ' gallery . |
| 12 | That is what first tempted the UUP into the talks , but clearly they are now back-pedalling fast , having seen the nationalist alternatives , and are more inclined towards internal or integrationist solutions , without the Anglo-Irish Agreement . |
| 13 | Your mother fed the clothes into the rollers and you had to turn the old mangle . |
| 14 | Jotan released the dwarf into the hands of the trooper . |
| 15 | She gathered the wrinkly flowered stuff , pink and yellow and blue rosebuds , on to the deep yoke , adding a ruff at the low neckline , pinched the elastic into the edges of the puff sleeves , tramped her needle patiently around the enormous hem . |
| 16 | Off went the man into the woods only to return screaming for help with a huge grizzly gaining on him with every stride . |
| 17 | He unswung the machine-gun and sprayed the bullets into the trees , sending his hunters scattering for cover . |
| 18 | Mike McGear , brother of Paul McCartney , and ex-member of The Scaffold which took the song into the charts in 1969 , said : ‘ Speaking as a world expert on goolies , there are definitely four of them . |
| 19 | He put the matter into the hands of the Crown Office for a decision from a higher authority than his own . |
| 20 | On Thursday 31 April 700 Lisbon soldiers disembarked at Caniçal and , aided by fog , took the town of Machico and forced the rebels into the hills to the west . |
| 21 | But ‘ How Soon Is Now ’ , refuelled by an unsolicited US video , kindly supplied by Sire Records out of necessity for MTV , catapulted The Smiths into the hearts and minds of hungry anglophiles . |