Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 2 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 3 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 4 | I thought it was a good analogy to how Manson had affected the country , how he had really wedged himself into the American family to the extent that he 's now on the country 's most popular TV show . |
| 5 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 6 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 7 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 8 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 9 | So it 's re-inserted itself into the real world , you could say . |
| 10 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 11 | We 've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems he 's elevated himself into the big league these past four years . |
| 13 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 14 | HOW HAVE YOU integrated yourself into the Glaswegian community you paint ? |
| 15 | HOW HAVE YOU integrated yourself into the Glaswegian community you paint ? |
| 16 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 17 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 18 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 19 | It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva . |
| 20 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse . |
| 21 | We have to make the imaginative and unsettling leap into understanding that agricultural and industrial civilizations have put nothing into the basic wiring of the human animal . |
| 22 | Amy had thrown herself into the social round , while Catherine had begun a career in journalism . |
| 23 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 24 | GROUPE BULL , the French computer company , has launched itself into the personal computer market with the $635m acquisition of Zenith Computer Group of the US , writes Mary Fagan . |
| 25 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |