Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] into the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised .
2 When the fish are placed in the breeding tank courtship will normally start within minutes , the male displaying to the female and driving her into the floating mops .
3 Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up .
4 For example , if there are a total of twelve children , twelve divided by four equals three so have twelve sweets on the cake around the edges and cut the cake into quarters , each with three on , before cutting it into the individual pieces .
5 The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models .
6 Sullivan says IBM is ‘ taking the benefit of the productivity ’ by changing the jobs people do , and putting them into the revenue-earning areas of the company .
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