Example sentences of "and be [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bees lose their foothold and are shot into a small bucket of liquid . |
| 2 | There is a tedious pounding at the heart of this music , a sincerity that allows for only one angle of delivery , a passion that has created a pop atmosphere in which it 's impossible to be clever , cool or cynical , a soul whose impulse is NOT to embrace the avant-garde , like Faustus , and be cut into a thousand pieces by a sampling machine . |
| 3 | The band you thought had no personality and were locked into a strait-jacketed genre have just made an album packed with more character and idiosyncrasies than practically any other released in 1992 . |
| 4 | In our marginal universe , we pursued offences which were then not even classified as crimes in the Home Office Standard list , and were pitched into a new philosophical world structured by a number of alternative social constructs . |
| 5 | They stopped for lunch at a wayside trattoria and were shown into a shady courtyard at the back , where half a dozen tables were set out under the trees . |
| 6 | She 's found a job and is moving into a small flat . |
| 7 | The story of the play is simple ; the hero ‘ goes into the world and is betrayed into a great crime ’ . |
| 8 | Its inner surface is usually provided with chemoreceptors and is produced into a small lobe-like epipharynx in the Hymenoptera and a long epipharyngeal stylet in the Siphonaptera . |
| 9 | It had the right to examine policy and to question ministers and was organized into a general subcommittee which examined the whole PESC system and a series of specific subcommittees , each specializing in an area of expenditure . |
| 10 | A urinary catheter had been inserted and was draining into a sealed drainage system . |
| 11 | At some point , the mill eventually passed to George Ford and was converted into a substantial flour mill . |
| 12 | I arrived in good time and was shown into a small living-room where a clothes-horse , hung with baby clothes , stood steaming before an electric fire . |
| 13 | A former pool had silted up and was turning into a miniature reed marsh . |
| 14 | France was pushed to the same position in part because of the above considerations , and in part as a consequence of the French presidential election of 1965 in which de Gaulle , because he failed to win an absolute majority and was forced into a second run-off election against his nearest contender , suffered a not inconsiderable loss of prestige . |
| 15 | Eventually a frail young women appeared , shaking with fear , and was taken into a nearby house . |