Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority . |
| 2 | Politically , relations remained tense for much of this middle period , sufficiently so to affect economic links between England and France , and England was allied with the semi-independent feudatories of the French Crown , Burgundy and Brittany , on a number of occasions until they were absorbed into the lands of the Valois dynasty in 1477 and 1492 respectively . |
| 3 | One of the circumstances which was known , or ought to have been known , to the parties at the time they were entering into the contract was that in certain circumstances the clause would clearly be unenforceable ( namely , in the area of liability for death or personal injury ) . |
| 4 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 5 | An authority spokeswoman said they were looking into the complaint . |
| 6 | At the Franz Joseph he was greeted with great style and they were led into the terrace restaurant , to a table with a magnificent view over the whole of the Hochhauser valley , once more covered in snow . |
| 7 | They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground . |
| 8 | They were flung into the air as the car smashed through a concrete wall before coming to rest on its side in a garden at Darlaston , West Midlands . |
| 9 | The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden . |
| 10 | The investments were extremely profitable , however , and the companies were among the most successful in the country when they were nationalized into the NCB in 1947 . |
| 11 | Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve . |
| 12 | Some were so bulky that they were borne into the Rante sitting upright like pugnacious lords in specially constructed litters , carried by as many as eight straining porters . |
| 13 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |
| 14 | Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it . |
| 15 | They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term . |
| 16 | She did not understand what he had meant until they were getting into the car . |
| 17 | Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction . |
| 18 | As they were walking into the square , David did venture to ask whether Julia had yet got over her aversion to St Mark 's itself . |
| 19 | Soon they were pulling into the car park . |
| 20 | Many of those who moved were deeply ashamed and riddled , with guilt as they were bussed into the plant , hiding under the seats from their former colleagues on the picket at the gate . |
| 21 | Now they were seeping into the consciousness of people within a milieu which , rejecting straight left politics , was searching for a route out of a hippy enclave at a time when the political temperature was rising . |
| 22 | Jews had a better chance of effecting the transition if , for example , they were recruited into the army as children . |
| 23 | Furthermore , they were recruited into the trial immediately after their gall stone dissolution had been confirmed — rather than months or years later . |
| 24 | Soon they were driving into the hospital car park . |
| 25 | They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen . |
| 26 | So they set off anyway and just in no time at all they were coming into the shore below Greentoft . |
| 27 | An attitude of respect , even fear came over their escort as they were taken into the church . |
| 28 | They were ushered into the lounge then Masala discreetly withdrew , closing the door behind him . |
| 29 | Her fingertips were numb where they were pressing into the stone wall behind her . |
| 30 | And when they were come into the house , they saw the young child with Mary his mother , and fell down and worshipped him ; and when they had opened their treasures , they presented unto him gifts : gold and frankincense and myrrh . |