Example sentences of "they [was/were] [adv] [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were not dropped into the oblivion of the Gulag archipelago or the Lubianka . |
| 2 | What happened , people should have been paying in for ten years were suddenly taking out for ten years and these huge enormous sums and obviously the surplus which our members had helped to build up er and provide through the years and we 've got seventy-five year olds on you know , extremely low pensions hardly making ends meet , and there were vast sums of money being given away to the employees , that the employers took a contribution holiday and so they were n't paying into the fund either you know , and all the profits of B T as you all know were soaring and partially because of the use of the pension funds and this has greatly obviously erm upset our members and we feel very strongly about it . |
| 3 | They were partly absorbed into the ethos of the aristocracy . |
| 4 | They were closely integrated into the emerging central paradigm of social evolution , according to which the level of sophistication of these objects was held to symbolize the place of such peoples as a kind of fossil record of social development from the primitive to the civilized ( Steadman 1979 ; Chapman 1985 ) . |
| 5 | For two people who both were always in control , this was something of a miracle — to let go of control completely — to trust enough that they were both hurled into the abyss of pure sensation , pure feeling . |
| 6 | Despite the setback , Townsends continued to operate for many years , through Two World Wars , until they were finally absorbed into the Rank , Hovis , McDougall Company . |
| 7 | Corbett offered to double the usual fee and they were soon climbing into the skiff and making their way out across the Forth . |
| 8 | With David Sims off injured , Gloucester 's supply of ball dried up late in the game and they were also playing into the cold wind . |
| 9 | Their heads had been eased into the yoke , and they were now locked into the system . |
| 10 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 11 | Hundreds of secret programs that had been built up by the CIA over the years , including data sensitive enough to topple the heads of half a dozen European governments if they were ever to fall into the wrong hands . |