Example sentences of "were [adv] [verb] into [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The children were eventually admitted into care as a result of neglect . |
| 2 | Doors , wooden grain chests , roofing beams were merely hacked into shape with adzes . |
| 3 | The 23 remaining ex-Croydon cars were soon put into service on the various routes based on New Cross depôt , but 396 had been a war casualty and 376 damaged beyond repair in an accident just after the war . |
| 4 | When Gan was complete , the Britannias , which were just coming into service with the RAF , would be able to reach Singapore without overflying India . |
| 5 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 6 | The hatches were also brought into use in the 1939–1945 war . |
| 7 | ‘ It was n't funny at the time , of course , because young people were really getting into trouble for being too westernised ’ , she told me . |
| 8 | German formations from the north were now marching into position on either side of 20th Corps , but those assigned to the left wing — called by the Germans the ‘ Eastern Group ’ — might have to face about if Rennenkampf marched south . |
| 9 | When they were installed to start working on 24 October 1931 , the Company 's nine bogie cars and one or two Milnes four wheelers were then taken into store at the L.U.T 's Fulwell Depôt , never to turn a wheel in service again . |
| 10 | These factors were then taken into account in the statistical analysis of the data . |
| 11 | A teenager was killed and another injured by a bomb which destroyed an electricity pylon , and a radio presenter at a pro-government radio station was injured by another bomb ; the capital and towns to the north were again plunged into darkness by power cuts . |
| 12 | The religious police ( mutawa ) were recently pricked into action by the horrifying sight of Saudi women demonstrating for the right to drive . |