Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pers pn] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 2 | The Gospels present us with a picture of Jesus of Nazareth searching out those left on the edge , and bringing them into the heart of God 's kingdom . |
| 3 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 4 | You can easily make the curls by twisting gold gift tie and sticking it into the cake . |
| 5 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 6 | There is n't a track on it that I feel does n't do what it should do , which is taking a song out of its time and place and whisking it into the present to make it meaningful today . ’ |
| 7 | There is n't a track on it that I feel does n't do what it should do , which is taking a song out of its time and place and whisking it into the present to make it meaningful today . ’ |
| 8 | Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important . |
| 9 | Viruses multiply inside cells by hijacking the cells ' own molecular machinery and forcing it into the service of the viral life-cycle . |
| 10 | More worryingly insidious is their ability to act as magnets to acid rain , taking it from the atmosphere and releasing it into the soil , where it leaches down and enters the water system . |
| 11 | After approaching him on the street and ushering him into the house he told the boy ; ’ Welcome to the Devil 's Kingdom ’ and threatened to kill him if he did nt co-operate . |
| 12 | ‘ There are , or were , people on this case who are very good , dedicated , and enthusiastic officers , but the only thing they 're enthusiastic about nowadays is getting you charged with the rest of the attacks and getting you into the dock . |
| 13 | They could also consider options looked at but rejected by the NGC , including upgrading the East-West Stella Harker line across the Pennines and linking it into the North-East system . |
| 14 | This is known as cataphora , and it is a favourite opening device of authors who begin stories and novels with an unidentified he or she , both enticing us to look further , and plunging us into the middle of a situation as though we already knew what was going on . |
| 15 | The person using the system to work out the cost of a building brings a substantial degree of skill by deciding whether the standard prices are applicable , and if not , by building up new prices and entering them into the database . |
| 16 | I 'm going upstairs and I 'm stripping her and taking her into the bath with me . ’ |
| 17 | This would involve a small bus ferrying disabled shoppers from their homes and taking them into the heart of the town before returning them direct to their front door . |
| 18 | She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall . |
| 19 | Suppose you are required to perform the simple task of placing each of a pile of twenty counters into a jam jar , picking up one counter at a time and dropping it into the jar . |
| 20 | At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time . |
| 21 | A rewarded training trial consisted of transporting a rat in a slowly rotating opaque box from an adjoining room and putting it into the arena at and facing the centre of the N , S , E or W side-wall ( shown as an unfilled circle ) from which it could move around freely until it found the F+ feeder ; a non-rewarded trial lasted 60s and was conducted without either landmarks or feeders . |
| 22 | Using the trowel she chipped at the ground outside the door , prising cold earth from among the prickly stems and broken bricks , gathering it with her hands and putting it into the bucket . |
| 23 | So I am proposing with him to er undertake a fairly simple but comprehensive business of reading the bass clef , using the left hand , and introducing it into the kind of music that he already plays , and at the same time getting him to play other music as well , which he seems to be very happy . |
| 24 | In the sedimentation tube technique the particles are released simultaneously from the water surface , a process achieved by holding a 2–5 g sample on a platen by means of a wetting agent and lowering it into the water surface . |
| 25 | Let me just , just show you a little thing here just enclosing , just linking it up there , there it is , it 's , it 's a well known little picture , it 's a picture of a wheel where there in the centre the hub is Christ , you see when the hub has got to be the centre otherwise the wheel does not run true and there with Christ is the hub , the centre of your life , the centre of my life , and you and I our lives our selves , there on the outside , were the rim and there 's those spokes that hold it together and make it run true the spoke of , of the bible , God 's word allowing him to speak to us , the spoke of prayer , our communion with God , our praying to him , the spoke of obedience following him obeying him , bringing our lives into , into line with what he says in his word , he says if you love me you will keep my commandments , that 's why we 've got to learn and get to know them from his word and then the spoke of fellowship somebody as likened them to prayer , being like air , our breath , the bible being like food , giving us nourishment and strength , fellowship , it 's the family situation and in just as in a nature family there is , that is the place for care , it 's the place for support it 's the place of sharing , it 's the place of love , where it should be , so God 's family , and then the final one their obedience like exercise , keeping fit , it 's the callisthenics , it 's keeping the muscles toned , obeying what he tells us in his word , well that 's what it means to be a Christian bringing ourselves into line with him and allowing him to re-fashion us in his image and it 's a process that 's going on all the time , Wesley and his hymn talks about us being used and the scripture being changed from glory into glory , till in heaven we take our place there , like him , John says when we see him , we shall be like him , but we shall see him as he is and that 's God 's purpose for you and for me , to be like him , and the moment we come to him and respond to him , the process starts and it goes on , day in , day out , night in , night out , week in , week out , over the years him changing and fashioning us into the image of his son , because that 's how he created us originally , he created to be like him and in this new creation , we were singing we are a new creation , it 's to be like him . |
| 26 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 27 | Later that afternoon I saw a horse-drawn van pull up outside the cottage and soon a burly fellow was fetching furniture out and loading it into the van . |
| 28 | Therefore , if the Government can finance its expenditure without taxation by some other method , namely through inflation , by creating the additional spending power and infusing it into the economy , that is an ideal solution to an insoluble problem — how to increase public expenditure faster than the rate of increase of the national income without the rest of the community having to surrender any claims or expectations . |
| 29 | ‘ Come in , ’ she said , stepping back and waving him into the flat . |
| 30 | Although Stoy Hayward uses DOS versions of 1-2-3 , Mr Wise reports some interest in Windows : ‘ It 's mainly for ease of use , and for the increased ease of transferring a section of spreadsheet and pasting it into the middle of a document . ’ |