Example sentences of "that [pron] have [be] [vb pp] into " in BNC.

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1 It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks .
2 Rain said : ‘ You were told by Edouard that I had been tricked into going to the museum .
3 My impression that I had been hurled into a coarser world was heightened at the beginning of each day , particularly one morning when I was on fire picket duty and had the sadistic pleasure of rattling the dustbin lids and shouting " wakey-wakey ! " along the corridors .
4 He further found that she had been lulled into a sense of false security by the hospital staff and been misinformed as to the availability and effect of alternative procedures .
5 To begin with we used what paper , pens and pencils we could put together from our hand luggage and from among the belongings left in the house that we had been bundled into .
6 Every experience that we have is transmitted into muscular tension .
7 Despite his claim that he does not make things into ideas but only ideas into things , the feeling remains , as , in effect , Berkeley concedes , that ‘ all that is real and substantial … is banished out of the world ’ , and that everything has been made into ‘ so many chimeras and illusions on the fancy ’ .
8 If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house .
9 However , in April 1988 Teo , along with eight other original " conspirators " , issued a public statement claiming that they had been coerced into making their televised confessions [ see p. 36353 ] .
10 Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements .
11 They assumed that they had been moved into the area these smells were coming from and , in an endeavour to return to the loft , those with olive oil on their bills flew north , while those with turpentine on flew south .
12 Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas .
13 Women jeered at Blackshirts who made their way to them , only to find that they had been lured into a group of Communist sympathisers intent on vengeance .
14 During the hearings , officials from the CIA apparently admitted having concealed evidence from Judge Shoob , but claimed that they had been pressurized into doing so by the Justice Department .
15 If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything .
16 Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background .
17 An important factor in the crisis is the awakening realisation among West Germans that they have been tricked into pretending this peculiar arrangement of subsidising their compatriots ' oppressors was normal .
18 Although I have great respect for W. 's consultant and for the dedication of the staff , it seems to me that they have been manoeuvred into a position from which a change is necessary , even if it is a change that carries the risk of interpretation by W. as ‘ yet another adult rejection and failure . ’
19 Sad to report , then , that they have been taken into the studio with this album and produced .
20 The ‘ Old Guard ’ , no longer playing a role at Central Office , has muttered darkly about the inexperience of the ‘ Brat Pack ’ : the Young Guns say it 's not their fault , that they have been forced into the background by more experienced campaigners .
21 He was appalled at the thought of turning into a pub at five-thirty for a quiet drink and finding that it had been converted into a Poets ' Pub , ‘ reverberating , like an African village , with the roll of ‘ Drake 's Drum . ’ .
22 Marx maintained that the human consciousness which could project this refracted religious self-image must be a ‘ false consciousness ’ , profoundly alienated from itself ; that it had been brought into this state by the development of divisions within human society between the different social and economic classes ; that religion served in that situation as an ‘ ideology ’ , a system of beliefs functioning to support the established order , and an ‘ opium ’ which would keep the proletariat passive in the face of their oppression and exploitation by diverting their attention and hopes to another world and its promised rewards ; that it was not enough for the philosopher to understand and diagnose this situation , but that he must go on to change it ; and that this involved moving back from Feuerbach 's ‘ critique of heaven ’ to a fresh ‘ critique of earth ’ , of economics , politics and society in general , with the aim of changing the structures of the established order and overcoming the forces of division and alienation which both produced religion and drew support from it .
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24 His fingernails were broken and bloody from when he had thrown himself at the door and torn at it , in the moment when he realised that he had been shut into the stall , and what was going to happen next .
25 Never mind the narrow life that he had been born into ; his tiny presence seemed to make all the suffering and pain his birth had caused worthwhile .
26 She even hinted that he had been bullied into it by his wife .
27 To avoid giving the impression that he had been suckered into coming by US military intelligence , and any reluctance he might feel in consequence to talk freely , Coleman was told to take George home to the family lake house near Auburn , Alabama , and to set him up for questioning by saying that the FBI routinely interviewed all students from the Middle East .
28 Corbett spent the rest of the evening analysing what he knew and had learnt but soon realised that he had been drawn into a maze of marshy morass and the more he probed , the more puzzled he became .
29 Morton was on the point of killing the Dragoon when the soldier begged for quarter , adding that he had been forced into the army and had not wanted to be a soldier .
30 The First Deputy Chair of the Supreme Council , Andrejs Krastins , claimed in an Interior Ministry statement reported on May 5 that accusations in the Atmoda-Atpute newspaper that he had been recruited into the KGB in 1980 for three years were an attempt to compromise the resolution .
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