Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She suggests that the ‘ board ’ money which young people paid for living in the parental household was seen as an exchange , especially for daughters : they handed over their wages to their mothers and in exchange their mothers equipped them to enable them to go into service . |
| 2 | To round up clans of Ayoreo Indians with the dubious intent of rescuing them for Christianity , massacring those resistant to ‘ taming , imprisoning the remainder and allowing them to sink into ill-health and torpor , seems monstrous . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose you 'd like me to go into purdah ? ’ she enquired scathingly . |
| 4 | The three of them dissolved into laughter at the idea of it , and Ianthe went to make some more coffee . |
| 5 | At times in the past there must have been tenderness between the members of this family ; the old lady had conceived and given birth to two children , nursed them and watched them grow into adult life . |
| 6 | She kneaded me , all right , she wanted me transformed into puff pastry just like Daddy . |
| 7 | Every word stops me turning away and closing my eyes , to block it out , to let me retreat into sleep . |
| 8 | The application was renewed to the full court ( Taylor L.J. , Waterhouse and Kennedy JJ. ) on 5 March 1992 and was granted , the grounds of appeal being , that conversations between the undercover police officers and the appellant were interviews and , therefore , the rules in the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 and the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 ( s. 66 ) Codes of Practice ( ‘ the PACE Codes ’ ) ought to have been but were not observed , that the effect of the police operation had been to trick the appellant and his co-accused into self-incrimination , and that pursuant to Reg. v. Sang [ 1980 ] A.C. 402 the court ought to have excluded the evidence under section 78 of the Act of 1984 . |
| 9 | After gobbling up whatever I could find in the house , I crept into bed and pulled the blankets over my head in a vain attempt to stifle the mocking voices and shut out the ugly visions . |
| 10 | Well I 'm a bit worried when people are buying these guarantees and someone goes into liquidation , like for instance if you buy an extended warranty then usually dealers tie up with one particular broker specialising in that form of insurance , and and if that particular dealer — the car dealer — gets the insurance and it 's in his or her name |
| 11 | I am not averse to packs of information on what happens when someone goes into prison . |
| 12 | By the time I got into position , my lungs were bursting and I had to go up for air again . |
| 13 | As I got into psychology I 'd read text books at nights , it 's sad is n't it ? |
| 14 | but I saw him on the television last week , breakfast T V , not last week , week before , just before I got into work , and this woman on the television asking this stupid question , she said why do n't you put any opposition up in Parliament , and he hit the roof , but what the television did , they did n't switch off when he played bloody hell with 'em , excuse my French er President , but this is how it went , he could n't give a damn about you bloody lot , he kept the television on , it just showed his frustration . |
| 15 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 16 | I had never cooked a healthy meal and I was only there a month when I got into burglary . ’ |
| 17 | When I got into money difficulties in Woking . |
| 18 | When Waits was discovered singing in a Los Angeles club in 1971 , he was working part-time as a fireman : ‘ See , I got into music by chance . |
| 19 | In fact , I only became a half decent painter after I got into art college . |
| 20 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
| 21 | I fell asleep as soon as I got into bed , then woke to full wakefulness at three that afternoon . |
| 22 | I got into bed , turned the light off and lay with just the fire lighting the room . |
| 23 | When I got into bed alone . |
| 24 | I was thinking about black holes as I got into bed one night in 1970 , shortly after the birth of my daughter Lucy . |
| 25 | I got into bed , and lay thinking about Conchis . |
| 26 | Before I got into bed , I looked out of my window . |
| 27 | I got into bed , and I was really nice and warm , and I was lying back , I do n't really like to lie back when I 'm doing something , I like to sit up in bed , I do n't generally do work in bed . |
| 28 | I got into conversation with Tony Fessal , who had been third in the previous year 's 10K . |
| 29 | Dr Haidar went off to talk to Mr Postman and I got into conversation with Mr Bhajan Lal , the Pradhan ( headman ) of the village . |
| 30 | But I think I got into drama professionally in the first place by accident . |