Example sentences of "[be] [verb] into [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perry was a thick-set , bull-necked man who looked as if he 'd been eased into his suit with a shoe-horn . |
| 2 | The elderly diabetic lady had just been tucked into her bed when the doors were opened for visitors . |
| 3 | Not only do they write of their personal experiences , speculations and fears , they also begin to imagine what people they know are thinking , saying , and most of all , what they are typing into their word-processors . |
| 4 | The sociolinguist and the anthropologist , then , in studying the various functions of spoken and written language , begin from the social data of the conventions in which they are acted out and through which members of that culture are socialised into their use . |
| 5 | So on gaining the top , where the walkers are tucking into their second pork pie , the rock-climber needs some way to distinguish him or herself as greatly superior . |
| 6 | A wily merchant had asked fifty times their worth , and had been left gaping when one thousand times their worth had been pressed into his hands . |
| 7 | Little red leaflets headed Herzlich Wilkommen ! are pressed into their cold hands ; the leaflets give them the deeply resistible news that they that they can get discounts on all burgers at the BurgerKing shops across West Berlin . |
| 8 | She knew nothing of her condition ; the Colonel slipped the pills she had been prescribed into her hot drink at night , and she was unaware that she was taking medication . |
| 9 | During evolution it could have been modified into its present form . |
| 10 | Great Britain still had great industrial resources : there were specialized skills available among her workers , she still had huge supplies of her excellent coal , she had opened up new markets as fast as she had been pursued into her old ones by her competitors , and she had an enormous income from investments overseas and from the services which she supplied — in transport , banking and insurance , for example — to the rest of the world . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been looking into your background and there 's a few things there I do n't think you 'd like to come out . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ At the Polish centre they told me that Marek Nowak had been looking into his father 's life . |
| 13 | Very little research has been done into its cause among adolescents and adults . |
| 14 | Thus if a business manages to establish that its terms are incorporated into its contracts by signature , it may still find that it can not rely on any of the terms which are subject to the reasonableness test under the Act if , for instance , the business knows the signer did not read the terms before signing . |
| 15 | I am shouting into his face but he is n't listening . |
| 16 | When a pregnant woman smokes she inhales various poisons , including nicotine and carbon monoxide , which are absorbed into her body and pass to the baby . |
| 17 | The digested material is slowly passed through the gut by muscle action , and foodstuffs , water and salts are absorbed into our blood stream . |
| 18 | It blinds members of society to the contradictions and conflicts of interest which are built into their relationships . |
| 19 | The constancy effects Thouless demonstrated are built into our perceptual mechanism . |
| 20 | The United Kingdom is a signatory to both the Convention ( 1951 ) and the Covenant ( 1976 ) although neither has been incorporated into our domestic law . |
| 21 | Serious inroads had now been made into my pitiful cash reserves and tomorrow I would be penniless . |
| 22 | Now that applies to any matter arising , and subsequently I think that er the Donovan Report more or less reinforced er that particular er er procedure , although it had been written into our national agreement er as far back as I can remember . |
| 23 | ‘ The British have always been prepared to give a measure of recognition to the imperial qualities of other races , especially when these races have been absorbed into their own dominions ; for obvious reasons of self-esteem , conquerors especially enjoy the subjection of those who were formerly paramount . |
| 24 | Her mother , once rid of the armour-plated respectability of Maître Henri and his phalanx of parents , brothers and sisters , all devoted to the law , had married a happy-go-lucky literary exile from Leeds , as nearly as possible his opposite , and the half-English , half-French child had been absorbed into their slapdash household with the greatest enthusiasm and affection , and never given time to doubt or worry , surrounded as she was by joyous evidence of her own importance and value . |
| 25 | Like countless adverts for soap powder , shampoo , tropical fruit drinks , deodorants , which had been absorbed into her memory during hours of television watching , the world they inhabited in this fantasy was innocent and carefree , a garden of Eden before the Fall . |
| 26 | These have now been absorbed into our private sector division . |
| 27 | I walk a tightrope ; if inroads are made into my routine I risk overbalancing . |
| 28 | How do we know that what we 're drawing into our lungs is n't doing us harm . |
| 29 | He got about fifty yards up the road , stopped , turned towards me and said , ‘ I hear you 're looking into my affairs . |
| 30 | and of course both Oxford and Swindon go into the cup draw at the weekend for round three … while we 're going into our action round up |