Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | Her insistence on setting up lone stations cut off from the central missionary settlement led her into conflict with the authorities , who often thwarted her persistent applications to go further ‘ up-country ’ . |
| 3 | Debt and dear money got us into it and , until we break debt 's grip , we shall never get out of it . |
| 4 | In February , it swept past Jupiter with British instruments on board , harnessing the planet 's gravitational field to hurl it into an orbit enabling study of the poles of the Sun in 1994–95 . |
| 5 | Her mum got her into hospital but Sharon discharged herself . ’ |
| 6 | Mum got you into trouble all right with me , did n't she ? |
| 7 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 8 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 9 | When nest building , he will return to his nest with bits of weed to cement it into place , even when the diver is only a few inches away . |
| 10 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 11 | As from last week , ICL plc 's Training Services division transformed itself into Peritas Ltd , a wholly-owned , but independent subsidiary . |
| 12 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 13 | EIiot 's intense sympathy with the fishermen of the Massachusetts coast transforms them into figures of endurance , secular saints , whose course is one of earthly failure which the toughest faith transforms into gain . |
| 14 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 15 | Anxiously , they waited as Delaney 's black figure lowered itself into the fog , and was lost , bit by bit , from view , suggesting a primordial creature descending into a tropical , mist-covered swamp . |
| 16 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 17 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 18 | There is no evidence , to date , that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers . |
| 19 | This schematic way of thinking channels us into an obscurantist cul-de-sac instead of regenerating our culture . |
| 20 | For some reason the barman got it into his head that I was the boss of your TV station . |
| 21 | Indeed in Cehave NV v Bremer Handelgesellschaft [ 1976 ] QB 44 , the Court of Appeal considered that it was the intention to re-state the pre-existing sales law and that this intention translated itself into a canon of statutory interpretation . |
| 22 | ‘ You seem to make a habit of this , ’ she muttered as confusion propelled her into action . |
| 23 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 24 | ‘ Some things , though , have to be taken seriously , ’ he went on , allowing a faint note of patronage to insinuate itself into his words . |
| 25 | She hurried back to the dressing-tent , where her mummy helped her into her Gnome outfit , around which was swathed a broad white band on which was printed in big letters the Brownie Guide Motto , LEND A HAND . |
| 26 | Two years on , Ruth made yet another bid to launch herself into her chosen career : |
| 27 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 28 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 29 | The sea 's turbulence increased ; the noise of the cannons ' fire was terrible , unknown , the men felt panic rise inside them , yet the fear lashed them into frenzy of battle — then another canoe tipped up , and another , but still not the one in which Dulé rode . |
| 30 | He wanted to take O'Hara to the Beaux Arts Club to drink him into sleep . |