Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [pers pn] 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 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | In the wild their seed capsules are first frozen and them buried under snow until the Spring kicks them into life . |
| 16 | There is no evidence , to date , that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers . |
| 17 | This schematic way of thinking channels us into an obscurantist cul-de-sac instead of regenerating our culture . |
| 18 | For some reason the barman got it into his head that I was the boss of your TV station . |
| 19 | ‘ You seem to make a habit of this , ’ she muttered as confusion propelled her into action . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He wanted to take O'Hara to the Beaux Arts Club to drink him into sleep . |
| 26 | My natural speed turned me into a wing three-quarter at rugby for the colts , though I can always recall matches in the centre and at fly-half . |
| 27 | Cobalt showed them into his sitting room . |
| 28 | Therefore it is suggested that for the husband whose outrage forecloses the possibility of a mere divorce proceeding , a clear case exists for having the courts carve out an exception to the three-year rule so as to allow a suit to be brought for nullity through fraud or mistake.56 To the protesting reader who may feel that this spurious reasoning leads us into the realm of nonsense , the only answer is that it is the purpose of this paper to provoke a re-examination of certain fundamental values and ideas . |
| 29 | The opposition ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party said on Jan. 21 that " instead of [ Bulgaria ] being a pillar of peace in the Balkans " the recognition turned it into an " object of suspicions and doubts by its neighbours " . |
| 30 | So she advertised it at a knock-down price , and then invented a competitive bid to hurry you into signing on the dotted line . |