Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun prp] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 2 | The weakness of the Crown and the internecine strife of the barons plunged England into anarchy . |
| 3 | The undress field and barracks uniforms worn when the destruction of the USS Maine blasted America into war were those of the 1895 Regulations . |
| 4 | ‘ There is so much Isabel does not like , ’ she said , a note of real scorn in her voice that threw Dorothea into confusion , and she fidgeted , avoiding Kathleen 's eye . |
| 5 | With part of the proceedings he bought five players and turned Morton into promotion candidates . |
| 6 | The receipt of this letter threw Clara into ecstasy , for she had indeed observed his comings and goings , and had been suitably taken by his solid , rocky , regular features and by the dashing abandon of his hair style . |
| 7 | Eve led Adam into temptation , so Eve was a source of sin — and all other women are the same . |
| 8 | Eric , at the time a budding saxophonist , press ganged Melanie into service as a singer in his band Adventure . |
| 9 | The tiny sound of distress broke the spell and spurred Grant into action . |
| 10 | French balancing act tipped Beirut into war : In his concluding article on Lebanon 's history , Robert Fisk examines how France 's ‘ political solution ’ created a war |
| 11 | That decision exposed the party 's bankruptcy : with no leader of stature to replace Mr Gandhi , they turned to a woman whose only political asset was her name , which , the party hoped , would bring in the sympathy vote that swung Rajiv into power after his mother 's death in 1984 . |
| 12 | The family 's first stop at a garage for a minor repair led Jack into conversation with the proprietor . |
| 13 | The horror of Pearce 's fate and the appalling impossibility of this thing wedged in the windowframe stung Cardiff into action again . |
| 14 | This stung Minton into action . |
| 15 | This stung Hindhead into action and they blitzed Frensham with a three-goal burst in ten minutes . |
| 16 | After a short period Lymn took Rambush into partnership , forming the gas and chemical engineering firm of Lymn & Rambush . |
| 17 | The elder Pinney , owner of the largest sugar plantations in Nevis , would certainly have been less pliable had he realized that his sons were allowing the new tenants to have Racedown rent-free ; but in the event he quickly warmed to the young poet , and welcomed him as a guest to the family 's town house in Bristol during the autumn of 1795 , the period which first brought Wordsworth into contact with both Coleridge and Southey.7sup18 ; |
| 18 | The combined forces of Rufus and Warenne starved Pevensey into submission . |
| 19 | But on 2 May , three armed FBI agents took Coleman into custody for ‘ wilfully and knowingly making a false statement in an application for a passport ’ , and threw him into Mobile City Jail . |
| 20 | This brought Britain into conflict with Islamic fundamentalists , who believed that the Dar al-Islam , the world where Islam ruled , should be peopled with slaves from Dar al-Harb , the lands of the infidel . |
| 21 | The step brought Italy into line with the majority of other member states of the EC . |
| 22 | This agency brought Worsley into association with Samuel Hartlib [ q.v . ] . |
| 23 | Amendments to Slovenia 's constitution adopted by the republican Assembly on Sept. 28 , which asserted the Assembly 's jurisdiction over the Slovene territorial defence force ( civilian units akin to a National Guard in the USA ) , brought Slovenia into conflict at the beginning of October with the federal Presidency , the federal Secretariat for National Defence , and the Serb-dominated JNA high command . |
| 24 | When the partnership ended in 1837 , Aspdin recommenced manufacture with his two sons , James and William , at a nearby site and took James into partnership three years later . |
| 25 | A reshuffle took Anderson into midfield and they looked a lot more lively . |
| 26 | I put Armstrong into reverse and accelerated , driving just on the mirror . |
| 27 | Worcestershire won the toss at Swansea and put Glamorgan into bat . |
| 28 | Fenna accompanied Maggie into consciousness . |
| 29 | ARMAGH won the toss and put Carrick into bat . |
| 30 | That there was some man somewhere who had , to put it in all its baldness , got Liza into trouble , Harriet had no doubt at all . |