Example sentences of "[vb past] it into [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Michael and Edward placed one of the flat pieces of steel at one end and Tom and Mr Fletcher fixed it into place .
2 In fact the defragmenter , Speedisk , is so good that Microsoft bought it and built it into MS-DOS 6 .
3 The big wheels churned it into mud .
4 It seemed a simple system when I got to know it , but wondered what it was all about , with chaps standing in different places and shouting and bawling where they wanted this waggon that was being pushed off , as he came running without the train they diverted it into siding , you see , sorting out a train .
5 It swung open at his touch but closing it , as always , was more difficult and he lugged and half lifted it into place and slipped the circle of wire over the gatepost with a familiar sensation of having turned his back on the workaday world and entered country which , no matter how frequent his visits , would always be alien territory .
6 However , a Derry road-sweeper found the handbag lying on Strand Road this week and handed it into Derry RUC .
7 She screwed a wetted face flannel into a point and dug it into Léonie 's ears , then attacked her unruly hair with a hard brush .
8 Wee Joe watched as William and Jenny poured it into bowls and dripped water into it .
9 He scooped it up from the desk and threw it into Duvall 's face .
10 As it came away from the cold flesh , so she cut it into strips , and she wrapped each strip of skin around a piece of bone .
11 Intercepting a fresh glass of champagne from a passing waiter , he pressed it into Mrs Rossington 's hand .
12 Donna jammed it into reverse .
13 As he swung it into Charing Cross Road he nearly collided with another car .
14 Its autonomy was , however , short-lived , and although it was probably no less active than it had been under Henry VII , Wolsey 's domineering conduct thrust it into subservience .
15 I have a picture in my mind still of endless queues of captives waiting under guard to mount the steps of the Aztec temples where the priests of Huitzilopochtli stood waiting with obsidian stone knives , hands and faces black with caked blood , their robes stiff with it , as they worked industriously to open up each human chest , extract the still-palpitating heart , offering it to their filthy god , then tossing the torn-open body back down the steps to the waiting warriors below , who hacked it into joints for the ritual cannibalism that ensured both the pleasures of the flesh and added prowess from the absorption of the captive joint into their own live bodies .
16 He rushed it into UK cinemas to ensure that the shareholders did n't notice .
17 Pilot Gerard Gaillard landed the stricken aircraft on the A40 in the French Alps and steered it into crash barriers .
18 You made assumptions which made those parts of me invisible , that shamed it into retreat , that said , ‘ You 're really like us .
19 Some female handed them a hypo-bulb and they sprayed it into Jezrael 's face , and there was a physical paralysis leadening her without physical pain .
20 The classic statement of this view by T. H. Marshall ( 1950 ; reprinted in Marshall and Bottomore , 1992 ) conceived citizenship as a condition in which all members of a society possessed clearly defined and steadily expanding civil , political and social rights ; and in this sense it embodied a principle of equality which brought it into conflict with the inequalities engendered by a capitalist economy or existing in various authoritarian regimes .
21 The Open Software Foundation 's recent wrestling with its internal structure ( UX No 423 ) , reportedly a product of its continuing financial angst , has created a reorganisation that separates OSF/1 , the operating system that brought it into existence , from the other technologies it has put its name to .
22 This may be analogous to the question why a newly independent State is deemed bound by a treaty which brought it into existence .
23 This not only brought it into harmony with the existing regime , but also enabled it to further dissociate itself from its Judaic origins .
24 The reform of both property and divorce law modernised and rationalised the institution of marriage and brought it into line with new kinds of family wealth and relationships .
25 John Coffin , on his way to work , stopped at the delicatessen to buy one of their warm ham rolls , then took it into Cat 's Coffee Shop to eat with a cup of the best Kenya .
26 That point may seem obvious but I do n't think whoever worked out the amounts given in state benefits ever took it into account .
27 This statement was quoted with apparent approval by Lord Edmund-Davies in Hay v Hughes [ 1975 ] QB 790 and Watkins J took it into account in Regan v Williamson [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 305 .
28 Then I needed to have it refretted so I took it into Joe Satriani 's guitar tech and he said , ‘ Wait a minute — where did you get this ?
29 She got hold of a fallen ulster and stuffed it into Nina 's face .
30 Without a word she untied it and stuffed it into Werewolf 's lapel pocket until it looked like a dress handkerchief , then she moved behind him and pulled the sleeves of his jacket up to the elbows .
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