Example sentences of "[to-vb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because it is so easy for women to slip into a shared area with each other , they may at times have a fear of doing so , in case they lose their individuality . |
| 2 | ‘ I was able to plug into a growing formula which was already successful and so avoid the ‘ learning curve ’ which so often represents the downfall of any new venture , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 3 | He learnt then and in later practice how to jump into a bobbing canoe , letting his feet give under him without capsizing the frail Folbot . |
| 4 | I wanted to curl into a tiny ball and be forgotten about by everyone . |
| 5 | They were too eager for his hands , too ready to leap into a fierce throbbing as he groaned harshly in his throat with pleasure and delicately manipulated the rosy tips with his finger and thumb . |
| 6 | So it was a shock this morning , after miles of deserted sands , to come into a small crowded bay : to see buckets and spades and sandcastles , a parade of shops with fishing nets and beach balls and to return to a world of people . |
| 7 | It is unfortunate that the team headed by Olive Tunstall feel the need to launch into a personal attack on Heim , however , saying that ‘ we consider that Heim acted in such a way as to reduce the credibility of the profession ’ . |
| 8 | The woman led him away , leaving Charlotte to wander into a long pine-panelled room with a huge stone fireplace at the far end and a picture window to her right commanding a view of the terraced front garden and the curving drive up which she had walked . |
| 9 | There we walked through the Green Dragon to the force , at a hundred feet the longest unbroken waterfall in England , and known to freeze into a massive ice tube in winter — Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy visited the spot and were impressed by its grandeur , so much so that William , ever the florid poet , wrote ebulliently to Coleridge , describing the visit : |
| 10 | Tougher driving tests start next April , when candidates will be judged also on their ability to reverse into a tight parking space . |
| 11 | Giggs ' goal was highlighted on Match of the Day , demonstrating uncanny reactions in taking advantage of Dean Austin 's stumble , slipping the ball through Jason Cundy 's legs and rounding keeper Ian Walker to shoot into a vacant net from an awkward angle . |
| 12 | The miners ' strike failed to evolve into a veritable civil war ( although , beneath the veneer of the tabloid media , it was getting pretty close ) and a wave of pessimism was matched only by the resolve of the hardline few . |
| 13 | As The Smiths grew in commercial stature , so they encountered more and more professional people , especially in America , and these people constantly told the band to think big , to think mega , to evolve into a major international unit . |
| 14 | You may find that you often have to do this , as even a modest wedding bouquet can be too large to fit into a reasonably-sized picture frame , and if it were reproduced in its original size it could become such a large picture that it would completely dominate any room in which it was hung . |
| 15 | New lighting effects were installed to improve public viewing from outside the glass case , and an operating console was designed to fit into a small room outside the Dolls ' House . |
| 16 | This would enable it to fit into a future " joint co-ordinated organ of a European type " . |
| 17 | It is not difficult to interpret archaeological material to fit into a preconceived pattern if one has the determination and mental agility . |
| 18 | If the TV has got to fit into a limited space , it 's a good idea to choose a model that has a front-facing speaker , such as Ferguson or Hitachi . |
| 19 | Clare watched her listening , taking note , modifying her language and behaviour as carefully as an animal adapts its camouflage to fit into a new environment . |
| 20 | An intensive course for executives , designed to fit into a four-week period of full-time study , although it may be used for different study periods . |
| 21 | It demon-strates the lengths to which a sensible person , as I took the excavator to be , was prepared to go to fit into a standard accepted hypothesis sealed by a great tradition . |
| 22 | but I mean it depends also I suppose erm , when your aiming for is the market , and I , I , I would like to have my work published but I also like to perform it and its got to be attractive to be looked at , in the first instance in , on a page its not known , er , there is , there is a lot of debate at the moment about using erm pages for poetry and some poets have actually starting using , writing from the wrong side and , and , and , and writing in the shape of a poem , for instance , if , what poem I was thinking off was a , was a waterfall so it was cascading the words cascading , you almost have to pick , ha , ha , have a choice of , of words that you want to fit into a particular thing , erm I think that 's had its place , but I think it can be a bit off putting as well , yeah , but it exciting , yeah definitely . |
| 23 | ‘ The bulls going to Perth are selected for the suckler men and tend to fit into a tight price band . |
| 24 | Even within elite culture , where producers ( composers ) were nominally autonomous , the modernist challenge tended to subside into a conservative ‘ neo-classical ’ hegemony . |
| 25 | Some of this support was on a substantial scale : a large cheque given to enable the parents to ‘ buy things for the baby ’ ; a capital sum to enable a young architect to buy into a new firm ; paying the wages of a home help to assist a family with several young children ( pp. 92–4 ) . |
| 26 | Since having to give-up a dolls-house as a small child to help her mother make ends meet , Rosemary Gardner has always yearned to walk into a little world of her own , now , 40+ years later , she has done just that ! |
| 27 | People were clapping as he stumbled between the rows of seats with her and out into the garden , where she reached out one hand to clutch at the trunk of a flowering cherry , then doubled up over his arm to vomit into a tidy bed of daffodils . |
| 28 | Many of these ‘ deformations ’ may also owe something to the fact that , as Cézanne moved from one section of his canvas to another , he unconsciously altered the structure of objects in an effort to relate rhythmically each passage of painting to the areas around it.1 But apart from emphasizing the aesthetic or two-dimensional plane on which he was working , the tipping forward of certain objects or parts of objects also gives the sensation that the painter has adopted variable or movable viewpoints and that he thus has been able to synthesize into a single image of an object a lot of information gathered from looking at it from a series of successive viewpoints . |
| 29 | But because Lord Elton 's team was established as a Committee of Enquiry to look into a serious and immediate problem , it was precluded by its terms of reference from addressing the more fundamental questions concerning the conflict between teachers ' autonomy and children 's rights . |
| 30 | In my experience , certain essential oils , cedarwood in particular , can cause rubber to perish into a sticky mess . |