Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 6 | At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity . |
| 7 | ‘ I regret ever allowing you to talk me into this crazy scheme ! ’ she exclaimed as she slid into bed and pulled the duvet up to her chin . |
| 8 | Give winter cauliflowers and spring cabbage a feed of nitrogenous fertiliser , if not already done , to spur them into fresh growth and increase their size and tenderness . |
| 9 | If your list of suspect foods is very extensive , it may be better to split them into two groups and try eliminating each group in turn . |
| 10 | To widen them into new highways would be immensely expensive and responsible for great social dislocation . |
| 11 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 12 | I hope to initiate you into this important part of life … to teach you about such things . ’ |
| 13 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 14 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 15 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 16 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 17 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 18 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 19 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 20 | we had to split it into two . |
| 21 | One way to reduce the size of a search tree is to split it into smaller sub-trees representing more manageable sub-problems . |
| 22 | We wanted to split it into three , |
| 23 | Most of the solar system seems intent to hurl you into 1992 with the greatest éan . |
| 24 | Beginning with one or more of these questions is likely to carry you into other , new areas of your own . |
| 25 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 26 | Or the experiences and social importance of women may be particularly misrepresented through the need to fit them into pre-defined male-oriented sociological categories . |
| 27 | However , when the courts are considering new situations , they will not be constrained by trying to fit them into existing categories . |
| 28 | The difficulty in the case of shares is to fit them into any normal legal category ; but one is unlikely to be left in doubt whether something is or is not a share . |
| 29 | Different recognisers have different areas of strength and weakness , so it may be possible to combine them into one system . |
| 30 | She wanted to shriek , to curse him into all eternity — but he had already turned his back and was strolling towards the sitting-room . |