Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] they into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 2 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 3 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 4 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 5 | As he walked he was stuffing them into his mouth . |
| 6 | The aim was to transform them into permanent subsistence farmers or labourers . |
| 7 | It looked as if he was weight-training , then I realized he was bending them into circles so they could be covered in coloured paper and turned into Christmas wreaths . |
| 8 | She had opened a tin of beans , was flopping them into a saucepan at the stove . |
| 9 | A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road . |
| 10 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |
| 11 | For example , the deployment of explosive rats where they would do the most good , or harm ( in wartime the two may be synonymous ) was aided by accompanying them by leaflets saying that the British were delivering rats infected with bubonic plague and the best thing to do with them , if found , was to throw them into a furnace . |
| 12 | But when he looked back over his shoulder for help , Garvey too had descended his ladder and was following them into the nave . |