Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 2 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
| 3 | But anything other than aquiescence with the regent could only tie them into political and ideological knots of Gordian proportions . |
| 4 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 5 | Again from Australia had come Sister May Kenny with her method of nursing the child incessantly in the arms , massaging the withering limbs and gently lowering them into warm water . |
| 6 | As John Cook pointed out in the preceding chapter , it mistakenly assimilates the concepts of capacities like understanding , thinking , remembering , and the other psychological verbs to those of sensations like pain , and thus turns them into specific yet insubstantial and wholly mysterious inner states , available only to private introspection , which correlate in some way with their behavioural signs . |
| 7 | Ragusa was able , however , to develop its overland trade with the Balkan hinterland , as this activity did not bring it into direct competition with the seaborne trade of Venice . |
| 8 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 9 | Coleridge was not only a willing listener to Southey 's ideas , but was soon developing them into grand and Utopian principles during long hours spent in Oxford ‘ disputing on metaphysical subjects ’ . |
| 10 | — to respect the non-aligned status chosen by the Persian Gulf countries ; not to draw them into military groupings to which nuclear powers are party ; |
| 11 | If you have never touched a programming language in your life then QBasic is a great place to start — it is direct and to the point but it will not lead you into bad habits . |
| 12 | Her boobs may look like a couple of wrung-out teabags , but her granite stomach muscles somehow propel her into perfect proportion . |
| 13 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
| 14 | I just thought , yeah , I could just get him into big shit now ! |
| 15 | I think that just puts it into bloody perspective |
| 16 | Right , we 've been postponing this discussion , I know , erm because we 've not sort of felt er we 've not fitted it into previous meetings . |
| 17 | We 've already cleared you into Russian airspace . |
| 18 | Cos in those days , some of the homes just pushed them into domestic service and that kind of thing . |
| 19 | Do you think these vague presentiments of a beyond or after could ever draw you into organized religion ? |
| 20 | The ability to make long-range plans is at a premium in early middle game , and the machine 's low level of ability in this department usually gets it into terrible trouble . |
| 21 | If some friend of Ali 's did n't get him , then the Twenty-fourth Imam would probably grind him into little pieces . |
| 22 | Gironella 's many versions of Velázquez 's Mariana similarly fragment her into different roles — queen , woman , icon , cadaver , carnival figure , victim , aggressor . |
| 23 | It is what children do quite naturally and in many under-developed countries people carry on doing it into old age . |
| 24 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
| 25 | The reminder , so sharp and painful , in the sudden appearance of that man now threw her into aching grief . |
| 26 | Extreme centralism and bureaucratic conservatism which characterise the USSR often plunge it into detailed consideration of procurement policy , but not on a continuous basis . |
| 27 | It was normal practice to live at home with one 's parents until marriage ( and women who did not marry usually continued to live with parents , often supporting them into old age , see below ) . |
| 28 | They were always changing them to try and balance up the take I suppose , on each , each leg of the route and there was always was the chief clerk then and him and I got on very well together and he really initiated me into running times . |
| 29 | Pressure from avant-garde patrons like Lord Chesterfield and , by the look of Clifton Hill 's garden front , Paul Fisher , often forced him into Rococo compromises with his Palladian inclinations . |
| 30 | The big three's domination is such that their nearest rivals Limerick do n't even make it into double figures . |