Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pers pn] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 There are two types of Head Hugger available — the 0–9 month variety which fits all 0–9 month car seats , and the Universal Head Hugger , which fits all car seats , using velcro fastening to secure it into position .
2 But unlike Labour , who just want to extend national insurance contributions to all levels of income , we want to consolidate them into income tax .
3 Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship .
4 MIDDLESBROUGH defender Derek Whyte thanks his lucky stars that the English Premier League has licked him into shape for the toughest 90 minutes of his football life .
5 Rate-setting is a springtime routine that all local authorities must perform by April East — This year , in some places , an accumulation of past extravagance , poor accounting an uncertainty about the lawfulness of various bits of figure-shuffling has transformed it into drama .
6 The first is that he has got her into bed so easily and the second is that it seems to mean nothing to her .
7 Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug .
8 It was all very well conceiving these things in the abstract ; the problems emerged when you tried to put them into practice .
9 Meanwhile , ideas for new contrasts and effects keep popping into my head and I can hardly wait to put them into practice .
10 Each time Thomas or Carlo tried to draw her into conversation , the words dried on her lips .
11 These people and a host of others provided ideas and helped to put them into effect ; the guiding hand and political boss was Franklin Roosevelt himself .
12 Her chatting has brought her into conflict , albeit in a humorous way , with Pedrosa .
13 As attorney-general , he visited Belfast monthly and knows the top players in the establishment there , and responsibility for issues such as extradition has brought him into contact with senior figures in the Republic .
14 Inevitably , this has brought them into competition for limited resources with the other activities of the polytechnics and colleges .
15 This has brought them into conflict with the fishing industry as the harvesting of abalone is commercially important .
16 The one that for the past five years has brought us into crisis , anarchy , and economic decay ? "
17 As well as starring and directing , he has adapted the play for the screen , though that is n't to say , quite , that he has translated it into film language .
18 Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required .
19 The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people .
20 His brief has converted him into Labour 's chaos and disaster spokesman .
21 When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’
22 Although we have a joint account , he is the one who has taken it into overdraft and I do n't see why I should do as he suggests .
23 ‘ Yes Please ’ is n't designed to blow you into oblivion , more lull you into a false sense of security .
24 UNFORTUNATELY BECAUSE OF THE CAPPING , THEY 'VE COME TO TAKE YOU INTO CARE !
25 These included shooting it into space on board a rocket so that its deadly payload would disappear into infinity .
26 When moderate areas , principally Nottinghamshire , failed to comply , Yorkshire miners tried to bring them into line by picketing their pits .
27 The long ones can be shortened to bring them into line , and broken ends tidied up by clean cutting .
28 ‘ Well , sir , ’ Doone said , laying the books aside , ‘ we can trace the path of ideas about the trap , but who do you think put them into practice ? ’
29 Our dominant motivations are those of rational self-interest and they tend to lead us into crime because crime , however defined , involves self-restraint .
30 I 'd seen the play — some touring company did it — they 'd made it into SF , all in space , and Oedipus was a two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox character trying to kiss his mother with one of his faces and weep sorrowful tears with the other .
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