Example sentences of "[verb] its [noun pl] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The organization of bureaucracy educated its members into the proper fulfilment of their duties ( Perez-Diaz 1978 , p. 12 ) . |
| 2 | THE Government whipped its supporters into the Lords last night to defeat a final attempt by Labour to give shareholders the right to decide on company donations to political parties . |
| 3 | For a moment it looked as if the classic capture was about to take place : the low , lean greyhound was about to sink its teeth into the boar . |
| 4 | The cat is transfixed by this appealing sight and pounces , sinking its teeth into the prey . |
| 5 | The MP 's motion and three parliamentary questions directed at the Attorney-General , Sir Patrick Mayhew , allege the copy was given to the fraud squad to help its investigations into the successful £615million bid for Fraser by the Fayed brothers in 1985 . |
| 6 | The mountain dug its heels into the draff |
| 7 | Until last summer that is , when the relentless Serbian onslaught pounded its homes into the ground . |
| 8 | Moreover , if the Labour Party really threw its energies into the task of winning support in Northern Ireland there is no telling what might happen . |
| 9 | I am sure neither the record company nor Symbols And Instruments share my view , but wait until the mass media gets its claws into the return of the underground . |
| 10 | The whole structure was now owned by the municipality of Jaffa and the museum hoped to extend its galleries into the rest of the building when money was made available . |
| 11 | The normal tendency of such a ‘ preparation ’ ( biologists ' speak for an animal to which they have done something nasty , akin to the use of the term ‘ sacrifice , that I commented on earlier ) is to extend its legs into the liquid bath . |
| 12 | Getting its feet into the black binliner is difficult but I manage by laying it down on its stomach and pretending to play this little piggy with its toes till it goes into its silly reverse-crawl routine . |
| 13 | erm The police have often described themselves as erm in the following way , that society throws its problems into the dustbin and asks the policeman to sit on the lid . |
| 14 | Meanwhile the Serious Fraud Squad is continuing its investigations into the company 's affairs . |
| 15 | An RAF board of inquiry is continuing its investigations into the fire . |
| 16 | Again , like Hambros , Barclays found that ‘ an awful lot of work ’ had to go into converting its figures into the common format agreed for the exercise . |
| 17 | Now it is hoping to take shares in another quartet of carriers and to spread its wings into the world 's biggest single airline market , the United States . |
| 18 | Why trim the grass so short that not even a goat could get its incisors into the chlorophyl ? |
| 19 | and flipped its passengers into the water . |
| 20 | A board of enquiries begun its investigations into the tragedy on the Isle of Harris . |
| 21 | Jamie snaps open the capsule and sprinkles its contents into the palm of his hand . |