Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wedding and funeral forms , sent in by the families , were passed to me for transposing into the accepted cliches . |
| 2 | A TEENAGE motorist died in a pile-up on the A174 Parkway road in Cleveland after running into the central reservation . |
| 3 | IBM , which announced a major restructuring after plunging into the red last year for the first time in its history , made an after-tax profit of $595m in the three months ending March . |
| 4 | The Frenchmen claimed they were making a film for tunnel owner Eurotunnel but were detained after crossing into the British sector . |
| 5 | Occasionally mainman Simon Breed will become so preoccupied with his crazed exhibition , he neglects the art of singing into the mic , grappling with his guitar as if it were a rabid pitbull while savagely screaming and throwing himself around the stage like an out-take from Nightmare On Elm Street . |
| 6 | Isabel paused in the act of stepping into the worn garment and met her maid 's worried brown eyes . |
| 7 | There are also problems of tapping into the contemporary market in Japan . |
| 8 | The Heart of Wales Line , famous for its beautiful scenic views , was promoted by , amongst others , the London and North Western Railway Company as a means of tapping into the industrial traffic in the Swansea area , with the final section of railway between Builth Road and Llandovery opening in 1868 . |
| 9 | Arguedas , however , was faced with the thorny problem of translating into the alien medium of Spanish the sensibility of a people which expresses itself in Quechua , and his great achievement has been to evolve a style which captures the rhythm and flavour of Quechua to convey the spiritual world of the Andean Indians . |
| 10 | On Saturday the pupils could enjoy the austere pleasures of going into the small granite town of Elgin , something Richard did not enjoy but decided to do because his injured feet ruled out most alternatives . |
| 11 | It 's a bit like that with me , except that instead of going into the technological future I had to go back in time . |
| 12 | I 'm sure you 'll agree it 's a matter of going into the right stock at the right time . |
| 13 | Her emotions were mixed : anticipation , a little ( pleasurable ) fear , a tingling feeling of going into the unknown . |
| 14 | Instead of going into the green room , we went to the girls ' dressing room . |
| 15 | Yeah we 'll restrict it instead of going into the full year |
| 16 | Hitler 's war deprived Wooderson of going into the Olympic arena in Helsinki in 1940 as a hot favourite for the 1500 metres ; Budd 's natural progression was hindered by her country 's policy of apartheid . |
| 17 | The mare stands in the rain , cold and shivering , with no thought of going into the comfortable stable that is in her yard . |
| 18 | The thought of getting into the small shaky enclosure of plaited metal strips which was the lift was suddenly more than he could contemplate . |
| 19 | It was Lucy 's hope of getting into the outer office unchallenged . |
| 20 | Waiting for him , she thought of getting into the big bed . |
| 21 | Thus out of the middle only 27 will have any chance of getting into the top flight and then only into the second round of the Pilkington Cup . |
| 22 | James Shelton aged 25 , and George Barnes , aged 23 , two Liverpool constables , with a taxi-cab driver named Charles Wareing , were accused of breaking into the Co-operative Stores in Wavertree Road and stealing a safe containing £146 . |
| 23 | Fitting the water softener is a matter of breaking into the rising main and ‘ teeing ’ one pipe off to the softener and another from it ; a third pipe connecting the two tees contains a by-pass valve which is shut when the water softener is in use and open when it is not . |
| 24 | One does n't want them to sort of follow it blindly , of course , one wants them to discuss it carefully , very carefully , but it has to sort of fit into the ongoing life of the institution and not be a kind of little game that someone is playing on their own somewhere because they happen to be linked with the university or doing a degree or something . |
| 25 | This quasi-epithelium , first recognizable on the 8th day , is known as the head process ( Figure 1d ) and is the probable precursor of the notochord , pre-chordal plate and , by virtue of intercalating into the outer visceral endoderm layer , of part , although probably not all , of the gut endoderm ( 3 ) . |
| 26 | He was looking forward to Friday 's game with Wigan and the heady possibility of moving into the top three of Division Two . |
| 27 | However , in 1969 , a large-scale American project , JOIDES ( Joint Oceanographic Institutions Deep Earth Sampling ) was able to confirm it , in the course of a programme of drilling into the deep ocean floors to sample the rocks and sediments there . |
| 28 | But after an hour or so of trudging into the stiff wind , a slight feeling of despair crept over me . |
| 29 | Today many young people fail in the task of maturing into the genital phase of adolescence , a process which apparently needs much time ; they do not fully outgrow the phallic stage . |
| 30 | Stung by the Altrincham criticisms , instead of plunging into the British middle classes , the royal household turned to dependable outsiders in the white Commonwealth . |