Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] into " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | They would not normally have dreamed of attempting to get him into or out of the house except under cover of darkness ; but now there was no certainty that they would have even one night of grace . |
| 2 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 3 | A MOTHER accused of trying to turn herself into a human fireball because she had been rejected by the boss she loved , wept yesterday as a jury acquitted her of attempted arson . |
| 4 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 5 | Despite fourteen years of trying to smash us into submission , they 'll fail to break the spirit of the working people of Britain . |
| 6 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 7 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 8 | Southey wrote long afterwards that he was astonished at this turn of events , since Coleridge , such a short time before , had talked of being ‘ deeply in love with a certain Mary Evans ’ ; Coleridge , on the other hand , was later to blame Southey for having persuaded him into marriage against his will . |
| 9 | In a sane world , I thought , we would have discussed the state of my feelings , debated whether I loved Syl sufficiently to commit the rest of my life to him , questioned my views on the institution of marriage , examined my mother 's motives in striving to introduce me into this state , have said something of some interest . |
| 10 | They have been too ready to use one or other of the clashing theses as occasion served , without troubling to bring them into intelligible relation . |
| 11 | but Terry has enough on his plate without having to separate them into maths and this that and the other and photocopy bits and pieces ! |
| 12 | This may be demonstrated by attempting to translate it into French or German . |
| 13 | Robert , let's start by trying to put ourselves into context . |
| 14 | Griffin further argued that it was wrong to attempt to explain girls ' experience by trying to fit them into models derived from studies of male youth . |
| 15 | However , when the courts are considering new situations , they will not be constrained by trying to fit them into existing categories . |