Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 2 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 3 | Jesus ' sufferings draw us into the love of God and show us how much he loved us . |
| 4 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 5 | Neither of them felt up to leading and their enquiring eyes forced me into the lead . |
| 6 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 7 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 8 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
| 9 | At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels . |
| 10 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 11 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 12 | Doom Divers take their opportunity very seriously , practising for weeks by jumping off increasingly taller rocks , strengthening their arms by flapping their wings as they run about in circles , and getting trolls to throw them into the air . |
| 13 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 14 | We might as well both be invisible , she told herself with irritation , conveniently forgetting Luke 's earlier attempts to draw her into the conversation . |
| 15 | But you 've probably noticed the ad count has risen considerably in recent months , due to the fact that we 've upped the pages to five and edited out some of the waffle ( which the waffler pays for , I might add ) in order to ensure that most ads make it into the desired issue . |
| 16 | The gods turned him into the flower that bears his name . |
| 17 | One of the officers showed me into the aeroplane and himself sat down in the pilot 's seat . |
| 18 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
| 19 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 20 | The staves were subjected to heat , usually from a small fire of shavings to form them into the characteristic shape . |
| 21 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 22 | Efforts to turn him into the new Olivier met a similar fate . |
| 23 | Good , she told herself fiercely , swinging away from the view and collecting the glasses to take them into the kitchen . |
| 24 | Fleeing the slaughter , he hid himself in Hamilton Kirk where : ‘ A number of other fugitives following him into the church were pursued by the dragoons , who , regardless of their cries for mercy , butchered them in the sacred place . ’ |
| 25 | It undeniably happens to be the case that these phenotypic effects have largely become bundled up into discrete vehicles , each with its genes disciplined and ordered by the prospect of a shared bottleneck of sperms or eggs funnelling them into the future . |
| 26 | An ANC statement on Jan. 27 expressed regret that the PAC was controlled by hostile forces , and that efforts to bring it into the main course of the armed struggle had failed . |
| 27 | In some of the odes , this compositional method has a wayward look , perhaps leaving the modern reader with the suspicion that the poem is structurally flawed.1 It is not particularly troublesome in " Diffugere nives " ; even so , there are throughout the poem points at which a reader needs to take connections on trust , or ventures to read them into the text , because they are not foregrounded or overtly articulated . |
| 28 | ‘ And how did the Israelis get you into the police ? ’ |
| 29 | Reconstructed interiors and extensive displays take you into the world of James Herriot . |
| 30 | If the performer ca n't stand the heat at this stage of their career , we 're doing no favours pushing them into the kitchen . |