Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb pp] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roofs of houses drained into the internal courts , the water being collected in a cistern beneath . |
| 2 | Ludens , steadying Marcus 's head with one hand , his fingers plunged into the short hair , and slowly and firmly moving the very sharp instrument , felt like an acolyte performing a dangerous task , perhaps intended as a test . |
| 3 | Her fingers clenched into the soft material of her flame-coloured dress , crushing the delicate fabric . |
| 4 | Because of the way in which this relief is given , the managers would wish to " front load " the losses sustained into the first year of trading , which they may be able to achieve by incurring expenditure for which capital allowances are available . |
| 5 | Her eyes drilled into the innocent carpet . |
| 6 | A Lancashire miner 's daughter , whose grandmother ‘ was very sprightly , very clean … very like prigmeat , you know , everything in its place ’ , remembers how one of her brothers moved into the next-door house when he married , and ‘ they helped with them when they were older . ’ |
| 7 | Alain flung himself into a chair , his lips twisted into the old sardonic smile . |
| 8 | I was relatively successful and after three or four months moved into the Criminal Investigation Department , as a detective constable , pursuing local villains for the thefts , shopbreakings , burglaries , and petty frauds which were our bread and butter . |
| 9 | Squatters , escapees and network junkies moved into the abandoned hulks . |
| 10 | She took a step nearer , and her ears moved into the forward position . |
| 11 | PEOPLE in the West are talking about traps built into the proposed DDR travel liberalisation law . |
| 12 | This protected what Lord Bridge called the safeguards built into the judicial review procedure which protected from ‘ harassment ’ public authorities on whom Parliament imposed a duty . |
| 13 | Parliament is to be taken to have intended that the difficulties such a wide ambit may create will be sufficiently overcome by two safeguards built into the statutory scheme . |
| 14 | Perhaps because of disincentives built into the Supplementary Benefit system , the ‘ zero-earner couple ’ category is bigger than one would expect if the wives of unemployed men had the same economic activity rates as the wives of employed men ( see Rimmer , 1987 , p. 44 for a discussion of this phenomenon ) . |
| 15 | For example , once a list goes beyond the optimal number , it must be un-linked , and the words built into the standard 26-way node method , with new items added in linked lists hanging from these new nodes , until they in turn reach the optimal value , and so on . |
| 16 | Six goals rattled into the United net — a disaster , a nightmare , |
| 17 | It might have been better at Vladimir for Holly than for the zeks herded into the communal cell blocks , but he had learned to eat what food was provided . |
| 18 | All through her life , even at moments when her difficulties seemed overwhelming , Constance would remember her father 's words declaimed into the vast skies of Northumberland : ‘ Never be afraid , Constance . |
| 19 | The action belonged exclusively to the second half with two goals packed into the first 100 seconds of the period . |
| 20 | INSIGNIA SOLUTIONS INVITED INTO THE SELECT BAND THAT HAVE LICENCES TO MICROSOFT WINDOWS SOURCE |
| 21 | Bands visible in lanes 1 , 2 , 7 , 8 and 13 are due to [ 32 P ] 5'-end labels introduced into the synthetic oligonucleotides as indicated ; bands in the other lanes are due to 3 H introduced into the reactions as tritiated methyl group of SAM . |
| 22 | Kirov 's eyes bored into the bright , expanded pupils of his comrade , seeing the joy of life and living which they rejected , and feeling the icy coldness of death which he bore to extinguish it . |
| 23 | Bypassing the entrance to the huge living-room , which looked dim and shadowy in the faint glow from the circular night-lights sunk into the wooden-slat ceiling , she followed the passageway until she came to another flight of steps , which obviously led down to the lowest level of the house . |
| 24 | One of the Great Danes was simultaneously clambering into my lap , trying to get all four legs fitted into the available footage , under the delusion that she was some other size . |
| 25 | We had the machine shops divided into the main er machine shop and the other sections . |
| 26 | The inroads made into the male strongholds are small , but the progress is remarkable when one sets sixty years now against preceding millennia in which western world women only existed in a family and under male domination . |
| 27 | A small room below the Operations Centre at CI5 : a room laid out like a telephone exchange , with junction boxes on the wall , and switchboards built into the smooth panels that were the work surfaces ; a quiet room , save for the hiss of the air conditioning and the easy movements of two men in chairs , monitoring flickering TV screens . |
| 28 | The former curriculum and courses unit situated some miles from Accra has been closed and its personnel transferred into the new division . |
| 29 | The two Omani brothers had joined us , their head scarves twisted into the flat turbans of their own country . |
| 30 | Nails turned into the industrial estate roadway , and roared up the hill to the hangar-like stables at the top . |