Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [vb pp] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 2 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 3 | But Dr Jones 's involvement with industry has led him into difficulties — which lend a critical edge to the parable . |
| 4 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 5 | When the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands , East went on television that night to clean up the mess that his right hon. Friend the Leader of the Opposition had put him into again , he did not look pleased about it . |
| 6 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 7 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 8 | The wind had turned it into an octopus and the old lady muttered , ‘ Oh dear , oh lord , oh good heavens , what a nuisance . ’ |
| 9 | Within weeks Stagecoach had turned them into $ 5.1 million and still had half the operation left . |
| 10 | The President had got himself into bed and covered himself with the sheet . |
| 11 | Once the fungus has dug itself into the vagina , it is difficult to dislodge and the normal bacteria , particularly the lactobacillus , find it hard to reestablish themselves . |
| 12 | Dreams and reality had collided in her shocked mind with stunning force , sending her hurtling over the edge of that invisible precipice , and the fall had broken her into a thousand agonising pieces , like brittle shards of glass that could never be whole again . |
| 13 | There was the sound of feet being carefully wiped on the doormat , as once sharply requested by Mrs Stych soon after her marriage had taken her into polite circles . |
| 14 | What strange quirk of fate had forced her into working for Nathan Bryce — the most handsome , fascinating and ruthless man she had ever met ? |
| 15 | He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed . |
| 16 | As attorney-general , he visited Belfast monthly and knows the top players in the establishment there , and responsibility for issues such as extradition has brought him into contact with senior figures in the Republic . |
| 17 | It was partly about fairs but mainly about Theme Parks , which is what big business has made them into in the US and what they are becoming here . |
| 18 | They know every track and ledge in the slag ; know how the rain has carved it into gulleys where now the snow lies deep as a crevasse ; know how the surface of the slag is in parts rotten as scree , an in others as hard as iron . |
| 19 | ‘ Have a cushion behind your head , ’ said Dimity , when the rector had lowered himself into an armchair . |
| 20 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 21 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 22 | Nothing else , for the rectory belonged to the church , and she had discovered that her late husband 's public generosity had run him into considerable debt . |
| 23 | The unremitting pressure of their role in the politics and violence of Lebanon 's civil war had bonded them into a partnership that meant as much to him personally as professionally . |
| 24 | Robbie was willing to bet Fen 's appearance had charmed her into saying that . |
| 25 | Did you know what a nasty business your husband 's got himself into ? ’ |
| 26 | MY DAUGHTER and her husband have got themselves into a ridiculous situation and , though I could happily bang their heads together , I feel I 've got to help them . |
| 27 | " The Meeting have taken it into Consideration the Complaints which every member of this Meeting have now stated , that their Dykes and Inclosures are very much Damaged and broke down by passengers assuming to themselves a right to take Cross and Short Cuts thro' Inclosures … |
| 28 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 29 | Few singers have ever matched her musical intelligence or her strange , foggy timbre , and her exquisite agony has made her into something of an icon . |
| 30 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |