Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [pron] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So far I have discussed the example of the missile and its specific antidote without stressing the evolutionary , progressive aspect , which is , after all , the main reason for bringing it into this chapter . |
| 2 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 3 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 4 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 5 | Ideas can , and do , occur in a variety of ways , and the process of translating them into successful innovations can be understood better through the uncertainty map . |
| 6 | Secondly , having collated this information , they must find a way of translating it into actual literature . |
| 7 | ‘ I would have written sooner , but I was afraid of getting you into some trouble . |
| 8 | But if romanticism suits the Devil because it has a habit of slipping us into unreality-away from the real battle — it has an even more pernicious aspect . |
| 9 | In clarifying our confidence in another 's consciousness , human or non-human , it was seen to be an error of Griffin 's to pose the problem in terms of putting ourselves into another 's ‘ skin' or to experience their ‘ subjective feelings ’ ( 1984 : 1 , above ) . |
| 10 | I thought if someone brought you to your senses , before it was too late , you 'd have a chance , instead of throwing yourself into any trouble that came along . |
| 11 | ‘ And I 'm sorry , too , ’ puts in Rainbow , ‘ for getting you into this mess in the first place . |
| 12 | This was regarded and listened to with some incredulity by the majority of the airmen , whose main ambition regarding Waafs had much to do with getting them into dark corners , like behind the Naafi , and nothing whatever to do with playing the flute or any other instrument . |
| 13 | Remove the vanilla pod , skim the jam , and let it cool for a few minutes before turning it into small jars . |
| 14 | Rub the meat with salt ( about a couple of tablespoonsful ) and let it stand overnight or at least a few hours before cutting it into 1 ½-inch thick strips along the grooves left by the bones . |
| 15 | ‘ If you can hit your killer 's face before you croak we can probably get him , ’ SOCO said helpfully , as he examined a gory piece of Sellotape before slipping it into one of his brown paper bags and carefully labelling it . |
| 16 | The show will coincide with an international congress of archaeologists , and it is hoped to tour it to the US , France , Japan and Germany before converting it into permanent museum . |
| 17 | Helen will want the wedding to take place from here , but I 'll have to hold her back from making it into such a big affair that it will take months to prepare . ’ |
| 18 | When I apologised for dragging him into this , there was no bitterness in his gracious reply . ’ |
| 19 | He knows how to make people laugh , without whipping them into such a state of excitement that they feel a keen sense of anti-climax when the host of the show comes on . |
| 20 | On the other hand , if the landlord is likely to relet the demised property at the end of the tenancy without incorporating it into any greater unit it may be prudent to spread the termination dates so as to prevent a cash flow crisis , which might be occasioned by too many voids at the same time . |
| 21 | It is all geared to forcing us into zero sum games . |
| 22 | We are , or should be , much more willing to allow children to enjoy the special world of childhood without forcing them into premature adulthood . |
| 23 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 24 | He sliced a quarter-inch off the block and went back to chopping it into fine powder . |
| 25 | WHILE the leaders of all three main political parties seem intent on dragging us into closer union with Europe , there must be millions like me who fought in World War Two to stop Germany dominating the Continent . |
| 26 | Looked at in this way theory then becomes the ordering of facts and findings in a meaningful way and this ordering and building up is of the very essence of scientific enquiry , since without ordering facts and without putting them into some systematic framework there can be no generalizations and no predictions . |
| 27 | To many scholars of the early Anglo-Saxon period the study of artefacts with a view to placing them into dated sequences is archaeology and is accompanied by little or no questioning of the basis of the method . |
| 28 | If the threat of ( big ) wars is small , it will make sense to spend more of that money researching and developing weapons and less on putting them into full-scale production — or on training and feeding expensive troops . |
| 29 | There are no firm legal rules about the proper approach that a company should adopt , but often it will be reasonable to look at the organisation as a whole , without dividing it into separate compartments . |
| 30 | There are other interest hedging products , such as interest rate options , which allow you , at a price , to benefit from favourable movements in interest rates without locking yourself into future rates should these prove unfavourable . |