Example sentences of "[vb past] not [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Shaw hit her unfortunate pinnacle ( ‘ Puppet On A String ’ ) , she decided not to grow into desperate pantomime but discover the importance of real life as far away from the music business as possible . |
| 2 | ‘ We did not go into that lightly , ’ says Mr Garner . |
| 3 | It is important to point out that the department did not go into this exercise " cold " . |
| 4 | However , Mrs Thatcher did not go into any detail about how the suggested British scheme for allowing different currencies to compete freely throughout the Community would necessarily produce the kind of central bank and co-ordinated monetary and economic policies which the others believe is essential . |
| 5 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but obviously I am interested in signing him . |
| 6 | ‘ We did not go into any financial discussions but I am interested in signing him . ’ |
| 7 | He did not go into further detail about the morality or legality of nuclear use or nuclear deterrence , partly no doubt because he favoured an effective world-wide prohibition on nuclear weapons production ( Spaight , 1947 , p. 218 ) and therefore hoped that such issues would not arise . |
| 8 | And , in fact , the characteristic ‘ bourgeois ’ or member of the middle class in our period included few people who did not fit into one or other of these pigeon-holes . |
| 9 | The anxiety about case loads was accompanied by a concern over the provision of ‘ cover ’ together with some concern about the isolation of the development officer 's position , which did not fit into any overall management structure at Age Concern England and left them without a full-time support , supervision and management back-up service . |
| 10 | Those things she knew about Gus Hambro which did not fit into this picture , such as his manipulations over the room at the inn , she did not care to mention to anyone until she herself understood them better . |
| 11 | It also emerged that the oil was a light crude , which meant it dispersed more easily and did not soak into sandy beaches or adhere to birds ' feathers in the way that the heavy crude of the Exxon Valdez had done . |
| 12 | Ten others either gave no answer or did not fall into either of these groups . |
| 13 | The number of tau neutrinos created in the big bang can be worked out ; if they did not decay into other particles , and weighed 17 keV , then the universe would be more than 200 times heavier than it appears — so heavy that it would have collapsed in on itself in a big crunch eons ago . |
| 14 | Legislation had been passed , at the height of the bubble , to stop the creation of new joint-stock companies , which ruled out one of the ways in which the British had organized their expansion overseas , Walpole , the Prime Minister who picked up the pieces after the collapse , was first of all concerned to make sure that the King and his government did not run into any more trouble , which meant a programme of no new taxes , no wars , no new assertion of authority , and much less expansion than either before or after . |
| 15 | They did not enter into lengthy explanations about the sanitary and social implications of such behaviour , because the recruit had more than likely spent his entire life spitting on the floor at home ; the recruit responded to an order backed up with the threat of violence . |
| 16 | Judges , it was thought , did not enter into open controversy with politicians , certainly not in such outspoken language . |
| 17 | It did not come into general use until the latter half of the seventeenth century . |
| 18 | Mrs Hnatiuk 's five little girls were still in elementary school and , consequently , she did not come into frequent contact with high school students . |
| 19 | The kanun , included in a late seventeenth-century anthology ( 1095/1684 ) , purports to reflect the practice of the time of Suleyman , but that the kanun in the form published by Uzuncarsili dates from Suleyman 's time must be rejected on the grounds both that many of the kadiliks mentioned did not attain mevleviyet status until the late sixteenth or seventeenth centuries and that two of them Kandiye ( Candia ) and Kamanice ( Kamenets-Podolskiy ) — did not come into Ottoman hands until 1080/ 1669 and 1083/1672 respectively . |
| 20 | Crawford did not come into that category , but the memory of performing there in Shakespeare 's Coriolanus and Oscar Wilde 's The Importance of Being Earnest was a particularly happy one . |
| 21 | The idea of improving the quality of education did not come into any of the replies . |
| 22 | But that did not translate into congested roads and pressure on commuter buses . |
| 23 | Complaints about the burden of taxation , the oppressive behaviour of royal officials and the costs of the army did not develop into outright opposition to the war on principle . |
| 24 | They called the shots while we were still tiny , and they did n't spring into crushed velvet bell-bottoms in 1966 , just because it was a happening thing to do . |
| 25 | Erm but one thing I would say , is that erm we did n't go into long term erm debt to get things like three pieces and and bedroom suite and things like this . |
| 26 | And you 're quite sure that you did n't go into that room , either of you ? ’ |
| 27 | Oh it did n't go into that , silly . |
| 28 | I did n't go into this line of work to take the easy option every time things get rough . |
| 29 | But she did n't go into any detail . ’ |
| 30 | And therefore your brain was trying to naturally put it into some context but it did n't go into any context so it was difficult |