Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv prt] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 2 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 3 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 4 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 5 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 6 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 7 | Chaps had been called up into the army , nearly all of them that worked with us , they were all on army reserve . |
| 8 | Their glances met , and for a moment Sara felt as though she had been swung out into space . |
| 9 | That cooker had gone now , and the table had been moved down into the basement … |
| 10 | And do you seriously believe that the American or world computer industry would be better today if IBM had been broken up into five pieces 20 years ago , as the 1960s and 1970s trustbusters proposed ? |
| 11 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |
| 12 | She said the oil had been broken down into small particles and was being absorbed by organisms at the bottom of the food chain . |
| 13 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 14 | Taking men of working-class origin of the same age group in 1983 , and signifying unemployment as a separate category , the survey found 22 per cent were upwardly mobile , 40 per cent remained in working-class positions , while a further 11 per cent had been pushed down into unemployment , and over half of this last group had been without work for over a year . |
| 15 | The grass in the middle had been ploughed up into a dustbowl , and here and there pools of dark blood showed where bodies thrown out had lain before being taken away to hospital . |
| 16 | Although by 1086 the Barton estate had been split up into a number of manors , of which only one was still in the hands of the king himself , there can be little doubt that before the Conquest the Anglo-Saxon kings had had here an estate of some seven thousand acres which they kept in hand for their own supplies . |
| 17 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 18 | The Indians had been hived off into reserves like national parks for endangered species , where they made plastic souvenirs for tourists . |
| 19 | She had been seduced back into the house , and now everything was to do again . |
| 20 | The interior of the farmhouse had been opened out into a reception office , though it still had the original stone floor and a pretty impressive fireplace in the middle of one wall . |
| 21 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 22 | Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head . |
| 23 | Property had been thrown out into the streets and burned . |
| 24 | ‘ There were coal-effect gas fires in the living-rooms ; the bathroom was covered in cork tiles , floor to ceiling ; the kitchen had been knocked through into a disastrous tunnel lined with Melamine ; and the roof had been re-tiled in the most revolting red pantiles instead of black slates . |
| 25 | They had discovered it in the bed last night when one of them had found themselves lying on it , and it had been pitched out into the darkness . |