Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a good thing we 've booked you into this place , ’ Michael continued . |
| 3 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 4 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 5 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 6 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 7 | This happened first in Germany , when Georg Siemens , the founder and head of Germany 's premier bank , Deutsche Bank , saved the electrical apparatus company his cousin Werner had founded after Werner 's sons and heirs had mismanaged it into near collapse . |
| 8 | The racial success story turns those who have made it into narrative role models for the next generation , who are pledged to follow in their footsteps ‘ one day ’ . |
| 9 | Randy , as you can see , has finally made it into this issue . |
| 10 | Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative . |
| 11 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 12 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 13 | Got them into this place . |
| 14 | It was Clive who had got her into this mess . |
| 15 | Part of her , that stubborn , spirited side , the side that had got her into this mess in the first place , would n't let her give up , back out and admit that Luke Denner and his sexuality were more than she could handle . |
| 16 | So what can he do — having got us into this mess — for the good of OUR people ? |
| 17 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 18 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 19 | She would hardly have dragged her into this boutique if she had wanted a simple discussion on the weather or the price of vegetables . |
| 20 | The Conservative government 's policies on taxation and welfare have brought it into increasing conflict with the Church of England . |
| 21 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 22 | She had seen people die , she had seen them give birth , she had chopped them into little pieces : more significantly , with Charles she had achieved orgasm , which she had never managed with Edgar . |
| 23 | The heart of the problem has been governments ' concern with social justice and an egalitarian distribution of income which has led them into passing legislation which has increased the costs of doing business . |
| 24 | Their diligent enforcement of the Government 's industrial laws has helped to transform the role of the trade unions ; their role as guarantors of public order has led them into bitter conflict with pickets and demonstrators . |
| 25 | I have a severe visual problem and this has led me into wonderful ventures around the galleries , ‘ seeing ’ art in my own way . |
| 26 | I 'm not usually stuck for words , ’ she went on , thinking of the successful extempore speeches she had made in court when her clients had led her into all sorts of impossible positions . |
| 27 | He had picked her up of intent , had followed her into this inn for some purpose of his own . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 30 | So your mum 's cut it up or you 've cut it up this time just between the two of us and you 've cut it into two halves you 've got half there and I 've got another half . |