Example sentences of "[vb pp] in to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SHe had eventually given in to a desire to seek Tammuz out , even though SHe already recognised the signs which meant he wanted to be left alone . |
| 2 | He felt like a moth that had been sucked in to a candle flame , but the fluttering was in his chest . |
| 3 | The water soaks into the ground and becomes sucked in to a sandstone strata , which holds it like a sponge under the city . |
| 4 | Oliver was gently carried in to a bed , and received more care and kindness than he had ever had in his life . |
| 5 | She 'd booked in to a hotel on the Place Gambetta , had a leisurely bath to iron out the kinks of the journey , then followed the receptionist 's directions to the old part of the town , a maze of narrow streets where old timbered buildings leaned amiably towards each other . |
| 6 | Well er he 's , she 's got two kids , little ones and has moved in to a house du n no whether it 's with her or not but he 's very touchy about the subject when anybody asks cos Johnny said oh I 'm sorry to hear about you and he g he go goes oh I suppose you know it all do you ? |
| 7 | But by nineteen ninety one , that had turned in to a deficit of a hundred million and one prediction suggests the deficit would have widened dramatically to six hundred and forty million pounds by the end of the decade . |
| 8 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 9 | TWO exorcists were called in to a drive a ghost from a hospital ward after frightened nurses refused to work there . |
| 10 | Independent scaffolding : So called because it is self supporting and not tied in to a structure except as temporary restraint . |
| 11 | 4 The same piece of string , 36cm long , can be pulled in to a lot of different rectangles all having the same perimeter , but different areas . |
| 12 | His body was entirely missing below the waist , the stump of his torso being plugged in to a cybercart of softly gurgling tubes , which he controlled with his one remaining flesh-and-bone hand . |
| 13 | After the reception , the guests were piped in to a buffet dinner . |