Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] into [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People found their way round such systems by linking issues to file series based on subject , organisational provenance , or function — the Ministry of X 's file series about Y , the registered files of the Ministry of X 's Y Branch , or the Ministry of X 's files on its discharge of Act of Parliament Y. Since paper records were designed to fit into such registry systems , they carried pointers to their position within them ; file covers , file numbers , cross references to other files in the same series or related file series , and so on . |
| 2 | In fact , almost a hundred years ago , Hawaiian music 's infectious melodies were starting to seep into much of the American continent , to be heard by white audiences in the northern states , the blacks in the South and even Latin Americans . |
| 3 | Chairman you 've got to allow me because by the time I 've finished you wo n't be able to stop me , er , but I mean if there 's a lot of money floating about in this area then I think that er , some committee or other should be looking at the the refurbishment of the courts in Devizes which are a disgrace , and partly the fault of this council when th they were allowed to get into such a state , and I mean at some stage or other , something or else is gon na to have to happen to them and I would hope that the magistrates in their wisdom in some committee or other are , are deciding to take these courts back into use . |
| 4 | — There was no way , though , she was going to step into that pit : Simon 's warning , ‘ Making a fool of you — not as daft as you think — making a fool of you , ’ replayed again and again like a commentary to the pictures in her head . |
| 5 | The American military government resented the presence of UNTCOK since it was bound to inquire into many features of the political scene , some of which were better not pursued from the American viewpoint . |
| 6 | An inquiry was authorised to look into these incidents , but when its chairperson , John Stalker , the Deputy Chief Constable of Greater Manchester Police , was suddenly removed over allegations about his previous conduct as a police officer , it led to speculation that a cover-up was taking place to avoid implicating senior RUC officers in covert and probably illegal operations ( ibid.:70 ) . |
| 7 | No Man was allowed to enter into that heart and live . |