Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order . |
| 2 | His belly was beginning to pull itself into painful spasms . |
| 3 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 4 | In the wake of IBM 's fateful decision , the relative handful of customers that had not actively sought all the pricing data available were driven to plug themselves into new information sources . |
| 5 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 6 | At Runnymede Bridge , the computer has been brought in to record and check relationships between contexts and to sort them into continuous sequences , thus ultimately helping the archaeologist interpret the sequences as a record of past human activity . |
| 7 | Give winter cauliflowers and spring cabbage a feed of nitrogenous fertiliser , if not already done , to spur them into fresh growth and increase their size and tenderness . |
| 8 | If your list of suspect foods is very extensive , it may be better to split them into two groups and try eliminating each group in turn . |
| 9 | To widen them into new highways would be immensely expensive and responsible for great social dislocation . |
| 10 | This bodily preparation needs to occur so quickly that there is no time for conscious thought , the caveman does not have time to talk himself into this state of readiness . |
| 11 | ICI is proposing to split itself into two companies ; its drugs and agrochemicals operations would become ICI Bio and would be a separate publicly listed company . |
| 12 | If so , America will have missed its best opportunity to lock itself into low inflation . |
| 13 | Okay , what I 'm going to do now is I 'm going to split you in , into groups , I want to split you into two groups , we could have up to you , and the dividing line will be you and then at the back there . |
| 14 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 15 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 16 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 17 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 18 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 19 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 20 | One way to reduce the size of a search tree is to split it into smaller sub-trees representing more manageable sub-problems . |
| 21 | The trick , of course , for those who borrowed when rates were low , is to lock themselves into those rates with fixed-rate borrowing . |
| 22 | However , when the courts are considering new situations , they will not be constrained by trying to fit them into existing categories . |
| 23 | Different recognisers have different areas of strength and weakness , so it may be possible to combine them into one system . |
| 24 | It is a long-established custom to assume that the way to go about making a career is to fit ourselves into ready-made jobs . |
| 25 | She wanted to shriek , to curse him into all eternity — but he had already turned his back and was strolling towards the sitting-room . |
| 26 | A common answer would be to fit it into some form of the practical syllogism : |
| 27 | It is very difficult to tear yourself into enough pieces to make sure that everyone is as happy as they can be . |
| 28 | You 'll have to fit yourself into other surroundings , as I had to do so often . ’ |
| 29 | Do not try to form them into any sort of order ; merely pick them out and write them down . |
| 30 | We never write words without using punctuation to form them into well-defined sentences . |