Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] into [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 2 | ‘ I regret ever allowing you to talk me into this crazy scheme ! ’ she exclaimed as she slid into bed and pulled the duvet up to her chin . |
| 3 | I hope to initiate you into this important part of life … to teach you about such things . ’ |
| 4 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 5 | Since English people are also stereotyped in Ulster in various ( usually unfavourable ) ways , it was probably equally important that my mixed , but mainly Scottish , accent made it extremely difficult for subjects to fit me into any clear popular category . |
| 6 | Or the experiences and social importance of women may be particularly misrepresented through the need to fit them into pre-defined male-oriented sociological categories . |
| 7 | The difficulty in the case of shares is to fit them into any normal legal category ; but one is unlikely to be left in doubt whether something is or is not a share . |
| 8 | The alternative , when plutonium is seen as a fuel , is to load it into existing Russian reactors , unused to the stuff and already regarded as unsafe by outsiders . |
| 9 | During the period 1560 to 1640 , virtually all these conformist English Protestants shared a set of common doctrinal beliefs , but in terms both of liturgical preference and intensity of commitment it is possible to divide them into two broad and fluid categories : a mainstream Protestant majority which was relatively content with the hybrid character of the Elizabethan church ; and a minority , labelled ‘ Puritan ’ by their contemporaries , which aspired to bring about further reform of that church in the direction of continental Protestantism . |
| 10 | While each college is to a large extent sui generis it is possible to divide them into three main groups . |
| 11 | and it was too much hassle to put her into any other job . |
| 12 | Rather , they rely on a tripartite classification , originally set out by Braudel , to divide it into three distinct elements . |
| 13 | If we are to explore the actual and perceived experiences of students , it may be better to work from their views rather than to try to squeeze them into some predetermined mould through questionnaires and attitude Inventories . |
| 14 | ‘ Your Grace , my father is but a merchant , and to marry me into this noble family he gave me a noble dowry , eight hundred marks . |
| 15 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 16 | I did not really have the heart for such things , but I knew I should be interrogated on my return , and I was aware that she was merely trying hard to push me into normal post-war life . |
| 17 | It was a huge house , too big to survive as a single occupied unit ; a developer had stripped it out and done a thorough conversion to make it into four self-contained apartments with only the hall and stairs common to each . |
| 18 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |