Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow would certainly invade the tops of her boots when she stepped out of the car , and she swore softly in Ruthenian as she retrieved the groceries from the floor of the car and turned to carry them into the house . |
| 2 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You seem determined to drive me into the arms of easier women , Meredith . ’ |
| 4 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |
| 5 | Would it be best to pull them into the alley ? |
| 6 | You do have people from both sexes , of equal abilities and potential strengths , and it would be possible at that stage to have a training pool of people , which perhaps , er redress the balance , and perhaps er gradually have available many people , but you can only do that , if people come forward without skills that you need in order to train them into the jobs . |
| 7 | They all looked blowsy , lipsticky and desperate , locked in a fight with a life set to trample them into the barroom floor , a series of no-account boyfriends too free with their fists and guns , and an incipient obesity that would limit their later careers to shrill mother roles . |
| 8 | Crilly tries to coax me into the booth but I shrug out from under his arms and make an excuse about the family . |
| 9 | England , too , came to realise his significance which is why , since the Carling-Guscott partnership began , they have tried somehow to work him into the side . |
| 10 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 11 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 12 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 13 | Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem . |
| 14 | ‘ We think that the products coming out of this factory are of such a standard and quality that there is a very good potential to sell them into the market , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
| 16 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
| 17 | Would you please go to tag L two , six , six to begin with just to lead you into the chronology , you have told us that in August nineteen eighty seven , er there was really no interest in national budgeting , er national advertising budget , we can see this is a memorandum from you Kevin dated the fourth of August and you 're sending out to the regional marketing executives , there 's no national advertising next year which would be eighty eight . |
| 18 | With a hopeless head for finance and a desperate desire to befriend , Lear was only too willing to receive the attentions of John Gould , then in his mid-20s , and to initiate him into the secrets of the new technique of lithography and the art of ornithological illustration . |
| 19 | Bragg rubbed the tobacco lovingly between his palms , then began to feed it into the bowl of his pipe . |
| 20 | Donald , one of our neighbours , undertook to initiate us into the art of peat-cutting . |
| 21 | The method of scoring products on the two axes in order to fit them into the matrix is that of multi-dimensional screening , taking into account the attributes of the competition as well as the two dimensions already mentioned . |
| 22 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 23 | It was the same when he walked ; he found that he was unsteady on his feet , and liked to have Nathan 's arm to help him into the carriage , as though it were a matter of ordinary courtesy from a younger man to an older . |
| 24 | All the major retailers have agreed to fit it into the women 's weeklies ’ ranks . ’ |
| 25 | Thus the process of contract formation arising out of the exchange of documents containing or referring to standard terms creates considerable problems when one tries to fit it into the framework of offer and acceptance . |
| 26 | You 'd have a problem trying to fit it into the sequence , would n't you ? |
| 27 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 28 | She rummaged in the shed for the fork and emerged even more tousled and grumpy to spike it into the ground with the wish that it was Leo 's indifferent back ! |
| 29 | Behind me , Dennis had erected the punt-pole and was now drunkenly trying to lower it into the water . |
| 30 | Leo carried the pile of crockery into the kitchen and began to load it into the dishwasher . |