Example sentences of "[to-vb] into [adj] [noun] but " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can see that perhaps if they want to have a er they may feel they need to stray into other boundaries but I did feel that when I read what Huntingdon district council proposed which was if you like , to completely re-drawing the electoral map for the entire county I was n't actually looking at something that was designed to deal with the interests of the citizens of Huntingdon district council , I was looking at the straightforward political proposal which would be far better to come from a political party than from a district council . |
| 2 | You will be physically smaller and able to fit into smaller clothes but you will still be flabby and unfit , or , if you overdo it , you will be little more than skin and bone . |
| 3 | After Shaw hit her unfortunate pinnacle ( ‘ Puppet On A String ’ ) , she decided not to grow into desperate pantomime but discover the importance of real life as far away from the music business as possible . |
| 4 | He was clearly not content to sink into idle retirement but was soon full of schemes to open up Hannafore , then reachable only by a path that climbed steeply over a down that fell sharply to the Looe river in a precipitous cliff . |
| 5 | I know it must sound terribly irresponsible to get into this position but , truthfully , it 's a case of of ‘ heart ruling head ’ . ’ |
| 6 | Sometimes that world can seem unfair , but even when he lost his driving licence for a year for failing to give a breath test , he quipped : ‘ I really tried to blow into that machine but I 'm a singer not a bugler . ’ |
| 7 | The judge concluded that there was thus a direct financial inducement for the agent not to enter into such activities but to restrict his post-termination employment to non-competing activities . |