Example sentences of "[to-vb] into a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've come to find you ! ’ he cried , struggling back to his feet ; but the words seemed to blur into a shout that was almost meaningless . |
| 2 | His father believed that he had a good eye and could have played the game well if he was not liable to slip into a trance and forget that his attention was needed . |
| 3 | BELOW It is a bad idea to encourage a dog to jump into a vehicle as shown here . |
| 4 | ‘ We are about to stand into an ocean where no ship has ever sailed before , ’ Magellan is said to have cried ( though it has to be reiterated that there is no hard evidence that he dit so ) . |
| 5 | ‘ People would expect me to come into a room and crack them up , ’ Rowan , 36 , told Cosmopolitan magazine . |
| 6 | He is often so busy that the less powerful males are able to disappear into a corner and copulate with his favourite females while his back is turned . |
| 7 | The Bank 's usual policy in this regard is to sell into a rising or stable market . |
| 8 | If there is still more to fit into a week than is humanly possible , do what a doctor advised me to do . |
| 9 | Designed to fit into a corner or against a wall . |
| 10 | You can tell if you are about to walk into a wall or another person . |
| 11 | He became the first man in history to walk into a restaurant and trip over a ceiling . |
| 12 | You 're outrageous you are , you 've got to have the gift of the gab in the first place , that 's just to walk into a shop or office and , my girlfriend 's think that 's what chain |
| 13 | All through our time at Canjuers , through the days of rain and abscesses on our hands , mud and sleeping in sodden clothes , we had dreamed of the moment when we would be able to walk into a cakeshop or bar and be able to buy what we wanted , but now that the choice was available , we did nothing about it . |
| 14 | There were no significant differences in the present study between the never and the previously married although it might be expected that people with children might be less likely to go into a home than those without any and the widowed , divorced , or separated are much more likely to have children than the single : 75 per cent compared with 6 per cent . |
| 15 | Then they frisk you and give you a dressing-gown and tell you to go into a cubicle and strip off and wait . |
| 16 | Or when you 're waiting to go into a meeting and your secretary is still finishing your presentation because the PC is so slow . |
| 17 | We all assumed that because of the , yeah the media pressure , at least talks would start , but I think possibly the management thought that because of this one-sided pressure , you know it seemed at the time that nothing nice was being said about the management , you know you can almost understand them being reluctant to go into a room and offering their side of the argument . |
| 18 | I used to go into a shop and I 'd shake and I 'd know that I was doing wrong and I 'd be really scared and I 'd just knew I do n't want to go to prison so I decide to stop it . |
| 19 | He had a nasogastric tube which was allowed to drain into a bag and was also aspirated every 4 hours to ensure that his stomach remained empty . |
| 20 | It is easier to fall into a pit than to get out again , and the prospects in Sri Lanka are grim . |
| 21 | It is not uncommon for tractors to slide into a stream as they attempt to cultivate every last scrap of land beside a watercourse . |
| 22 | Less than a block ahead the scatterings of low-caste colours had begun to solidify into a group or gauntlet . |
| 23 | To put into a context or situation in order to make a linguistic item easier to understand . |
| 24 | ‘ You 've told me nothing which would have been worth Edwin Garland taking the trouble to put into a letter and leave it with his lawyer . |
| 25 | There is always the temptation to crawl into a hole and let the devil take the lot . |
| 26 | She left his office quietly , too raw to make a scene and attract attention , wanting only to crawl into a corner and hide . |
| 27 | For John Barker , a founding member of the British kite flying movement , and a prime mover among the paradropping enthusiasts like Jim Whitehouse and Greg Locke before him , there was no other possible passenger to harness into a parachute than that childhood and perennial favourite , the ‘ Teddy Bear ’ . |
| 28 | It seems to turn into a street when you get beyond you know , those archways . |
| 29 | A drama which threatened to turn into a tragedy when artistic tempers flared appears to have been resolved . |
| 30 | Unlike past live efforts , however , this is massively entertaining , a rare treat to eavesdrop into a world that is festooned with ugly and crazy behaviour . |