Example sentences of "[to-vb] into the [noun sg] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is easy for us to slip into the assumption that the institutional , professional and curricular structures with which we are familiar are somehow natural or inevitable . |
| 2 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 3 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 4 | This way , with the connections all at the rear and the rack components connected to a mains distribution board within the rack housing , the patch cables ( of which there can be quite a few ) need never be touched , and a single mains cable is usually all that 's needed to plug into the wall and power the whole thing up . |
| 5 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
| 6 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
| 7 | What were you going to write into the book if he did n't pay you ? ’ |
| 8 | It was almost under the mare 's hoofs when it saw fit to leap into the air and then dart away at speed . |
| 9 | In April a restlessness seemed to come into the air as the village began to throw off the lethargy of winter . |
| 10 | Minority groups had the chance to come into the studio and put over their point of view . |
| 11 | A friend who had a key let herself in and called upstairs , but I did n't want anyone to come into the bedroom because they might catch whatever it was I had . |
| 12 | The arrangement was that they were happy for members of the family to come into the business and , in a sense , find their own level . |
| 13 | He held his hand out in a gesture for her to come into the house but in that second she knew she never could . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'll have to come into the house and sober up before he 's fit to take the cart home . |
| 15 | But somewhere along the line the input of those on the other side of the ropes , many there for the price of $800 ( £500 ) , has to come into the account and the argument is faulted . |
| 16 | In a declining market one might well expect a business that had earlier established a dominant share position to be able to trade on this position in the short run and increase prices and profits , because rivals are unlikely to come into the market or compete strongly for market share . |
| 17 | If someone very close ( a member of your family , for instance ) were to come into the room while you were in that state , you would be aware of it but you probably would not move or do anything about it because it felt ‘ right ’ . |
| 18 | He went hastily towards the door ; he did n't want Martin to come into the room because then he might break down and say things about his mother that were best left unsaid . |
| 19 | Th there are a number of papers , and we 're going to start off this morning er with , when people , just I 've started actually speaking here so that er to allow people time to come into the room and I know that here we are . |
| 20 | He was very friendly with erm who was in charge of the Extra Mural Board and erm then possibly because of this connection erm we were asked by the erm Ministry of Defence to provide lectures and courses for erm units of H M Forces stationed in the area and erm so a panel of lecturers was erm formed and erm they used to go out , the , the units used to have their own Education Officers , usually a sergeant or perhaps a second lieutenant and erm they used to come into the office and say that they 'd like somebody to go out to their Searchlight Unit or A A Unit stationed somewhere out in the sticks and er lecture on this that or the other and erm we were supposed to try and fix them up and erm the panel erm , it had quite a number of erm people on it that erm , I ca n't remember who they all were , I know that erm you 'd hardly believe this but there was a chap named Mr and another chap named Mr |
| 21 | It was the sort of thing said about someone who was unable to come into the office or , worse , for disciplinary reasons was prevented from doing so . |
| 22 | For example , loading the stomach with food or water directly has some satiating effect , but not as great as when the substance is also allowed to pass into the intestine or has previously passed through the mouth . |
| 23 | Lt Ferris may have been caught-out by the P-51 's undesirable characteristic that in a tight turn , will a full fuselage tank , the aircraft tended to tighten into the turn and stall out before the pilot could regain control . |
| 24 | Just as before , I had spent the intervening three months ‘ supporting ’ myself and this time I was so confident I was able to march into the hospital and into the consulting room certain that whatever I had or had had I was now on top of it . |
| 25 | Well the standpipe used to freeze up and er when that occurred the grown men in the house used to light a fire round the standpipes , of course it was cast iron it was n't copper or anything like that , and light a fire to thaw it out , I do n't remember ever being without water but we used , it was a bit primitive but burn newspaper and stuff round the standpipe and er the old as I say we used to , the water for the washing we used to pump into the sink and er fill the old dolly tub with water for the washing and use the rainwater for washing . |
| 26 | In the UK , companies pay in order to discharge into the sea and , as Greenpeace has always claimed , we effectively sell licences to pollute . |
| 27 | We would then give them a consent to discharge into the river and we would make sure that that consent if it were complied with , did not deteriorate river conditions , river quality conditions . |
| 28 | They blocked the pavement and there was this bloody great lorry up against the path so anybody coming down or up the road had to walk into the road or co , cross the road to the other side ! |
| 29 | He suspected that if he were to walk into the newsroom and make an arrest there would be only a momentary gasp before someone was out with the first of a new crop of jokes . |
| 30 | so , if I was to walk into the place that was selling these |