Example sentences of "have [verb] [pron] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MIDDLESBROUGH defender Derek Whyte thanks his lucky stars that the English Premier League has licked him into shape for the toughest 90 minutes of his football life . |
| 2 | Rate-setting is a springtime routine that all local authorities must perform by April East — This year , in some places , an accumulation of past extravagance , poor accounting an uncertainty about the lawfulness of various bits of figure-shuffling has transformed it into drama . |
| 3 | The first is that he has got her into bed so easily and the second is that it seems to mean nothing to her . |
| 4 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 5 | It 's obvious Peter has got himself into money difficulties and hit on the idea of producing a fiancée in order to get his hands on his share as the quickest way of solving them . |
| 6 | Her chatting has brought her into conflict , albeit in a humorous way , with Pedrosa . |
| 7 | As attorney-general , he visited Belfast monthly and knows the top players in the establishment there , and responsibility for issues such as extradition has brought him into contact with senior figures in the Republic . |
| 8 | Inevitably , this has brought them into competition for limited resources with the other activities of the polytechnics and colleges . |
| 9 | This has brought them into conflict with the fishing industry as the harvesting of abalone is commercially important . |
| 10 | The one that for the past five years has brought us into crisis , anarchy , and economic decay ? " |
| 11 | As well as starring and directing , he has adapted the play for the screen , though that is n't to say , quite , that he has translated it into film language . |
| 12 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 13 | His brief has converted him into Labour 's chaos and disaster spokesman . |
| 14 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 15 | Although we have a joint account , he is the one who has taken it into overdraft and I do n't see why I should do as he suggests . |
| 16 | After the searing , palpitating mass of the album 's centrepiece — the gargantuan segue of ‘ Down And Away ’ and ‘ Turned Inside Out ’ — has blown itself into oblivion , Hank is heard introducing the band as ‘ Geezer Butler , Bill Ward , Tony Iommi and myself — Ozzy Osbourne ’ . |
| 17 | After the searing , palpitating mass of the album 's centrepiece — the gargantuan segue of ‘ Down And Away ’ and ‘ Turned Inside Out ’ — has blown itself into oblivion , Hank is heard introducing the band as ‘ Geezer Butler , Bill Ward , Tony Iommi and myself — Ozzy Osbourne ’ . |
| 18 | I 'd seen the play — some touring company did it — they 'd made it into SF , all in space , and Oedipus was a two-headed Zaphod Beeblebrox character trying to kiss his mother with one of his faces and weep sorrowful tears with the other . |
| 19 | A silly little girl who 'd got herself into trouble ! |
| 20 | Just another little Irish girl who 'd got herself into trouble . ’ |
| 21 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 22 | In fact , if Matilda 's messenger had n't carried a letter to the Queen explaining the ‘ unfortunate misunderstanding ’ that had resulted in Isabel 's ‘ ill-considered ’ flight from Gloucester with fitzAlan 's assistance , she was quite sure William of Ypres would have clapped her into prison until he had verified her story for himself . |
| 23 | Then he began to change his ground , to slip from real remorse into disguised anger , saying that he should never have trapped me into domesticity , meaning , of course , that I should never have trapped him , and , instead of getting angry underneath — as I had earlier when he was being honest with me — I felt an enormous , trembling sympathy with him and begged him to stop : he was n't , after all , responsible for everything . |
| 24 | When she entered the room , she directed an unfriendly look at Harold — so far as I remember making no sound — and , seeing where I was sitting , directed a glance at me that , for anyone of lesser resolution , would undoubtedly have turned me into stone . |
| 25 | So if we can look at the relatively small numbers , albeit , I mean , tragic numbers of people who have been harmed or died , we do have to set it into perspective against risks in other walks of life and against the enormous benefits that medicines have done . |
| 26 | Southey wrote long afterwards that he was astonished at this turn of events , since Coleridge , such a short time before , had talked of being ‘ deeply in love with a certain Mary Evans ’ ; Coleridge , on the other hand , was later to blame Southey for having persuaded him into marriage against his will . |
| 27 | If Mr Clinton had offered more , it would have got him into trouble elsewhere . |
| 28 | The characteristic contribution of the senior civil servant lies not so much in the originality and imagination he or she may display in thinking up new policies — these can be a positive nuisance without the ability to convince and lead those , often outside the service , who will have to put them into effect — but the skills to recognize promising new ideas and the opportunities to develop them , and to exploit the opportunities when they occur . |
| 29 | The contributors are not making the easy assumption that to validate their experience women do not have to put themselves into question ; on the contrary , it must be recognised that to be a feminist theorist may involve some painful and hard-won putting into question of the beliefs and commitments that are the point of departure . |
| 30 | A man who has a job that could possibly have brought him into contact with the victims , though I do n't think so myself . |