Example sentences of "by [verb] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he battled against the bottle by checking into a private clinic but started drinking as soon as he came out . |
| 2 | The little Third Division side caused a sensation at Anfield a fortnight ago by storming into a 3-0 lead in the first leg of their Coca-Cola Cup tie . |
| 3 | Weary unto death , listless and depressed , Morvael abdicated by walking into the sacred flame of Asuryan . |
| 4 | Gazelles , no less than cheetahs , are subject to cumulative selection , and they too will tend , as the generations go by , to improve their ability to run fast , to react swiftly , to become invisible by blending into the long grass . |
| 5 | By relaunching into the qualifying cauldron nations who had hardly made an impact in the earlier stages the organisers ran the risk of altering the natural hierarchy of the event and , therefore , the result . |
| 6 | The Aboriginal Initiates communicate intuitively with the Dreamtime — the time of their creation — by tapping into a universal reservoir of information containing their racial memory . |
| 7 | Surely , as a society , we need to begin by looking into the social training of our young people . |
| 8 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
| 9 | Lump sum investments can take advantage of the charitable status of public schools by paying into an educational trust run by the schools themselves or the life offices . |
| 10 | With just the ghost of a headwind , our only method of going about was either by dragging our bows round with ten men furiously paddling the dugout canoe , or simply by drifting into the opposite shore and poling our bowsprit off whatever fulcrum presented itself . |
| 11 | It is not unknown for so-called ‘ unspinnable ’ aircraft to come to grief by getting into a stable spin . |
| 12 | Some men might be able to present their own case : Sir John Harington described how he intended to bring forward a suit of his own by getting into the Privy Chamber before the breakfast covers were placed and waylaying the Queen when she came out of her bedchamber . |
| 13 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 14 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 15 | Everton , inspired throughout by Peter Beardsley , killed off the game by romping into a 3–0 lead in 38 minutes and could easily have doubled it . |
| 16 | The tapes — genuine or imitation — can be obtained by mail or by strolling into the X-rated video stores of urban America . |
| 17 | He then gave me a slight shock by lapsing into a brief sort of reverie , and saying that if one had ever felt like ‘ murdering someone ’ , one could never do anything about it . |
| 18 | Certainly there are similarities : he is one of a group of city businessmen confronting their mid-life crisis by plunging into a macho holiday endeavour that goes badly wrong . |
| 19 | He had managed to dislodge the noose from his neck and save himself by jumping into the freezing water below . |
| 20 | Would-be Chancellor John Smith thinks that better roads , schools , hospitals and the welfare of grannies can be satisfied simply by plugging into the surplus cash of ‘ the rich ’ . |
| 21 | Much more impact can be made by delving into the remote corners of society in pursuit of the exotic . |
| 22 | Here it probably happened by sailing into the steep wave resulting in a sudden loss of speed . |
| 23 | ( It does not do this by entering into a forward contract with another party , the risk would always end up somewhere ! ) |
| 24 | Knowing that it is possible to hedge by entering into a forward contract therefore seems to be the thing to do , in conjunction with the proposal just outlined . |
| 25 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 26 | The new area will be created by extending into the adjacent palaces of Mauri and Finestres on the Calle de Montcada . |
| 27 | Improve his blood by marrying into the old line ! ’ |
| 28 | I briefly saw Gina flit by talking into a short-wave radio and was momentarily stunned . |
| 29 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 30 | I believe that bees , butterflies and other insects will visit the screen , and " choose " by bumping into a particular spot on the screen . |