Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] into the " in BNC.

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1 The rapid installation of a large number of systems around the country and , in some cases , overseas created a large number of novel problems and as these arose they were fed into the diagnostic expert system in their central facility and were available for consultation when other units phoned in with a problem .
2 An aunt had been named as the testamentary guardian of the children but , through no fault of hers , was unable to care for them and they were received into the care of the local authority .
3 Politically , relations remained tense for much of this middle period , sufficiently so to affect economic links between England and France , and England was allied with the semi-independent feudatories of the French Crown , Burgundy and Brittany , on a number of occasions until they were absorbed into the lands of the Valois dynasty in 1477 and 1492 respectively .
4 They were integrated into the large body of at least 229 painters and makers of images recorded in the taxation rolls for Paris between 1292 and 1313 .
5 Now they were stumbling into the front row of people , on to rough grass .
6 One of the circumstances which was known , or ought to have been known , to the parties at the time they were entering into the contract was that in certain circumstances the clause would clearly be unenforceable ( namely , in the area of liability for death or personal injury ) .
7 Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race .
8 An authority spokeswoman said they were looking into the complaint .
9 At the Franz Joseph he was greeted with great style and they were led into the terrace restaurant , to a table with a magnificent view over the whole of the Hochhauser valley , once more covered in snow .
10 They were heavier and more noisy than wood — and quite hard on the tummy when they were pushed into the ground .
11 They were flung into the air as the car smashed through a concrete wall before coming to rest on its side in a garden at Darlaston , West Midlands .
12 The car pushed them through the garden wall and they were flung into the air and landed in the next garden .
13 The investments were extremely profitable , however , and the companies were among the most successful in the country when they were nationalized into the NCB in 1947 .
14 Wesley made little progress with agricultural labourers because they were tied into the rigidities of the traditional social order , although he blamed it on the stolid stupidity of the peasantry , but in many mining and manufacturing villages Methodism throve .
15 Some were so bulky that they were borne into the Rante sitting upright like pugnacious lords in specially constructed litters , carried by as many as eight straining porters .
16 But one of the ironies of life in the border districts was that it also produced Poles who became more German the more nearly they were incorporated into the Polish state , and Poles and Jews whose political opinions were so far to the right that only their ethnic , religious or national identity stood between them and the Nazi Party .
17 Drivers and conductors had to wait three years , they had to be employed three years before they were accepted into the pension scheme but you know , believe me I 'm glad that I paid in for it .
18 They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch .
19 They were invited into the classrooms to take part in some of the activities the pupils had been engaged in during the past term .
20 She did not understand what he had meant until they were getting into the car .
21 Within the shortest space of time , they were walking into the lounge of an hotel that had seen better days but was still surprisingly well patronised ; by a variety of habitués , mostly male , and all , whether uniformed or civilian , contriving to give the place an air of distinction .
22 As they were walking into the square , David did venture to ask whether Julia had yet got over her aversion to St Mark 's itself .
23 Soon they were pulling into the car park .
24 Many of those who moved were deeply ashamed and riddled , with guilt as they were bussed into the plant , hiding under the seats from their former colleagues on the picket at the gate .
25 Now they were seeping into the consciousness of people within a milieu which , rejecting straight left politics , was searching for a route out of a hippy enclave at a time when the political temperature was rising .
26 Of all the Soviet nationalities , the Baltic nations looked the most likely to establish ( or as they saw it , resume ) their independent statehood in the 1990s ; their opportunity to do so came soon after the attempted coup when ( in September 1991 ) the USSR Council of State formally approved their independent status and they were admitted into the United Nations and other international organisations .
27 Furthermore , they were recruited into the trial immediately after their gall stone dissolution had been confirmed — rather than months or years later .
28 Jews had a better chance of effecting the transition if , for example , they were recruited into the army as children .
29 Although serfs became free only when they were recruited into the regular army , not when they enrolled in a militia , in the mid-1850s they chose to believe otherwise .
30 They were driving into the city now , and she looked around her , seeing it with different eyes for the first time , seeing it as a garrulous old lady with so much to tell to anyone willing to listen .
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