Example sentences of "by [adv] [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
| 2 | Did Green want to be news editor ? asked Marcuson , by now eased into the editor 's chair . |
| 3 | The first sentence of Hartley 's The Go-Between ( 1953 ) , which appeared when its author was nearly sixty , has by now entered into the valhalla of literary allusion : |
| 4 | Lewis had by now settled into the role of tutor , but he did not relax in it . |
| 5 | She was a nurse at a hospital on the other side of the village , and Killion had met her the previous evening by simply walking into the hospital and asking the first girl he saw if she would come out with him . |
| 6 | It was a simple code whereby his friends were able to determine his presence without attracting attention to themselves by actually going into the shop . |