Example sentences of "they [verb] [been] [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you er using a similar example , if , if you were looking after the neighbour 's house while they 're away on holiday and found that they 'd been broken into , then that would n't necessarily be a nine nine nine call , unless you thought there was somebody in the house . |
| 2 | In 1966 the Beatles had given up touring , a practice that had consumed their lives ever since they 'd been catapulted into celebrity in 1963 . |
| 3 | They 'd been duped into believing the gag ( nothing may be published without sanction from Lord 's ) protected them . |
| 4 | Because they 've been pressured into an opinion on one particular aspect of their letter . |
| 5 | Though sometimes , when they 've been smashed into and then I have to turn the other way , they go oh ! |
| 6 | The Cult only ever had one truly great riff of their own — ‘ She Sells Sanctuary ’ — but on ‘ Electric ’ and ‘ Sonic Temple ’ they at least had the intelligence to plunder the repertoires of The Stones and Zeppelin , here , they sound like they 've been dipping into a library of unreleased Uriah Heep doodlings … uninspired , to say the least . |
| 7 | Over dinner he gave an enthralling account of the entire mission , their excitement at penetrating the Flow undetected , matched only by their relief at finding the way out , and of how on reaching home waters they had been cheered into Wilhelmshaven by the rest of the German fleet and flown to Berlin for a celebratory banquet with Hitler . |
| 8 | Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas . |
| 9 | He had been up all night shadowing a team of poachers , until they had been manoeuvred into the welcoming arms of the constabulary . |
| 10 | They had been born into slavery , and their parents and grandparents before them . |
| 11 | If they had been born into a different culture they would have believed something quite different . |
| 12 | However , they had been plunged into a welter of activity in which they tried to respond to urgent and practical matters placed before them and it is , therefore , not surprising that a commonly held view was that ‘ the best form of training comes from getting on with the job ’ . |
| 13 | They assumed that they had been moved into the area these smells were coming from and , in an endeavour to return to the loft , those with olive oil on their bills flew north , while those with turpentine on flew south . |
| 14 | However , in April 1988 Teo , along with eight other original " conspirators " , issued a public statement claiming that they had been coerced into making their televised confessions [ see p. 36353 ] . |
| 15 | Several of them showed signs of injury , leading to claims in the US and the UK that they had been coerced into making their statements . |
| 16 | They had been followed into the hall by the young man who had been with Dom João on the quay , and Sara felt that other eyes were watching from half-open doors . |
| 17 | During the hearings , officials from the CIA apparently admitted having concealed evidence from Judge Shoob , but claimed that they had been pressurized into doing so by the Justice Department . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , ’ the fellow scratched his head , ‘ from what I gather , they had been rolled into the marsh but had n't sunk . |
| 19 | The curtains were wet where they had been sucked into the fringe of the deluge . |
| 20 | Women jeered at Blackshirts who made their way to them , only to find that they had been lured into a group of Communist sympathisers intent on vengeance . |
| 21 | If the contras could be neither saints nor crack troops , their appeal had to lie in romantic desperation : the ‘ fact ’ that they had been forced into exile , like the ‘ little old lady ’ with her hair in a bun and her dress ‘ held together by safety pins and string ’ whom Owen had met in a camp in Honduras ; the ‘ fact ’ that the soldiers were without food or uniforms , their hospitals nothing but hen-coops , lacking even mosquito netting ; the fact that there was never enough money for anything . |
| 22 | Finally they told me where they had been and how they had been ushered into a sort of waiting room by the proprietress , who had endeavoured to make them feel at ease by offering them marrons glacés . |
| 23 | Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour . |
| 24 | But at least they had been brought into contact with other sufferers . |
| 25 | These thought processes can be brought into use at will once they have been transferred into faith in the Created God . |
| 26 | Over the years they have been inducted into the Maori nation in New Zealand , a rare honour , have packed soccer stadiums in Uruguay and Chile which make Wembley look like a park pitch and have successfully led the way for numerous reggae bands to grab a slice of the American popular music market . |
| 27 | Er so that was a market place that we really were n't tapping from this region , they have been tapping into London . |
| 28 | I believe that the very speed at which they have been absorbed into the school system indicates an uncritical acceptance of the package because it is new and modern and fashionable and that there has been little serious examination of which aspects are relevant and which are not . |
| 29 | The dictator ( to look at one of Keith Graham 's examples ) who allowed everyone to decide for themselves what they wanted and then told them what they must do , is violating their autonomy not because their wants and needs are not realised in action , but because they have been coerced into doing something they do not want . |
| 30 | Research has also indicated that many members of the upper strata owe their position primarily to the fact that they have been born into those strata and have capitalized on the advantages provided by their social background . |