Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] into [art] " in BNC.

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1 In delirium they may go into a stupor and even unconsciousness with twitchings sometimes , of one side ; head rolling ; pupils maybe contracted or dilated ; eyes red ; face flushed , red .
2 New mothers are so terrified of their babies getting cold that they may run into the opposite danger .
3 The eggs will adhere to a coarse-textured surface until hatching ; if a smooth surface is used they may fall into the water , where they will not hatch .
4 If literature and its related activities are tainted with ‘ middle-class ’ exclusiveness and , it appears , that teachers engaging pupils in these are ‘ imposing ’ alien values upon working-class pupils , it follows that they must move into the lives of working-class pupils to encourage that culture which , up till now , the largely irrelevant curriculum has ‘ stifled ’ [ … ]
5 And running under a certain island which is called Clauda , we had much work to come by the boat : which when they had taken up , they used helps , undergirding the ship ; and , fearing lest they should fall into the quicksands , struck sail , and so were driven . ’
6 They 'll go into the next release of Motif .
7 they 'll get into the , they 'll get into that garage right , so they look and see things they did n't know that they can make money on
8 However , a bright lady from one of the northern co-ops came up to me later with the simple answer : they were looking at the prices and making their choice on that basis in much the same manner as they might go into a butcher 's shop with a price tag for the weekend shopping firmly implanted in their minds .
9 North-East football joined in the celebrations with Newcastle United victorious at Leicester City ending any lingering doubts they might drop into the Third Division for the first time in their illustrious history .
10 They might move into a bigger flat — but !
11 The theory was that on seeing the sign motorists would be so surprised that they might drive into the verge or the car in front .
12 They might fade into the background , but they are unlikely to go away .
13 She did not approve of amateurs , especially amateurs who thought they could step into the shoes of professional models .
14 Once Barry 's Mum had brought Barry with her and Mr Field , the dentist , had said they could go into the garden at the back .
15 They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’
16 They did n't feel for example they could go into the advice centre , they did n't feel it was for them .
17 At the second meeting on 9th June , Hunt was called as a witness ; he presented a paper which demonstrated that if all the Government Offices ‘ scattered about in various parts of the metropolis ’ , with the exception of the Admiralty and the Inland Revenue at Somerset House , were housed in four storeys , although architecturally ‘ hardly desirable ’ , allowing for courts and roads , they could fit into the area between Richmond Terrace , the river , Parliament Square and the park , and still leave space for expansion .
18 They had tried to head these off , but because they could slip into the lanes and wynds of the town , this had proved difficult , Ramsay interrupted to demand whether one of these fugitives had been a tall man in shirt and breeches ; but they said that in the darkness they could not tell .
19 However , they could slip into the third quarter .
20 He took care to appear blithely unworried as he strolled with his staff , for he knew only too well how the French sympathizers in the city were looking for any sign of allied defeatism that they could turn into an argument to demoralize the Dutch-Belgian troops .
21 And , yes , we have not been able to employ them straight away , though they could come into the orchestra to sit with the principals as a co-pilot sits with the pilot .
22 ‘ Even the youngsters insisted on putting what they could afford into the kitty . ’
23 Many disabled people could not travel to the polling station , and few knew beforehand whether it was accessible , or even whether they could get into the booths .
24 They wished their uncle would come and they could vanish into the huge car but no motor could be heard in the direction from which he would come .
25 Well , pretty fair , because then they used to go down Botterman 's Bay and where they used to er , the dock was in the hold , that was all loose grain and they used to put four bushels to the , so they used a bushel skip like that , wh which was a wooden one with a handle each side and they 'd go into the wheat
26 No , they 'd go into the mid one would n't they ?
27 That 's right and they 'd do into the wheat and they 'd on they 'd smoothed off , one man 'd had a big sack there , they hold her in , they had this one they build one in , he 'd go one in , he 'd go one and he 'd go one , four , four bushels of the corn and they used to tow it up , heave it out on the scale and they used to have a little old hand basin like that , with a handle on , take a little out or put a little in , and then them men down the hold , them ones , then he 'd do so many on the left and they 'd change over , he 'd do that way .
28 Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now .
29 They 'd come into the shops covered in Christmas decorations .
30 For the first time since they 'd come into the house , Roman turned his dark gaze directly on to her .
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