Example sentences of "could [vb infin] into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could merge into the neck like a short back and sides . |
| 2 | The Navy Department considered in 1943 that Korea was bereft of leadership and feared Korea could fall into a vacuum similar to that which would exist in Poland and the Balkans when the European War terminated . |
| 3 | Or he could sell most of his land to Mr Big and his house and a few acres could fall into the hands of a merchant banker who wants somewhere quiet with a paddock for the daughter 's ponies . |
| 4 | He feared that the plutonium reclaimed at the plant from irradiated fuels could fall into the hands of terrorists and be used to make crude atom bombs . |
| 5 | ‘ The Met have now provided him with round-the-clock protection as they fear the filofax could fall into the hands of the IRA , ’ said the source . |
| 6 | Labour 's defence spokesman has expressed fears that a missile system being developed in the region could fall into the hands of Iraq . |
| 7 | " I wonder , " she said , " if a woman could fall into the ways and after a while it would n't bother her . |
| 8 | Surely not one more could cram into the sheep quarters , but down they came , and a gangway was placed right on our saloon deck . |
| 9 | Jackie lived at a high pitch , he was making hay while the sun shone , he was spreading himself thin with a young family and as many interests as he could cram into the year ; for someone always highly strung , always working at a high pitch of nervousness , an ulcer was the logical consequence . |
| 10 | And with the kitchen in it I think it could tie into the story with it being in the headline . |
| 11 | When my father tired of the pretence involved in this relationship ( for he was n't as weak as they had tacitly agreed ) he had hastened to the other extreme and married a woman who , as my mother was fond of remarking , you could pour into a jug . |
| 12 | No matter how securely the front door might be barred with entry codes and passwords , American operators , holding the key to the secret back door , could break into the PROMIS systems operated by Cyprus , Egypt , Syria , Pakistan , Turkey , Kuwait , Israel , Jordan , Iran and Iraq whenever they wished , access the data stored there and get out again without arousing the slightest suspicion that the security of those systems had been breached — an incalculable advantage , not only in collecting and verifying intelligence data from those countries , but also in assessing the actual , as opposed to the professed , level of cooperation extended by their governments . ) |
| 13 | However , as most places do n't have such luxurious room provision you could look into the possibility of screening corners of the room in some way . |
| 14 | At the ‘ Drong ’ lower down the High Street the passer-by could look into the first-floor windows of the ancient cottages . |
| 15 | I would be grateful if you could look into the matter and send me the duplicate Agreement as soon as possible , as I have your copy of the tape ( VM on IBM at 1600 bpi ) ready to despatch to you on return of the documents . |
| 16 | I do not know the individuals or firms responsible for the tipping , but I should be grateful if you could look into the matter . |
| 17 | I understand both these belong to Wyresdale Park Estates and I should be very grateful if you could look into the matter and arrange to have them trimmed . |
| 18 | I picked him up gently , just to move him back so that I could look into the box … |
| 19 | In The Money could run into a place . |
| 20 | He shuddered with pleasure , wishing he could see into the darkness of this other , and know its face . |
| 21 | I could see into the pen and the sight was rewarding . |
| 22 | Er , you know , Jane Austen , and and Bronte , they wrote quite a lot about clothes which meant probably , but always , I felt the Trollope could see into the minds of women you know , and he was good . |
| 23 | I could see into the hallway . |
| 24 | From here she could see into the fields . |
| 25 | Trent walked round through the lean-to kitchen and stood in the doorway , from where he could see into the restaurant . |
| 26 | The sorceress could see into the future , and she could see how her curse might again fall on us . ’ |
| 27 | To the left , he could only at first see his own garden , his tennis court , the old wall that screened his vegetables — to eat what one has grown , actually to eat that ! — but then , across a low hedge and a fence that needed repair , he found he could see into the garden of the new Rectory , whose impersonal little back windows faced the same way as his own . |
| 28 | Greg elbowed his way through and got behind the engines , from where he could see into the garden . |
| 29 | Half the wall of the next house had been blown out , and he could see into the room beyond . |
| 30 | Light was coming from Duke Michael 's window opposite me across the moat , and I could see into the room . |