Example sentences of "from [verb] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went to get up but his legs were numb from kneeling and he had to put his hand out to stop himself from tumbling into the water far below . |
| 2 | I put the basket on the counter and held onto it to keep it from banging into the shopping of the woman in front . |
| 3 | Any oval space , providing it was well fenced to prevent animals from leaping into the spectators , would have served . |
| 4 | To hold the parity , high interest rates would have snuffed out any natural upturn , and there would have been continual rounds of spending cuts and damaging tax increases to keep borrowing from exploding into the stratosphere . |
| 5 | Police used tear gas and baton charges on Nov. 15 , 1989 , to prevent thousands of students from storming into the Turkish sector of Nicosia in a protest against the division of the island . |
| 6 | The sphoeroides and bufus venom make all the difference , since they disrupt the nerves by preventing sodium ions from passing into the cells . |
| 7 | The veteran bomber 's just 4 flights away from passing into the history books ; a sad prospect for the pilots who 've flown them . |
| 8 | Some sort of guard was needed on this to prevent the fish from swimming into the pipe and hence to the header pool . |
| 9 | It was the hon. Gentleman 's casting vote as Chairman of the Select Committee on Employment which last week prevented that Committee from looking into the truth of these matters . |
| 10 | Also , bear in mind that the components removed from circuit boards are likely to have very short leadouts that might prevent them from fitting into the component layouts of your projects . |
| 11 | For millions of years , however , the native plants of Australia have prevented the accumulated salt from sinking into the ground water . |
| 12 | The meagre vegetation that remained could not prevent such water as there was from sinking into the aquifers beneath , and taking its load of salt with it . |
| 13 | Australian agriculture has swept aside many plants of the bush which used to prevent salt from sinking into the groundwater . |
| 14 | To lay a path or drive simply excavate the area to a depth of about 6in ( 150mm ) , or 8in ( 200mm ) on soft clay soils , and ram in a 6in thick layer of hardcore or hoggin , covered with a thin layer of sand to prevent the gravel from sinking into the sub-base . |
| 15 | To stop splatter from spilling into the conversations of people using analogue phones , the digital frequencies require buffer zones of precious spectrum to separate them from analogue channels . |
| 16 | Our neighbours , with whom we drank Metaxa and broke plates most evenings , thought they were trying to discourage tourists from venturing into the mountains because of the risk . |
| 17 | Only the war saved Joyce from declining into the crankiness and obscurity of those who , for instance , demanded in small newspaper advertisements and at Speakers ' Corner why the bishops refused to open Joanna Southcott 's box . |
| 18 | Kapil Dev hit 129 to give the tourists hope and , while Wessels snuffed that out , the match was only seven minutes from going into the fifth day . |
| 19 | Her father , a Swansea lawyer , discouraged her from going into the legal profession because he thought she would get too emotionally involved in her cases . |
| 20 | Thomas ' father , a Swansea lawyer , discouraged her from going into the legal profession because he thought she would get too involved in her cases . |
| 21 | Well if I keep you away from going into the shower , it 'd be like extended foreplay wo n't it ? |
| 22 | Its objects are to unite the deaf and dumb and all interested in them , advance and protect their interests , elevate their social status , secure better and higher education for them , afford to anyone information as to their condition , education , etc. , establish missions in places where none exist , and last of all to assist by means of pensions the most deserving aged and infirm deaf and dumb , and so prevent them , in many instances , from drifting into the workhouse . |
| 23 | It is all very well to have two-way communication , but we need some high technology which will prevent trains from slamming into the back of each other . |
| 24 | Later in the season , when aquatic plants are approaching maturity , wind protection will be invaluable in preventing the taller marginal subjects from toppling into the pool . |
| 25 | That might be a necessary protection in order , e.g. , to prevent a cheque obtained by fraud from getting into the hands of an innocent holder , who would be in better position than the original party to the fraud . |
| 26 | In later years , paper labels served another function : they acted like gaskets , preventing molten material from getting into the mechanism for punching the centre hole . |
| 27 | Engineers must prevent sand and grit from getting into the well water . |
| 28 | Preventing foliage from getting into the water will decrease the problem but even then the gases , largely methane and hydrogen sulphide , can kill most of your pond life including the fish . |
| 29 | Using a condom can help prevent both men and women getting infected by their partners in penetrative sex , because it prevents vaginal fluids or semen from getting into the other person 's body . |
| 30 | Many of the terms in the contract need comment ; a coomb is equivalent to four bushels ; ‘ to make bottoms of stacks ’ refers to the practice of building the stack off the ground on a low iron or wooden platform to prevent vermin from getting into the corn . |