Example sentences of "their [noun] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the time , after years of wartime austerity , consumers were so relieved to sink their teeth into a nice slice of meat that they seemed content to remain in ignorance about its origins . |
| 2 | The elderly in Northallerton got their teeth into a well travelled cake yesterday . |
| 3 | Ah the bitches , the bloody bourgeois bitches , once they get their claws into a man and draw blood they nae mair let go , ye ken . |
| 4 | They say the thought of having coach loads of inquistive tourists driving through the hamlet would turn their Paradise into a living Hell . |
| 5 | The paradise tree snakes of Sumatra , Java and Borneo , and the golden tree snakes of India , Burma , Thailand and Indo-China can contract their undersides into a concave shape that acts like a parachute . |
| 6 | One of the purposes of capital gains taxes is to prevent individuals from avoiding tax by converting their income into a capital gain : individual choices could be distorted and people might , for example , seek assets like oil paintings as opposed to bonds . |
| 7 | These factors have stacked up against the amateur game : a preponderance of Tours to house players ; a huge glamour industry attached to the pro game that seduces the players ; parents wanting to push their sons into a life of perceived prestige and an automatic aspiration to be a pro among most players of ability . |
| 8 | It also alleges that they were forced to put their heads into a bucket of urine and excrement . |
| 9 | The ten divisions of the French Fifth Army and the four divisions of the BEF had , therefore , on the instructions of General Joseph Joffre , virtually put their heads into a noose , for they could easily he assailed from the north by the German First and Second armies and by the Third Army from the east . |
| 10 | ’ In the land of the hatless , the man with a bunnet is a toff , ’ or words to that effect , and the same relationship existed between Glaswegians who were stuck with Shanks 's Pony , and the gentry who heaved their bulk into a sedan-chair after a heavy Saturday night . |
| 11 | She got out of her car and though the men in the other car saw she was pregnant , they pushed their car into a side street before driving off . |
| 12 | She got out of her car and though the men in the other car saw she was pregnant they pushed their car into a side street and drove off . |
| 13 | I do n't say — and do n't you believe — that henceforth you will be transformed in their eyes into a Hero of the Sexual Revolution , but what you have done will be of lasting value , not least to yourself . |
| 14 | Fifteen of the monkeys had tied their tails into a giant knot and had to be anaesthetised while a vet took 20 minutes to undo it . |
| 15 | I often wonder whether these pilots would react safely and effectively if they suddenly got their aircraft into a stalling situation . |
| 16 | But he was far from being merely neurotic ; rather , he was a visionary of genius comparable with that of William Blake or Fyodor Dostoievsky , one of those rare souls whose work , forged in the fires of their own pain , shatters established perceptions and calls their readers into a new and different world . |
| 17 | If someone catches a human soul or throws their spear into a human body thereby causing illness to the victim , then this is either plain bad luck or the direct result of some transgression which permits the animal/being to attack . |
| 18 | There were other less obvious things to bear in mind , too , such as keeping the children amused and easing their passage into a different culture . |
| 19 | They 've turned their suffering into a resource ’ ( p. 46 ) . |
| 20 | Dr Ziolo and his team have already managed to develop their discovery into a pale orange , water-based ferrofluid . |
| 21 | Almost as if they had been awaiting the signal of an extra moon , they now took their prancings into a more intense phase . |
| 22 | Apparently fearing that an increasingly angry president might try to disband the legislature , deputies also voted to continue their session into a fourth day today , ‘ to watch attentively that the executive observes the constitution ’ , in the words of the parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov . |
| 23 | German law does not allow charities to put more than a quarter of their donations into a reserve . |
| 24 | Sometimes they would sit on opposite sides of the aisle so that they could turn their banter into a public performance . |
| 25 | We chucked their livers into a large barrel fastened to the mast ; these were sold for cod-liver oil and the money they fetched was the perquisite of the crew . |
| 26 | One of the most pervasive characteristics of teaching is that of classroom isolation — the separation of teachers with their classes into a series of egg-crate like compartments , isolated and insulated from one another 's work . |
| 27 | Those who wish to receive an intervention , having considered the probability of a particular outcome , will translate their need into a demand for care . |
| 28 | Mr Ishaq wants to mould their membership into a support base for himself . |
| 29 | It is hoped that the writers will develop their pieces into a full length play for the Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights Competition . |
| 30 | Day two , and the pupils learn how to shape their creations into a clay model clock — quite a demanding process since it requires them to build in mirror-image — and cast it in plaster , ready for display in the school foyer or playground . |