Example sentences of "[verb] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or he may be planning to sell , in which case he can risk a dinner party without being trapped into intimacy . |
| 2 | If allowed to remain this waste matter will eventually get trapped into pockets by fibres deep in your skin leading to the familiar spongy , dimpled skin texture known as cellulite . |
| 3 | It is important to be open and not be trapped into promises which will have to be broken later . |
| 4 | She was not to be trapped into suspicion again ; if he knew his power so well that his presence was unnecessary , that was enough for her . |
| 5 | Every day , anything up to a thousand illegal Asian workers are crowding into Tokyo 's main immigration bureau , asking to be deported . |
| 6 | Images were crowding into Marie 's head , superimposing themselves , one upon the other : the wrecked kiosk ; Gazzer , with the keys dangling from his hand , leading Madge away ; Gazzer stamping about in his big boots . |
| 7 | ‘ The rest to some faint meaning make pretence / But Shadwell never deviates into sense , ’ wrote Dryden in his verse satire . |
| 8 | No doubt voices will be raised in support of such measures , but I must urge the Secretary of State not to be hustled into steps that can only aggravate the situation . |
| 9 | He also agreed that 5 Corps would " as soon as possible , send into YUGOSLAVIA all the CROATS in our area . |
| 10 | City : Americans may buy into ITN |
| 11 | He was a member of the new Company of Royal Adventurers trading into Africa from its inception , and was an assistant 1666–8 and 1670–1 ; he was a committee member of the East India Company in 1666–7 , 1668–74 , and 1675–7 ; deputy governor of the Hudson 's Bay Company in 1670–5 ; and an elder brother of Trinity House from 1670 to his death . |
| 12 | The engines grumbled into silence . |
| 13 | The religious police ( mutawa ) were recently pricked into action by the horrifying sight of Saudi women demonstrating for the right to drive . |
| 14 | When had he ever had to be pricked into action before ? |
| 15 | Remove dampened leaves , split woody stems and place into 2in ( 5cm ) depth of mixture . |
| 16 | In their ninth round , the talks in Washington may have limped into phase two . |
| 17 | For very young children our Multivitamin Liquid can be mixed into milk or diluted fruit juice , or simply given on a spoon . |
| 18 | The intensity of the colour achieved is also much greater , as the shades become of necessity slightly diluted when mixed into icing . |
| 19 | fresh or dried leaf , in a sauce or jelly to accompany roast meats , and rubbed on to meat before grilling or roasting ; with salads , mixed into cheeses , in summer drinks , as part of bouquet garni , and mixed herbs , in chutney |
| 20 | I 've changed the mental image of the cancer from the multi-headed dragon to football-sized balloons full of water — unfortunately there are millions of them , all over , some clustered into piles beneath the lumps on my body . |
| 21 | The development of industrial capitalism came later and more quickly ; there were continuing influxes of working-class immigrants from ‘ backward ’ parts of Europe ; in the South , isolated rural-proletarian and quasi-feudal cultures persisted ; the vitality of a ‘ popular-bourgeois ’ culture , embracing workers and higher social strata , continued into the twentieth century , when European equivalents were long dead or distorted into passivity . |
| 22 | Their faces are often distorted into gargoyle shapes that appear hideous to us until we see them for what they are , exquisitely fashioned instruments for beaming ultrasound in desired directions . |
| 23 | Frighteningly , the whole fabric of her being was distorted into shades of midnight and lightnings of pain sheathed every nerve in her body . |
| 24 | On both sides , however , these views may merge into others which are more starkly contrasted : the idea of a reformist path to socialism may be transformed into a total preoccupation with reforming the existing society and a virtual renunciation of socialism as the ultimate goal ; the revolutionary approach may develop into a rejection of every kind of struggle for reforms as being positively inimical to the growth of a revolutionary class consciousness , the adoption of a politique du pire and the expectation of a catastrophic breakdown of capitalism from which a band of dedicated revolutionaries will lead the masses into socialism . |
| 25 | Sanctity could easily merge into separation and censoriousness . |
| 26 | The linguist interested in delimiting the scope of an overall linguistic theory may be concerned that the description of social deixis will simply merge into sociolinguistics , and on this ground wish to exclude consideration of social deixis from formal descriptions of language altogether . |
| 27 | Inevitably , television 's influence seeped into movies . |
| 28 | Everywhere the land and its concerns seeped into town-life : the towns of the south had agricultural suburbs inhabited by day labourers hired in the square by the bailiffs of the great estates . |
| 29 | The colour seeped into Topaz 's cheeks and Lovat raised his eyebrows . |
| 30 | It is often helpful to group dynamics to introduce games and exercises into group discussion . |