Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] into [noun] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " The government has thrown down an apple of discord which has burst into flames and flooded the country " . |
| 2 | ‘ The housing market has gone into depression and dragged down the market for consumer durables too but money could be earmarked by the Chancellor to improve existing housing stock , ’ he said . |
| 3 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 4 | Cautioning may have fallen into disrepute but to abandon it will mean a return to the punitive policies that this government had only recently said had failed . |
| 5 | He could easily have gone into London and enjoyed the jollifications . |
| 6 | Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors . |
| 7 | And before anyone could reply , she had dissolved into tears and rushed from the chamber . |
| 8 | The 1971 characteristics of elderly people who by 1981 had moved into institutions or to live with younger relatives will be compared with the characteristics of those remaining in their own homes . |
| 9 | In a statement released to journalists after the camp fell the KNU said that the government forces had crossed into Thailand and attacked the camp with artillery and ground forces from the rear : " If the Myanma soldiers had not crossed the border into Thailand and attacked the camp from the rear they would never have taken it " . |
| 10 | There was widespread media criticism of the government for capitulating to the drug traffickers , but Gaviria denied that he had entered into negotiations or made any prior deal with Escobar as part of a policy to defuse the costly and violent " drug war " gripping the country . |
| 11 | They had meant it to be special , but at the time , it had been dreadful , and when they began to sing Happy Birthday , Jay had burst into tears and run out of the room . |
| 12 | Two hours later , a tired but elated Yanto had climbed into bed and nestled into his mother 's clean Sunday night linen . |
| 13 | The US factories had evolved into organisations that set out tightly circumscribed jobs , fixed procedures , absolutely nothing in terms of flexible working , multi-skilling , employee responsiveness — any of those sorts of things — and they took a look at Japanese cost patterns and thought that American industry was just going down the plug . ’ |
| 14 | He did n't see his task as correcting the ways of men who had strayed into crime and needed help ; he and his warders existed to protect society from the kind of human garbage locked within the walls of Whitely . |
| 15 | ‘ Due to the expense of rebuilding walls , many have fallen into disrepair or disappeared altogether . |
| 16 | A humourless man is one whose muscles of humour have fallen into disuse and have petrified ; he is also an uncreative man for humour may be thought of as the first rung of the creative ladder . |