Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [verb] into the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The special interest groups were influential and research was encouraged into the causes of crime and the treatment of those who had offended . |
| 2 | Between then and the next meeting on 25 November the idea of a morganatic marriage was put into the minds of both the King and Baldwin . |
| 3 | The sun was settling into the tree-tops up the line when it finally curved into view . |
| 4 | Once a girl was smuggled into the proceedings in her boyfriend 's overcoat . |
| 5 | Above : King Arthur defeated the giant Ritho on Snowdon ; when Arthur died his sword Excalibur was taken into the depths of Llyn Llydaw by the Lady of the Lake |
| 6 | The animal , sensing a new danger , shook its horns furiously to free itself from the encumbrance , and the already unconscious senator was catapulted into the thorns , where he lay without moving . |
| 7 | Later this period was divided into the months January and February . |
| 8 | And now she concentrated the whole of her mind and her brain and her will up into her eyes and once again but much more quickly than before she felt the electricity gathering and the power was beginning to surge and the hotness was coming into the eyeballs , and then the millions of tiny invisible arms with hands on them were shooting out towards the glass , and without making any sound at all she kept on shouting inside her head for the glass to go over . |
| 9 | Two metres of water was pumped into the vessels to float the roofs and check for leaks , before a similar amount of oil was introduced to the tanks . |
| 10 | The water was sucked into the pores . |
| 11 | Not only municipal administration but the whole initiative hitherto exercised by the state was laid into the hands of the Commune ’ ( Marx 1871 , p. 471 ) . |
| 12 | Furniture was dragged into the streets and burned along with cars and buses . |
| 13 | The enforcement of this legislation was put into the hands of a central government inspectorate , the first of a number of such inspect orates to be set up in the nineteenth century and to operate , according to Roberts , as an important source of pressure for further social reform . |
| 14 | Ignorance was to play into the hands of the enemy ; knowledge through education was power : |
| 15 | Thus support for families who are helping to care for an elderly frail relative was built into the activities planned for social service departments from the beginning . |
| 16 | Fortunately , a wise old Maharajah was drawn into the deliberations . |
| 17 | Daily food was kicked into the huts as they lay in their own vomit and excreta , with suppurating sores exposing their bones ; large black beetles were eating their eyesockets . |
| 18 | Louis 's untasted food was scraped into the dogs ' bowl , the baked leeks shut into the fridge , the cloth whisked off , shaken , folded away in the buffet . |
| 19 | An additional urgency was injected into the moves towards a coherent regional policy by the emergence of the debate on economic and monetary union in the 1970s . |
| 20 | The Thames marshes ensured that the ague was carried into the courts of kings , who were less resistant to it than the hardy fen men . |
| 21 | The trust was researching into the possibilities of alleviating famine through cultivating desert . |
| 22 | The parents were speaking as five survivors of the tragedy left hospital amid emotional scenes , and an inquest was opened into the deaths of the teenage victims . |
| 23 | By putting up a clergyman as a candidate , he could rely on the vote of hundreds of MAs who , sitting in their country rectories , could easily be persuaded by a judiciously worded letter that their old University was falling into the hands of infidels . |
| 24 | For example , Fillmore [ 1968 ] proposed the notion of a case grammar , in which each sentence was analysed into the cases attached to the verb : |
| 25 | Even Unexploded Bom was whirled into the bushes , nearly knocking young Sacco from his perch . |
| 26 | Power was slipping into the hands of important feudal vassals , and men like the rulers of Hyderabad in the south and of Bengal in the east were emerging with much more power than they had enjoyed in the previous half-century . |