Example sentences of "[noun sg] was [vb pp] into [art] [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 | Once a girl was smuggled into the proceedings in her boyfriend 's overcoat . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Later this period was divided into the months January and February . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The water was sucked into the pores . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | Furniture was dragged into the streets and burned along with cars and buses . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The old terminus was converted into a goods station , a common fate for superannuated passenger stations throughout the world , and Fort was provided with platform canopies and flowers to enhance its attractive position beside the lake in the centre of the city . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Fortunately , a wise old Maharajah was drawn into the deliberations . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | For example , Fillmore [ 1968 ] proposed the notion of a case grammar , in which each sentence was analysed into the cases attached to the verb : |
| 21 | Even Unexploded Bom was whirled into the bushes , nearly knocking young Sacco from his perch . |