Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] a [noun] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the year officialdom was so confused by the niceties of the draw that they ended up with three , not four , semi-finalists , and a Scot named Macfie got a bye into the final . |
| 2 | Kadrin Redmane the Dwarf Runesmith leads an expedition into the ruins of Karak Varn where he discovers a rich vein of Gromril . |
| 3 | The weather was good , scores were high on the day , but no-one could live with the excellent golf from Dermot who kept a steady throughout , pausing only once for a ‘ chuckle ’ as colleague Kevin O'Leary pitched a 9-Iron into the nearby water hazard , albeit the Shannon . |
| 4 | At the last election , his majority — once a healthy 14,000 — was slashed to under 4,000 through the efforts of Robert McCartney , a leading campaigner for ‘ equal citizenship ’ — the right for voters in Northern Ireland to have an input into the democratic process of the kingdom as a whole . |
| 5 | Wrote screenplay for The Public Enemy , based on his own novel Blood and Beer , including the scene where the character played by James Cagney pushes a grapefruit into the face of his girlfriend . |
| 6 | A few days beforehand , Jack Cornelius suggested a jaunt into the countryside to cheer us all up . |
| 7 | Moving into more recent times , The Collected Writings of Robert Motherwell , edited by Stephanie Terenzio offers an insight into the recently deceased artist 's work and theories of art ( £25 ) . |
| 8 | Richard Last reviews an investigation into the perils of sleepwalking and another into Red Star |
| 9 | Would it not be more like Satan to shoot a dart into the dreams of an unsuspecting person , so that he foresees a plane crash without any hope of helping or saying the situation ? |
| 10 | The door opened , and Mrs Syms steered a tray into the room . |
| 11 | His defence came as the Commons Public Accounts Committee decided it would meet on Monday to hold an inquiry into the Guardian 's disclosure of the ‘ sweeteners ’ which were revealed in a confidential memorandum sent to MPs by Mr John Bourn , the Comptroller and Auditor General . |
| 12 | Robert put a lot into the delivery of the speech . |
| 13 | Every few metres , as the cab tipped this way and that to negotiate the base of a cold , slimy pillar or a crack in the floor , Tabitha got a glimpse into the dark spaces above and behind the makeshift partitions and aggressive fascias . |
| 14 | Lindsey dropped a spatula into the wastepaper bin and returned to her desk . |
| 15 | During this time , Henry Spalding drove a wedge into the Nez Perce tribe , dividing them into Christians , who followed his preaching , and the ‘ heathen ’ faction , who maintained their traditional beliefs . |
| 16 | Laura Maingay put a bookmark into the spring number of the Henry Doubleday Research Institute Quarterly at ‘ Experiments with Brassicas in Non-organic and Organic Beds ’ . |
| 17 | The discovery of a Russian spy ring in Canada in 1946 sounded the alarm , and in 1947 Truman initiated an investigation into the loyalty of all Federal employees . |
| 18 | Four blacks were killed by police at Rammulotsi near Viljoenskroon in the Orange Free State on April 19 , and on the previous day de Klerk announced an inquiry into the deaths of 11 people at a rent protest demonstration in Sebokeng , near Johannesburg , in March [ p. 37305 ] . |
| 19 | Schwarz rammed a magazine into the butt of a Walther PPK and handed it to the Irishman . |
| 20 | Jill slipped a pen into the pocket of her white dress . |
| 21 | Mr Seymour headed an inquiry into the Bellgrove crash but when his report was eventually published , it ignored many of the recommendations of a separate fatal accident inquiry into it . |
| 22 | Cresson promised an inquiry into the incident . |
| 23 | Carson took a peek into the brown paper on the Tube . |
| 24 | Welcome to the Pleasure Dome , hep cats — neo-mod jazz poets GALLIANO are on the hip tip with their Italian cardies , ENERGIZE take a bleep into the unknown , THE IMPOSSIBLES float by on Farley 's rusks , and TEMPER TEMPER inject some progressive soul into Manchester and , erm , America too . |
| 25 | In 1981 , the Conservative Government , influenced by the collapse of four licenced dealers , commissioned Professor LCB Gower to undertake an inquiry into the degree of protection afforded to investors in all areas of the financial services industry and to make recommendations for legislation . |
| 26 | In December 1988 , the DTI announced an inquiry into the Blue Arrow affair . |
| 27 | Professor Paul Wilkinson of the Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism was in London launching a report into the mid-air terrorist bombing of a Pan Am 747 above the Scottish town last December , which killed 270 people . |
| 28 | Karelius dug a heel into the frozen surface of the stream . |
| 29 | High Court Judge Sir Stephen Brown ordered an investigation into the 14-year-old 's best interests . |
| 30 | Four minutes after the interval , Pratt curled a corner into the goalmouth and Kevin Knibbs headed the winner . |