Example sentences of "[been] [verb] into it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The level of Telford 's line was 54 feet lower than Barnes 's and , having fewer locks , would not only have used less water , but also more water could have been drained into it . |
| 2 | She even hinted that he had been bullied into it by his wife . |
| 3 | She 'd been pressured into it by the situation . |
| 4 | A meteorology division in the Ahnenerbe has been looking into it . |
| 5 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 6 | how they gon na , how are they gon na go on with this sale of land that the council have sold some land to the council and the police have been looking into it |
| 7 | he 's been able to get round it really , it might well be above board , but the police have been looking into it |
| 8 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 9 | Christianity seemed more and more to mean clericalism and once the Second Crusade of 1147 was over the popular religious fervour that had been channelled into it needed a new outlet . |
| 10 | The egg which had been stirred into it gave an unusual texture , and the pepper added pungency . |
| 11 | Yet they were here today in gratifying numbers , a double row of Larks looking very bronzed and weathered from striding over those ancestral acres , which men like her husband and Lizzie Braithwaite 's husband could never possess ; and their cousin , Colonel Covington-Pym , Master of Foxhounds , with his rather glorious , highly intimidating wife , a tall , red-haired woman who could be seen in Frizingley sometimes wearing a black riding-habit so tight that she must have been stitched into it — Linnet said — and mounted on a colossus of a horse very nearly the same colour as her hair . |
| 12 | Will they assume that people engage in this ritual because they have always done so and have been conditioned into it ? |
| 13 | Sounds as if the guy is suffering from Hemingway Syndrome : ‘ computers may see their silicon lives flash before their eyes , so to speak , just before they die , ’ Prodigy Services Co suggests , reporting that physicist Stephen Thaler of McDonnell Douglas Corp has been playing with neural networks as a way to speed diamond crystal growth but while by day , he created and trained the neural nets , by night , he began annihilating them to see what would happen , randomly severing links , and when between 10% and 60% of the links were destroyed , the network regurgitated nonsense , but as it approached death , 90% of the connections severed , it generated distinct values that had been trained into it , and at times even output ‘ whimsical ’ states , where it would generate values that were neither trained nor ones that would appear in a healthy net , says Thaler , who thinks it may say something about near-death experiences for humans — ‘ It may not just be fancy biochemistry , ’ he suggests . |
| 14 | The sacred spring , however , continued to attract visitors as the latest votive object found to have been cast into it is a penannular brooch with enamelled terminals of late-fourth- or early-fifth-century date . |
| 15 | Altogether a lot of energy has been put into it . |
| 16 | For Marx , the value of a commodity is determined by the total amount of labour that has been put into it and this labour ‘ constitutes exactly the fund out of which surplus value , or profit is formed ’ . |
| 17 | It is ludicrous that so little has been put into it hitherto . |
| 18 | And they had been asked if they wanted to stay in the fort , since more soldiers had now been put into it , but they thought , since they could n't fight , they would rather go and hide with their people . |
| 19 | Er a lot of effort 's been put into it , er we believe that it is erm certainly feasible , it 's consistent with the local strategy of restraint within this alteration is is placed and again the figure is is supported by all the the Greater York authorities . |
| 20 | It knows the right and wrong which have been instilled into it and — a contentious assertion — sometimes it seems to know what is right or wrong even although it has no behavioural conditioning for that situation . |
| 21 | When a [ makonde ] sculptor departs from the stereotype [ … $ this is nearly always because an element of doubt or defiance has been worked into it ; a madonna is given a demon to hold instead of the Christ Child ; a priest is represented with the feet of a wild animal , a pietà becomes a study not of sorrow but of revenge , with the mother raising a spear over the body of her dead son . |
| 22 | Shadow housing spokesman John Battle said : ‘ They have been forced into it , but at least now they realise they have to do something . |
| 23 | The truce with the Scots was , however , opposed by some of the northern nobility , whose personal interest lay in continuing the war , and it could be argued that Edward had been forced into it by another military humiliation and a political misjudgement . |
| 24 | A libation of pink paraffin had already been poured into it — like a great can of pink gin — it ought to burn well on that . |
| 25 | It makes me feel I have been prying into it all , I am a voyeur of their joint life . |
| 26 | She saw the water at a higher level than it had been when Henrietta had been lowered into it and the mouths of the two pipes were almost submerged . |
| 27 | Her chest ached sharply , too , just as though someone really had been hitting into it . |