Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 2 | He was n't given too long a sentence providing he agreed to go into a clinic — you know — to be dried out and cured . |
| 3 | Thanks to a neat design , no muck got spilled into the tank when removing the filter , and it was pretty full . |
| 4 | Willie was soon forgotten , and became mixed into the group again . |
| 5 | Liverpool 's inexperience meant they got sucked into the type of game a more experienced side would never have got involved in . |
| 6 | It was blow-out , on the driver 's side , and erm , well we just lost it , the wheel was snatched out of his hand when the tyre went and the next thing we just slammed into the barrier and then got catapulted into a concrete wall , |
| 7 | ‘ ACCESS HATCH ’ , she read embossed into a transparent panel , and , in smaller letters underneath , ‘ IN EMERGENCY , ENTER CODE 398 . ’ |
| 8 | Permanently placed at Number 55 in the not-quite-so-top 100 , they are destined to be remembered as yet another band Virgin failed to encourage into the charts ( famous last words part 136 ) . |
| 9 | He did n't look back at the sudden commotion behind him and , when a shadow passed over him , merely gibbered weakly and tried to burrow into the horse 's mane . |
| 10 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 11 | I could not forget how the village people had hurt me when I tried to go into the house there . |
| 12 | A vast circle of storm clouds hugged the ground and rose towering into the air , so they seemed becalmed on the inside edge of a massive mauve funnel through the swirling walls of which Trent could make out , to the south , a thin line of greater darkness that he knew must be the rain forest bordering the Makaa River . |
| 13 | The crossbow bolt whirred out , nicking the hindquarters of the second dog , which turned and fled howling into the darkness . |
| 14 | The authorities promised to look into the complaints in order to defuse the situation . |
| 15 | The sit-in at Beishida ( shortened form of the university 's name ) caused some tension , but eventually the college principal promised to look into the matter . |
| 16 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 17 | Councillor Mrs. B. Brereton promised to look into the appropriate portfolio . |
| 18 | The leader of the Commons , Tony Newton , promised to look into the issue . |
| 19 | The Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive promised to look into the hold-ups . |
| 20 | Shoreline also have a popular variation on the castle theme ( illustrated ) designed to fit into the corner of the tank and mask an uplift ( or mask and protect a heaterstat ) . |
| 21 | In panic she stumbled backwards , twisted round and tried to run into the living room . |
| 22 | Windscale the cat stopped coming into the bedroom : lay on one of the new chairs in the living room instead . |
| 23 | All mail for despatch should be franked if a franking machine is used , or the stamps used entered into the postage book , which should be kept on the imprest system ( Fig. 6.3 ) . |
| 24 | Melot had recruited an Arab whom he proposed to send into the town to find out if the garrison had been alerted . |
| 25 | All went well until she tried to climb into a taxi after the reception at the exclusive Dorchester Club following a quiet ceremony for family and a few friends at Chelsea Register Office . |
| 26 | These same people the , even when faced with the blatant facts of their mistakes , still hurl at the hapless retailer who unwittingly sold them the five 3″ goldfish that they tried to cram into a small glass bowl full of raw tapwater . |
| 27 | On Wednesday night , police were called to the town 's Webster Theatre when 1500 residents tried to cram into the 600 capacity hall and the meeting was abandoned in the interests of public safety . |
| 28 | On the first evening the young men got drunk and tried to get into a nightclub but were refused admission . |
| 29 | Last night the cricketer said the incident happened as he tried to get into a pub . |
| 30 | Policemen struggled briefly with the women as they tried to get into the embassy . |