Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [to-vb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few tried vainly to coalesce into a hardier entity . |
| 2 | The burglar also tried unsuccessfully to break into the house and smashed a double glazed window . |
| 3 | He tried hard to get into the spirit of the thing . |
| 4 | The nurse sent to accompany Leslie tried hard to melt into the background as the overjoyed family spent several hours opening presents under the tree . |
| 5 | If we were still in the veiled forests then I would be remembering more , but we drove hard to get into the open , and banish the memory . |
| 6 | Prominent in this development was a Lewes-born doctor who had studied at the University of Leyden and returned home to marry into the local gentry , combining estate management with medical speculations , and systematic enquiry . |
| 7 | ‘ I was attempting to retrieve my own property , ’ Ashley said , and when he strode forward to look into the skip she pointed . |
| 8 | Forester moved the machine aside and leaned forward to look into the dark space that was uncovered . |
| 9 | Nearly every farmer had a barrel of the stuff in his cow house in those days and I had only to go into the corner and turn the tap . |
| 10 | And if any of his fans still needed convincing , they had only to look into the happy , laughing face of his adoring wife Jean , at his side as she has been since his horrific car accident nearly three months ago . |
| 11 | The recruits hurried below to pack into the on-ship chapel , where incense burned before a lambent golden icon of the Emperor and an alabaster idol of Rogal Dorn , the founding Primarch of the Imperial Fists . |
| 12 | The reason he wanted desperately to get into the company was that Ninette de Valois , to whom he had already spoken about his choreographic ambitions , had told him that experience of working with other choreographers and dancing their ballets was essential to learn his craft . |