Example sentences of "by [v-ing] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he battled against the bottle by checking into a private clinic but started drinking as soon as he came out . |
| 2 | The Aboriginal Initiates communicate intuitively with the Dreamtime — the time of their creation — by tapping into a universal reservoir of information containing their racial memory . |
| 3 | Tonight we start a series on architectural follies around the region.A folly is a building with no special purpose … often built at the whim of a wealthy landowner.We begin by peering into a concrete grotto … and touring some mock medieval cloisters , all built in the 1930s by the man who invented reflective road signs . |
| 4 | Lump sum investments can take advantage of the charitable status of public schools by paying into an educational trust run by the schools themselves or the life offices . |
| 5 | It is not unknown for so-called ‘ unspinnable ’ aircraft to come to grief by getting into a stable spin . |
| 6 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 7 | They pointed to cases in the past when underwriters had incurred huge losses by moving into an unfamiliar area of business . |
| 8 | He then gave me a slight shock by lapsing into a brief sort of reverie , and saying that if one had ever felt like ‘ murdering someone ’ , one could never do anything about it . |
| 9 | Certainly there are similarities : he is one of a group of city businessmen confronting their mid-life crisis by plunging into a macho holiday endeavour that goes badly wrong . |
| 10 | ( It does not do this by entering into a forward contract with another party , the risk would always end up somewhere ! ) |
| 11 | Knowing that it is possible to hedge by entering into a forward contract therefore seems to be the thing to do , in conjunction with the proposal just outlined . |
| 12 | I briefly saw Gina flit by talking into a short-wave radio and was momentarily stunned . |
| 13 | He was a man of considerable literary taste ( I must report , in all modesty , that he subscribed to the Informer and never missed these ‘ jottings ’ ) who died , so the authorities would have us believe , by falling into an empty swimming-pool when drunk on hard-to-come-by malt whisky . |
| 14 | I believe that bees , butterflies and other insects will visit the screen , and " choose " by bumping into a particular spot on the screen . |
| 15 | Other fabrics should be closely woven , firm and colourfast , and must be stiffened either with an aerosol spray applied to both sides of the fabric , or by dipping into a liquid stiffening solution . |