Example sentences of "their [noun pl] [conj] [verb] into " in BNC.
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1 | The severe psychological damage inflicted upon the captive Biros led them to tear themselves from their shackles and plunge into toilet bowls , become suicidally entangled about gear sticks or wrap themselves around handlebars . |
2 | Likewise , it is submitted that no modern court would say as Sir George Jessell MR did in Printing and Numerical Registering Co v Sampson ( 1875 ) LR 19 Eq 462 : … if there is one thing which more than another public policy requires it is that men of full age and competent understanding shall have the utmost liberty of contracting , and that their contracts when entered into freely and voluntarily shall be held sacred and shall be enforced by courts of justice . |
3 | Travellers stripped of their possessions and disappearing into castle dungeons , never to be heard of again . |
4 | Thus by the mid-thirties the boundaries of the WEA 's sector of provision were becoming somewhat ragged margins as the other two better-funded and organised providers developed their policies and encroached into the territory of earlier voluntary endeavour . |
5 | Most people stretch their legs and go into the stations . |
6 | For on it lay the prickly pears he had picked for her earlier , now denuded of their spikes and cut into quarters . |
7 | I do n't recall ever seeing a big beardy climber lying down in the heather having a tantrum , or a party of Outward Bound students holding their heads and crying into their gaiters , so one is forced to conclude that I am alone in my hill hysteria . |
8 | At the Free Church Council 's meeting an address of congratulation to Queen Victoria was adopted after which delegates sprang to their feet and burst into singing the National Anthem . |
9 | They sat on hard upright chairs in a draughty passage , and all the excitement they had been feeling drained out of them , seeping through the soles of their shoes and vanishing into the linoleum . |
10 | Yeah they 'll they 'll be taken away from their parents and put into a juvenile |
11 | That 's the argument of headmasters in the county who staged a unique demonstration by forsaking their classrooms and filing into a meeting of the county 's spending chiefs . |
12 | Or was the lancelet-shape the more ancient pattern from which animals like sea squirts developed by sticking their heads to rocks , losing their muscles and retreating into as undemanding a life-style as the seas can provide ? |
13 | The molecules of poison remain unchanged and potent , even after the caterpillars have reconstructed their bodies and turned into butterflies . |
14 | Everyone tapped their toes and got into the swing a reggae one rather than an electoral one . |
15 | In his head he saw the hung sheets dotted with coal-smuts torn from their pegs and ripped into bandages as they sailed above the foxgloves . |
16 | Off-duty , the subalterns took to their jeeps and accelerated into the desert to shoot antelope . |
17 | Apparently they were doing a programme about monarchs who 'd lost their thrones and gone into exile . |
18 | Those who refused him their recognition were deprived of their lands and forced into a form of internal exile within France , into that area which the Valois ruled . |
19 | MORE than 20,000 young folk throughout England rolled up their sleeves and pitched into an annual countryside clean-up . |
20 | The musicians lowered their instruments and stared into the concealing field where the rye seemed to move as though an invisible giant 's footsteps crushed it down . |
21 | The first French infantry butchered the Lieutenant 's dead horse with their bayonets and marched into Belgium with the bleeding joints of meat hanging from their belts . |
22 | Some dabbed at their eyes with handkerchiefs , others covered their faces and wept into their hands . |