Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] into " in BNC.
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1 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
2 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
3 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
4 | Increasingly they are grouping themselves into multiple retail chains , as can be seen from Table 11.10 . |
5 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
6 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
7 | Whether the Council I , I personally would be quite keen to go down there and see A , and we 'd need permission of the land owners , to do this , to see where the link could go across , you know , the best position , so that we , and I believe this is what Councillor is saying , so that we can actually come forward and maybe this ought to be a meeting with the Amenities Committee , maybe the Ramblers and bear in mind as I say again I hate to do these things and the land owner think we 're steamrollering 'em into something without their knowledge . |
8 | ‘ They 're tearing him into four , ’ said Snodgrass . |
9 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
10 | If you 're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you 're screwing yourself into a ball of self-disgust , you 're gon na find the sheets get colder and your limbs get stiffer , and if you do n't break the mood you 'd be better out of bed . |
11 | The pins on VGA monitor cables are so thin they usually bend when you 're plugging them into your PC . |
12 | So you 're ploughing everything into the business at this moment |
13 | and they 're putting them into auction and the people that have got spare money |
14 | It 's all going to it er , they 're putting it into a ma massive voice bank . |
15 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |
16 | You 're working yourself into a state . |
17 | Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop . |
18 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
19 | PUPILS are selling themselves into slavery this week in a bid to raise money for a worthy cause . |
20 | I 'm caught in the cross-fire between on one side the US which wants to export computers , the motor and textile industries which complain they can not modernise and thus compete without a change in the law , and on the other side the Brazilian computer industry which argues we are leading them into bankruptcy . |
21 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
22 | Er Robert said Charlotte who 's two and a half she 's always been pretty but erm Robert said right , mother 's babysitting on the nineteenth so organize I I 've been getting them into bed and then I 've gave them a little bit of milk or whatever they want and then they 've had toast with jam on . |
23 | around or over the world in 30 days of driving … that 's the dream of two local motoring enthusiasts who are taking their old morgan car on the longest … the toughest rally of them all … they 've been getting themselves into gear in the Malverns and we 're off there to join them for our Friday feature |
24 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
25 | ‘ My orders , little friar , are that you are to accompany me into Cheapside to a tavern called the Bear and Ragged Staff . |
26 | If not , this recipe , plus French Cheddar — by no means an uninteresting cheese ( French Dairy Farmers Ltd , 17 Bentinck Street , w.1 are importing it into England ) — should help ; and a new French regional dish will have come into being . |
27 | Campese , scorer of a record 51 Test tries , the most recent against Ireland last weekend , had second thoughts about taking his World Cup winners ' medal into retirement , despite his claim that rugby players are running themselves into the ground . |
28 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
29 | ‘ We have been plunging them into boiling water for years and it is ridiculous to say we are being cruel . |
30 | The International Centre , which gets off the ground officially with a ministerial blessing ( jokes aside ) at its launch next week , wo n't be booking anyone into any conferences in Nice , the Gambia or Malta . |