Example sentences of "[to-vb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've come to find you ! ’ he cried , struggling back to his feet ; but the words seemed to blur into a shout that was almost meaningless . |
| 2 | He tosses a few slow jabs at several male heads , then for a couple of seconds allows his black , shiny Florsheims to blur into the patented Ali shuffle . |
| 3 | The effect of this is noticeable on people from hotter climates who have siestas ; they are able to work into the early hours of the morning without feeling fatigue . |
| 4 | In all cases , give yourself time to work into the faster tempo by running the first one comfortably and then gradually applying the pressure . |
| 5 | John Cole , the Political Editor of the BBC , commented in February 1985 : ‘ To see the Prime Minister , arms akimbo or leaning far across the dispatch box to bellow into the microphone , is to recall a Belfast working-class politician … who boasted that his Ma could beat any woman in the street . |
| 6 | His father believed that he had a good eye and could have played the game well if he was not liable to slip into a trance and forget that his attention was needed . |
| 7 | Because it is so easy for women to slip into a shared area with each other , they may at times have a fear of doing so , in case they lose their individuality . |
| 8 | It is too easy to slip into a mood of depression at the outset of what promises to be a period of very significant change in education but , in relation to the concerns identified earlier , it would have to be said that the omens are not propitious . |
| 9 | She was able to slip into a place in an adult society . |
| 10 | What can you say about a club which apparently could not afford to stay in hotel accommodation but had no problem finding 5,000 dollars to slip into a referee 's back pocket ? |
| 11 | Like so many in the New Zealand tour party , Fox has never experienced the intimidating atmosphere generated at the great sporting shrine and may have taken time to slip into the groove . |
| 12 | Since citizenship has become a fashionable and acceptable word , it is easy to slip into the habit of using it in preference to ‘ individual rights ’ or ‘ human rights ’ , but it is important to bear in mind the desirability of keeping the private sphere of the life of the individual separate from his role as citizen , an essentially political role and status . |
| 13 | Back at her place she offered him a large whisky and then said that she just had to slip into the bedroom to see to a few things . |
| 14 | She had decided it ought n't to be too difficult to slip into the stables and up the ladder first , but this time she did n't even reach the water pail . |
| 15 | But I 'm also a perfectionist and I 'm a bit lazy so , with two small children , when things start to slip into the chaos zone , I just give up . |
| 16 | Hampstead somewhere , he thought , and then he might take the opportunity to slip into the big library at Swiss Cottage … |
| 17 | And just over the horizon is a host of commercial massively parallel processors : the jury is still out on whether machines from the likes of Kendall Square Research Inc will really be able to slip into the mantle discarded by the mainframe , but all the evidence suggests that they will . |
| 18 | On his way home from college , he had managed to slip into the bookshop and grab a few quick words with Joe on the pretext of asking for a book , but the small , stout man could only tell him more or less what he already knew . |
| 19 | It is easy for us to slip into the assumption that the institutional , professional and curricular structures with which we are familiar are somehow natural or inevitable . |
| 20 | Perhaps the Gaskells behaved like outsiders but the community was there , ready and open to them ; all they had to do was to slip into the place that was offered . |
| 21 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 22 | But I 'm sure that once she joins you in the pool she will find it easy enough to slip into the flow of things . |
| 23 | I asked , remembering to slip into the Purvis jargon . |
| 24 | ‘ Prof ’ Francis always turned up at celebrity concerts and was often able to slip into an empty seat at intermission . |
| 25 | They allow Pcs with Novell 's popular NOS to plug into a 10Base2 or 10BaseT network environment without the extra expense of adding software or reconfiguring your system . |
| 26 | Much will now depend on Nordstrom being able to plug into a ‘ superhighway ’ using digital and fibre-optic technology to provide new telecommunications links . |
| 27 | ‘ I was able to plug into a growing formula which was already successful and so avoid the ‘ learning curve ’ which so often represents the downfall of any new venture , ’ said Mr Singleton . |
| 28 | This way , with the connections all at the rear and the rack components connected to a mains distribution board within the rack housing , the patch cables ( of which there can be quite a few ) need never be touched , and a single mains cable is usually all that 's needed to plug into the wall and power the whole thing up . |
| 29 | Some 300 companies have moved their headquarters from Osaka to Tokyo each year because they want to plug into the capital 's networks . |
| 30 | Where , for instance , an independent power generator will be permitted by Directive to plug into the grid of any Member State ( something , as we have seen , not actually proposed by the Commission at present ) , it will be able to do so only with a safety clearance from the appropriate ‘ home ’ authority . |