Example sentences of "[to-vb] into the " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | In all cases , give yourself time to work into the faster tempo by running the first one comfortably and then gradually applying the pressure . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | Hampstead somewhere , he thought , and then he might take the opportunity to slip into the big library at Swiss Cottage … |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | 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 . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | I asked , remembering to slip into the Purvis jargon . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Some 300 companies have moved their headquarters from Osaka to Tokyo each year because they want to plug into the capital 's networks . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | AN Edinburgh independent boys ' school has become the first in Britain to plug into the French government 's prestigious new technology learning centre . |
22 | Thus , there is some degree of selfdetermination in the ship case because we are free to shut our eyes , to cross the river and see it move from right to left , free to jump into the water and watch it coming towards us , free to determine the speed with which it passes across our visual field by moving our eyes with or against its movement . |
23 | The patterns appeared to jump into the room ! |
24 | There can be the desperate feeling that life has passed them by , and they stand on a precipice , wondering whether to jump into the arms of the first person who offers , or risk endless loneliness. , |
25 | Sir John Fastolf , involved in a long drawn-out lawsuit in Paris between 1432 and 1435 , could remind the court that he had been the first to jump into the sea when Henry V had come ashore in France in 1415 , and that the king had rewarded him with the grant of the first house which he had seen in France . |
26 | I do n't want to jump into the first movie that 's offered to me . |
27 | The pirates began to jump into the hole , and to dig in the ground with their fingers . |
28 | The most exciting part was when we had to jump into the water from a 12ft high board . |
29 | It ensured lively lunchtimes for the railway workers , especially when Crawford had to jump into the river to rescue a member of the rival gang who had fallen in . |
30 | She was a thin , long-waisted girl of about thirty , with a bony , intelligent face and a cap of dark curling hair which had been layered by an obvious expert , and no doubt expensive , hand to lie in swathes across the forehead and to curl into the nape of her high-arched neck . |