Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] [vb pp] into [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they bought it , the upstairs had been made into bedsits . |
| 2 | And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives . |
| 3 | The very sick had been wheeled into spaces vacated by simple fracture and tonsillectomies . |
| 4 | Once the text had been divided into sentences the words and punctuation were replaced by the corresponding grammatical code(s) from the OALDCE . |
| 5 | Her lovely hair had been coaxed into ringlets which bounced out beneath her bonnet , and he longed to feel the spirals curling round his fingers . |
| 6 | Their long carrot-coloured hair had been fought into plaits while the remainder stuck out in frizzy uncontrollable waves . |
| 7 | But the antique mirrors , which at his direction had been cut into squares in order to line the dining-and-dance room , were now tarnished and occasionally flew off the wall ; and the two murals done by Matisse had been sold to Americans . |
| 8 | A Squadron had been divided into sections for the first period of their military training . |
| 9 | There was evidence that Barlow Clowes investors ' money had been put into shares in James Ferguson , run by Mr Clowes ' ally Guy von Cramer . |