Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 2 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 3 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 4 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 5 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 6 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 7 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 8 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 9 | We 've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security . |
| 10 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 11 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 12 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 13 | It was he after all who had led her to arrest Taczek , he who had indirectly led her into the chief superintendent 's office that morning to have her face sprayed with warm saliva . |
| 14 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse . |
| 15 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |