Example sentences of "it into a [adj] [noun sg] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 2 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 3 | One turned it into a front room and one going down , and two in the alley on the left hand side , one in the alley on the right hand side . |
| 4 | She pulled and patted it into a comfortable pad and Midnight slumped down , leaning forward against his crooked legs , his hands draped over his knees . |
| 5 | The escape , made possible in part by the chemical explosion in Quinn of the Fury , is followed by a series of independent forays in which Quinn seizes a French sloop carrying hides by following it into a secret harbour and pretending he and his men are drunken sailors returning on board , rescues Royalist prisoners from a castle by skulking and climbing , seizes another French ship by disguising the prize vessel under his command as French , and outwits a pirate ship by means of a collision ( rescuing , by the way , a young Contessa who adds a romantic touch to the story ) . |
| 6 | They wanted to make it into a special dress but it would not come right . |
| 7 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
| 8 | Now , and not before , sprinkle it with salt on both sides ( a teaspoonful for each side is enough ) , put it into a clean cloth and leave it draining until it is to be used . |
| 9 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 10 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |