Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] into an " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 2 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 3 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 4 | Stage 4 : Care planning — Negotiating the most appropriate ways of achieving the objectives identified by the assessment of need and incorporating them into an individual care plan . |
| 5 | Use a sharp scraper to lift off deposits and ladle them into an empty bucket for disposal . |
| 6 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 7 | It twisted and turned and bore her into an ominous and derelict suburb , stark in the orange street lights . |
| 8 | If you know enough about a task , you can always translate it into an exercise in theorem proving . |
| 9 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 10 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 11 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 12 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 13 | For MCI , the new venture will do more than transform it into an international presence . |
| 14 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
| 15 | Guinness Mahon , a British merchant bank 65%-owned by Bank of Yokohama , gave warning that bad debts will plunge it into an after-tax loss of £35m ( $67m ) for the six months to March 31st . |
| 16 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 17 | They grow up unbalanced , and need only minor frustrations or the stimulus of pornography to tip them into an orgy of violence against women and girls . |
| 18 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 19 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 20 | He clipped the sheets together and put them into an envelope . |
| 21 | I was bleeding from a laceration on my scalp and was so drunk that I had no recollection of what had happened ; a Sergeant quizzed me closely and seeing that I was incapable of speech , took me downstairs and put me into an ambulance . |
| 22 | She has turned you into an image of herself . |
| 23 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 24 | The wind had turned it into an octopus and the old lady muttered , ‘ Oh dear , oh lord , oh good heavens , what a nuisance . ’ |
| 25 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 26 | A back pass from player-manager Hoddle seemed to catch Hammond by surprise and the goalkeeper hit the ball straight to the feet of Posh 's Tony Adcock , who put it into an empty net . |
| 27 | We award the highest academic accolade to a student who can see a question , focus it into an enquiry , trace sources , find relevant information in those sources , collate the information , reorganise that information in a way that meets the question posed , and write up the reorganised material as a report . |
| 28 | We award the highest academic accolade to a student who can see a question , focus it into an enquiry , trace sources , find relevant information in those sources , collate the information , reorganise that information in a way that meets the question posed , and write up the reorganised material as a report . |
| 29 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 30 | In the ‘ we-reap-as-we-sow ’ category this week there are reports by Computer Reseller News that WordPerfect is now thinking about dusting off its long-standing complaints against Microsoft Corp and turning them into an anti-trust action if the US Federal Trade Commission does n't hop to and litigate . |