Example sentences of "[noun sg] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One exception , imaginatively titled ‘ Gulf War : The Board Game ’ , comes from a Malaysian company that discovered it could change an America v Russia contest into a Gulf version without rewriting any of the rules . |
| 2 | She needs only to run close to the form which saw her finish second to multiple scorer Kassab over course and distance last month to turn this contest into a procession . |
| 3 | There are a few statutory exceptions contained within the Act , the most notable being that the Insurer will not be liable for the ‘ wilful misconduct ’ of the Policyholder i.e. the Policyholder deliberately ramming his vessel at speed into a harbour wall . |
| 4 | We often said they loaded the gun in the afternoon and took a long lanyard into a dugout some distance away and fired their gun once and never emerged to reload . |
| 5 | We followed the tweed skirt into a kitchen where its owner motioned us to sit , in the manner of someone training a dog . |
| 6 | ‘ Right enough , then ’ — and a ferocious crack of the whip electrified the horse into a gallop . |
| 7 | He half turned , dropped his hand and kicked his horse into a gallop . |
| 8 | He reined about and spurred his horse into a gallop . |
| 9 | A mis-used gadget will only make problems worse by forcing a horse into a shape before he is physically strong enough . |
| 10 | He kicked his horse into a trot and the hooves kicked up sparks from the cobbles . |
| 11 | Denis jumped back into the cart , and Boxer immediately urged the horse into a trot . |
| 12 | It 's like that Roman Emperor who made his horse into a consul . |
| 13 | Whichever may be the true explanation , it is certainly known that on her way across the wilderness north of Hermitage the queen was thrown by her horse into a peat bog , marked on modern maps as the Queen 's Mire . |
| 14 | If the rider drives the horse into a fence in such a way that he alters rhythm and balance , the horse will be forced onto his forehand and not given chance to jump off his hocks . |
| 15 | He spurred the horse into a canter . |
| 16 | Benjamin just smiled , raised her white fingers to his lips , kissed them daintily and , like some chivalrous knight , kicked his horse into a canter , almost knocking his would-be-love to the ground . |
| 17 | He urged his horse into a walk , toward them , all the more ominous for its slowness . |
| 18 | Tom O'Neill came through the revolving doors on a blast of icy air and stepped out on the other side into a blanket of almost oppressive warmth . |
| 19 | Children may discover that the covering of sand in the tray can be pushed to one side into a mound , yet will still push back to cover the tray . |
| 20 | His targets went beyond the Republicans to include " entrenched Democratic politicians " , whom he accused of turning " our party from a voice of opposition into a party of complicity " . |
| 21 | For Bakhtin , parody and stylization objectify their target by introducing ‘ a new semantic intention into a discourse which already has , and which retains , an intention of its own ’ ( 1984:189 ) . |
| 22 | But the fire in them burnt like a bud of blue flame , swelling , growing , until they felt it would flame into a shower of stars , reaching into the velvet darkness , the little frail wobbly lights of their bikes signalling to the lights of the travelling plane , their mounts leaping up over humps , over rises in the road , up and away into the intoxicating night . |
| 23 | Towards the end of the last century a Chicago physician , Dr Alice Stockham , advocated the practice of coitus reservatus in which a man inserts his erect penis into a partner 's vagina but restrains from ejaculating . |
| 24 | Water splashes from a faucet into a jerrican , and when it fills the boy sluggishly replaces it from a line of empty ones . |
| 25 | I came away with the feeling that work such as Hodgson 's , which begins to transform the rough material of personal experience and emotion into a universal , achieves an enduring self-sufficiency which work that is essentially referential can not . |
| 26 | The emotional help that we can give is often about unravelling this complex package of emotion into a process that can be gently reviewed and understood by the person feeling it all . |
| 27 | Jackson 's has bought the rights , and Jackson 's could make a Coptic dictionary into a best-seller if they tried . |
| 28 | A premature cut in interest rates would risk sending the pound into a dive which could spark inflation in Britain , he said . |
| 29 | Democratising pension funds , putting workers on the boards of companies , sponsoring the international worker networking described by Gary Herman in last week 's issue ( ‘ Hooked on IT ’ ) , and making foreign-language training obligatory for company executives ( as well as MPs , especially left Labour MPs ) would do more to make the economy socially progressive and productionist than any campaign to turn the pound into a peseta . |
| 30 | An edge of barely concealed displeasure to his tone , he answered , ‘ Turn our romantic little episode into a farce . ’ |