Example sentences of "[adj] and [verb] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am not the type of manager to go in and say right , I 'll take this and create it into something else . |
| 2 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 3 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 4 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 5 | In solid-state solar cells the junction between two materials of different electronic properties absorbs light and converts it into electricity . |
| 6 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 7 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 8 | I remembered the time Andy and I had let down all the wheels of his dad 's car , folding matches in half and sticking them into the tyre valves . |
| 9 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 10 | He pushed the dress free and lifted her into his arms , walking to the bed , and Maggie made a small whimpering noise she did n't even recognise , a softly feminine noise of submission . |
| 11 | Miracles can and do happen , if we are willing to stop struggling and allow them into our lives . |
| 12 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 13 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |
| 14 | Jermey 's aim is not to turn out chefs who can produce Chinese wedding feasts , but adventurous chefs who can borrow techniques where appropriate and incorporate them into their own style : ‘ They 'll see new ways of finishing dishes , new combinations of flavours . ’ |
| 15 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 16 | Bureaux are polled annually for suggestions for rewriting parts of the system and the IPG weights these and builds them into the plans . |
| 17 | He got up , filled one of these and thrust it into Fitzormonde 's hand . |
| 18 | He wadded the money up tight and shoved it into one of the pouches on his Sam Browne belt . |
| 19 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 20 | He took out a key and let himself into the building . |
| 21 | I 'm trying to make it more beautiful and transform it into the language of clothes . |
| 22 | His friend Sir Thomas Lauder of Grange and Fountainhall tells of one humorous incident where Geikie once followed a particularly pompous , pot-bellied and self-assertive porter through the marketplace sketching as he went until the victim got angry and chased him into a house from whose attic window Geikie completed the sketch with some extra touches to show features of indignation to perfect the picture . |
| 23 | The controversial hypnotist also transports volunteers to the hot Mediterranean and cold Arctic and entices them into conversations with men from Mars . |
| 24 | Instead of throwing it away he took out the foil and smoothed it on his knee , then folded it very small and slipped it into his shirt pocket . |
| 25 | Okay what I want you to do is to get twelve of them first and put them into see how many rectangles you could make . |
| 26 | Early this year my wife parked her car in the college car park , collected up books , yarns and accessories first and took them into the classroom . |
| 27 | She lit one and carried it into the ballroom , where the silver light from a large moon cast shadows on to the wood floor . |
| 28 | She reached over the piano to a pile of little plastic cups , grabbed one and shoved it into my hand . |
| 29 | If smoking is allowed it stops people doing it in secret and making it into a clever or fashionable thing to do |
| 30 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |