Example sentences of "[pers pn] and [verb] it into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Taking her hand warmly in his and tucking it into his pocket , he ordered softly , ‘ Tell me about Elinor Browne with an ‘ E ’ . ’ |
| 2 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 3 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 4 | Windeler took the sheet from him and slipped it into a drawer in the desk . |
| 5 | She made a grab for her shirt but Felipe took it from her and flung it into the back . |
| 6 | He took her room key from her and slid it into the lock , and she felt suddenly breathless . |
| 7 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 8 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 9 | And so , when you come to the bible and you read the account of Jesus here on the earth , turning the water into wine , of Jesus stilling the storm , when you into the old testament and you read accounts there of the children of Israel , of the me , of the tremendous miracles that were performed by Jehovah , God for them well of course , there 's a natural explanation to it , because you ca n't do these things , there are natural laws that stop you doing them you can not take a glass of water , even if you 're God , you can not take it and make it into a glass of wine instantly , it 's got natural processes to go through . |
| 10 | Carolyn had had a couple of goes at it and made it into — well , more of a privet dodo than a hen . |
| 11 | She picked up the box with the frog-magician in it and wedged it into her cape pocket . |
| 12 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 13 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 14 | The trouble was , he thought , as he signed the paper , indecipherably , with his left hand , folded it and put it into his jacket pocket , he did n't know much about thallium poisoning , and even less about the making of lenses with a high refractive index . |
| 15 | Discussion of immorality was particularly problematic , given the strongly held belief that to name it and put it into discourse was a dangerous incitement to further acts of depravity . |
| 16 | He described the heap of rubble from which it and the rest of the building had risen and how he and the owner , who came up for weekends , had taken eight years to finish it and turn it into the Mirimar which we now perceived it to be . |
| 17 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 18 | Many other permutations were possible but the future of the house did cause worry , There was even a rumour that the local authority was to acquire it and turn it into some kind of museum . |
| 19 | and we put a little sex appeal into it and turn it into what I thought was a very contemporary , viable and graphic arts piece that would be very broadly hung on the wall and used . |
| 20 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 21 | Magee took one , glanced at it and stuffed it into his pocket . |
| 22 | Without a word she untied it and stuffed it into Werewolf 's lapel pocket until it looked like a dress handkerchief , then she moved behind him and pulled the sleeves of his jacket up to the elbows . |
| 23 | She sucked her teeth , took another ticket down at random , glanced at it , crumpled it and tossed it into the disposal by her left knee . |
| 24 | In fact the defragmenter , Speedisk , is so good that Microsoft bought it and built it into MS-DOS 6 . |
| 25 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 26 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 27 | She had a small torch in her case , and spared the extra minute to find it and thrust it into her pocket . |
| 28 | On that occasion an agreement was signed between the town council of Decin , the present owner of the castle and church , and representatives of the bishopric of Litomerice , Leitmeritz in German , which settled the future of the church : the town would repair it and give it into the care of the Catholic Church . |
| 29 | The first thing you have to do is take the kettle to the tap and turn the tap on , and then take the kettle back from where you got it and plug it into the plug and , wait for the kettle to boil . |
| 30 | Metabolism is the process by which you take in food , use it and convert it into energy and heat , er several days , so there were several days after the baby 's born when it 's really very much at risk of getting cold injury . |