Example sentences of "and [vb -s] it into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wrenches his cigarette from his mouth , glares at me and grinds it into the ashtray , disconcerted by the firecracker element . |
| 2 | She feels full of it and moulds it into a glowing ball deep within . |
| 3 | Quite apart from the deafening thunder of the falls , and the awe-inspiring sight of their dramatic descent , the effect can be sheer magic on a fine day ; as the sunlight catches the spray in flight , and transforms it into an elusive pattern of shapes and colours that suggest in painting the Impressionism of Manet or the mists of Corot , or in music , the evocative nuances of Debussy . |
| 4 | To take only one example , the planet Jupiter had to be represented correctly , including its moving cloud formations , before the fantasy element where a black hole containing obelisks ‘ devours ’ the planet and turns it into a sun . |
| 5 | There 's a utility called convert that takes a GIF file and turns it into a BMP . |
| 6 | Human computation is wonderfully sensitive to context ; it captures the spirit in the message and turns it into the appropriate letters . |
| 7 | She has taken some point made by a friend whom she names — milia and develops it into a full essay . |
| 8 | Having done that , it reaches one leg across to its equivalent on the other side , removes the accumulated pollen from the comb with a stiff brush that sprouts from the end of the leg and transfers it into a deep bowl lying on the outer surface of the opposite thigh . |
| 9 | It draws magical power from the War Altar and passes it into the Grand Theogonist . |
| 10 | To persevere with our mechanical analogy , if we picture the forming of a bond as equivalent to putting the jack in the box , we need to bring to the box a special tool with a ready-compressed spring , and couple them together in such a way that , as the spring in our tool is released , it compresses the spring of the jack and forces it into the box . |
| 11 | In traditional psychoanalysis , the paternal prohibition of oedipal sexuality ends the close relationship between the child and mother ; enforces the child 's recognition of sexual difference , that is , its recognition of the absence of the phallus from the female body ; and introduces it into a wider social world . |
| 12 | He picks up the Business Section of the Times and takes it into the kitchen . |
| 13 | Hall takes a Schumpeterian view of long waves and translates it into a geographical context . |
| 14 | With horror and doubt on his face , the elder seizes a pitchfork and hurls it into the gangster 's back ’ It could be argued from the Kantian standpoint that the elder had failed in his duty by not upholding the sect 's fundamental principle of non-violence . |
| 15 | Vic selects a cassette and slots it into the four-speaker stereo system . |
| 16 | ‘ Pièce Touchée ’ by Martin Arnold , a winner of prizes from a number of festivals including Cannes — it takes a short scene from an American B movie and manipulates it into an erotic dance to hilarious effect . |
| 17 | The key point is that this approach takes video information out of the analogue world and converts it into the digital world of the computer and this conversion is an on-going , realtime process . |
| 18 | The phototransistor picks up the light emitted by the l.e.d. in the transmitter section and converts it into an analogue electrical signal . |
| 19 | The mats are formed by a special cutting and macerating machine which harvests the grass and presses it into a five to ten millimetre layer which is placed back on the stubble . |
| 20 | He finishes the cigarette , drops the butt onto the floor and mashes it into the carpet slowly . |
| 21 | Tepilit runs up to the lion , draws his long knife from its sheath and sticks it into the lion 's throat . |
| 22 | It takes out a blue tag printed with the words ‘ Staff in confidence ’ and sticks it into the space on the label . |