Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I eventually made it into the Yorkshire second XI and ultimately the first team . |
2 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
3 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
4 | Turning to Omi , skilfully bringing her into the conversation , and complimenting her on the way the venison had been cooked . |
5 | After the surgery , told to lose 50 pounds , he duly transformed himself into a jogging optimist . |
6 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
7 | There were quite a few dunces , and er some did n't always get moved on and they did n't all make it into the top class , they had to stop again for another year , or period , in the class they were . |
8 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
9 | In relation to the Irish worker , he feels himself a member of the ruling nation and so turns himself into a tool of the aristocrats and capitalists of his country against Ireland , thus strengthening their domination over himself . |
10 | Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem . |
11 | All employees are issued a with a security card which not only allows them into the building but also stores details of their credit facilities . |
12 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
13 | One may wish to study the statistics of word usage or word order with a view to understanding a text better , to catch nuances of meaning and perhaps to render them into a different language . |
14 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
15 | Then , blushing , she told Anne that when they had left Reece 's and were walking up Parker Street Ronald had suddenly pushed her into a shop doorway and attacked her . |
16 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
17 | People travel outside the village to work , so turning it into a dormitory village . |
18 | These are no longer needed and are best killed to prevent them from spreading to the food cupboard , so drop them into the methylated spirits jar . |
19 | Instead of accepting that their normal circuit is not possible and organising an alternative , they may try to make their formal pattern and so run themselves into an even more difficult situation . |
20 | I saw that there was not even a ripple of low pressure off to the east , which was the reassurance I wanted , for a depression to the east could swiftly twist itself into a full-blooded storm . |
21 | Yes , so get them into the habit of doing it . |
22 | But the ancestral organs did not literally change themselves into the descendant organs , like swords being beaten into ploughshares . |
23 | There is no reason why this track should be any worse than the " effort " track except that I have chosen to block off the easy track and so turn it into a dead end . |
24 | Dexter distrusted the whole concept , fearing that Blanche did not just operate at the rational level of searching for evidence and reassembling facts , but that she so thought herself into the mind of murderer and victim , that she communed with spirits . |
25 | Without that South African link , Zimbabwe 's rugby , and even that of Namibia , should they shun their former ‘ ruler ’ for long , would only drag itself into the doldrums . |
26 | The rejection of the ruling mode of dealing with the problem of the legitimacy of corporate managerial power ( through market constraints or the internal structure of the company ) does not necessarily lead one into an inconclusive political debate about the merits of the capitalist system . |
27 | Gently fold them into the batter , using a tablespoon . |
28 | He moved from St James 's Hall to a large , sedate house in Lime Grove , and swiftly converted it into a combination of a commercial office , a factory and a school of physical culture . |
29 | But now Chambers insisted that the extensions to growth took place without supernatural interference , so that one species naturally transmuted itself into a higher one at a certain point in time . |
30 | ‘ You had better get yourself into the washhouse and clean yourself up , ’ she said , ‘ I am going round to the Post Office and let Sid Watkins know . ’ |