Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [vb pp] into [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives . |
| 2 | But the antique mirrors , which at his direction had been cut into squares in order to line the dining-and-dance room , were now tarnished and occasionally flew off the wall ; and the two murals done by Matisse had been sold to Americans . |
| 3 | From everything being simple and light-hearted , she had been plunged into shoals of deception , way out of her depth . |
| 4 | Margaret 's house was the same as Maura 's except it had been made into flats . |
| 5 | When they bought it , the upstairs had been made into bedsits . |
| 6 | So as to be like his fellows who had been turned into slaves , he slaved tirelessly himself . |
| 7 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 8 | Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas . |
| 9 | Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour . |
| 10 | The very sick had been wheeled into spaces vacated by simple fracture and tonsillectomies . |
| 11 | Her lovely hair had been coaxed into ringlets which bounced out beneath her bonnet , and he longed to feel the spirals curling round his fingers . |
| 12 | Their long carrot-coloured hair had been fought into plaits while the remainder stuck out in frizzy uncontrollable waves . |
| 13 | Light filtered through dimly from various shafts and , here and there , bounced off big mirrors that had been mortared into angles of the passage . |
| 14 | And given the brutalizing effect of the war itself and the undeniable impact of at least parts of the ideological message which had been hammered into Germans for years , by no means all of what was taking place and would lead Germany into the abyss was unwelcome or unpopular . |
| 15 | A Squadron had been divided into sections for the first period of their military training . |
| 16 | Once the text had been divided into sentences the words and punctuation were replaced by the corresponding grammatical code(s) from the OALDCE . |
| 17 | It was an enormous red folly with balconies all around the back and to the gardens at the sides , and had been divided into apartments . |
| 18 | Erm that again had been rolled into balls and then he 'd have erm about a dozen sticks which which held these balls and stuck them in then after he 'd he 'd erm er thatched one erm length , one row , he 'd pull the string over and attach it to the the thick s er rope that was er going over the stack . |
| 19 | The record industry is a notoriously chauvinistic business , but almost from the outset women had been put into positions of power and seniority at Virgin . |
| 20 | There was evidence that Barlow Clowes investors ' money had been put into shares in James Ferguson , run by Mr Clowes ' ally Guy von Cramer . |