Example sentences of "[v-ing] them into " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale . |
| 2 | For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn . |
| 3 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 4 | tearing tin cans in half and lobbing them into the |
| 5 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 6 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 7 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
| 8 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 9 | Ohtake has recently been experimenting with objets trouvés , transforming them into architectural forms ; these are not , however , completely divorced from the spirit of the assemblages , collages , ink drawings and graffiti typical of his earlier work . |
| 10 | Recent works isolate and enlarge single objects such as a spoon , a fingernail , and the bubble from a carpenter 's level , transforming them into meditations on space , form and texture . |
| 11 | The algorithm and the file keys have to be analysed , which can be done either by writing an analysis program and inputting the keys , transforming them into addresses and recording the numbers of synonyms , or by using a standard analysis program . |
| 12 | Bravely brushing aside any question of taste , Mementos invites customers to send in their champagne corks for dipping in silver or gold , ‘ transforming them into wonderful mementos of happy occasions ’ . |
| 13 | The economic restructuring of recent years has had a traumatic effect on the estates , with massive job loss and factory closure transforming them into increasingly isolated , state-managed ‘ subsistence communities ’ . |
| 14 | Just helping them into a chair can cause quite a lot of bruising . |
| 15 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 16 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And he took off his glasses , tucking them into the pile of clothes , and ran down to the edge of the water . |
| 19 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 20 | It has reinforced them by building them into practice budgets . |
| 21 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
| 22 | He knows how to make people laugh , without whipping them into such a state of excitement that they feel a keen sense of anti-climax when the host of the show comes on . |
| 23 | They want secession from the union , not a new treaty binding them into it . |
| 24 | Another 6 p.c. is being sold by the Commonwealth Development Corporation , giving the Chinese a 15 p.c. interest and binding them into partnership with P&O and other shipping lines such as the Danish Maersk . |
| 25 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 26 | The Gospels present us with a picture of Jesus of Nazareth searching out those left on the edge , and bringing them into the heart of God 's kingdom . |
| 27 | Evidence about the past role of women is mainly genealogical : people remembered some marriages because they sealed a peace ; others because they bound in a new group of refugees or clients , bringing them into the range of people who belonged to someone , subjecting them to social controls . |
| 28 | It seeks only to open up the lines of enquiry sketched out here ; and it does so in the hope that by bringing them into the debate , it may contribute towards a fuller and more objective assessment of Mary 's reign — and Mary 's misfortunes . |
| 29 | The SSD 's preventive strategy is directed towards those children and their families where there is likelihood of damage … bringing them into care at some achieve the minimum amount of intervention necessary to preserve the child 's place within the family . |
| 30 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |