Example sentences of "it into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 2 | Helen will want the wedding to take place from here , but I 'll have to hold her back from making it into such a big affair that it will take months to prepare . ’ |
| 3 | Furthermore , plants utilize carbon dioxide in the atmosphere that animals eject , and animals Bean yet more energy from the environment by utilizing the oxygen that plants eject by converting it into new combinations of chemicals . |
| 4 | I am doubtful ; I suggest that we have all just become more aware of it in recent years , more ready to take it into new forms . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |
| 7 | The key is to start with something simple ; 95 per cent of the decisions you make are unconscious — for example , when you drive a car you never really think about putting it into first or second gear . |
| 8 | Pushing it into first , she was just about to let off the handbrake when he opened the passenger door and awkwardly lowered his length into the small car . |
| 9 | Shoving it in , shoving it into first , bring the clutch up quickly and the car goes weer and virtually stops |
| 10 | Put it into first gear and he said , and the light went out , he said oh yes that 's fine . |
| 11 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 12 | The action has played a strong part in industrial safety but attempts to introduce it into other areas have been less successful . |
| 13 | Accordingly the lenders got their security , and leave to turn it into good cash if no other cash redeemed it in time . |
| 14 | The peripheral hem blew back over the canopy , dividing it into two lobes . |
| 15 | Yet another way in which you might choose to use the second half of your daily Fibre-Filler is to divide it into two portions and eat one of these half an hour before each of the two main meals of the day . |
| 16 | Run it into two uplifts at opposite ends of the tank , and pack it with filter floss and carbon . |
| 17 | She grabbed the French loaf and wrenched it into two unequal halves . |
| 18 | They were given some money , and told to divide it into two accounts , one ‘ private ’ , one ‘ public ’ . |
| 19 | To divide it into two parts , heaven and earth , might still be admissible , as it was for Newton , when discussing theological and political symbolism . |
| 20 | And the river Nive , which is a good deal slimmer and perfectly limpid up here , near to its source in the watershed , flows discreetly through the middle of the town , dividing it into two quite equal parts . |
| 21 | Taking the period 1979 — 85 , and dividing it into two parts , we find that in the years since 1983 the differences in surviving birth of infants born to parents in social class 1 , compared to those whose parents are in social classes IV and V , has widened . |
| 22 | Finally , here are two other methods of giving and not giving the reader a clue , besides burying it in a list of casual items , separating it into two with a wide gap between the parts of appearing , in putting it in , to be doing something else . |
| 23 | So your mum 's cut it up or you 've cut it up this time just between the two of us and you 've cut it into two halves you 've got half there and I 've got another half . |
| 24 | He told me how he worked his candy or piece of common-yard , dividing it into two by a path , and growing wheat on one side and vegetables on the other , changing over the crops each year . |
| 25 | the only way to do it is to split it into two continuous bits . |
| 26 | The excavations on the south side of the High Street in 1961–2 also revealed the earliest version of Watling Street , probably dating to the time of the conquest , with associated timber-framed buildings ; the road was originally 2.7 m ( 9 ft ) wide , although it was soon widened to 6.7 m ( 22 ft ) , and a central stone-built drain effectively divided it into two carriageways . |
| 27 | Leni came back with the coffee and poured it into two non-matching teacups . |
| 28 | We should easily make it into two hundred pages or so . ’ |
| 29 | For instance , if that 's an overseer 's house and you extend the town and want to turn it into two labourers ’ houses , all you do is add a w.c. upstairs , change the stair entry , and remove the coloured-tile decoration from the balcony and cornice . ’ |
| 30 | Er , the cash flow is slightly crowded and to we 've split it into two slides . |