Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] into a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pot up one or two strawberry plants for a special treat : bring them into a cool greenhouse or conservatory , watering sparingly . |
| 2 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 3 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 4 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 5 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 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 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 8 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 9 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 10 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 11 | 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 ] . |
| 12 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 16 | Religion keeps people in an infantile state , but by drawing them into a mass delusion , it succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis . |
| 17 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 18 | According to ICL , notebooks have two distinct uses : first , they are a user 's only or main machine — so , it must be possible to plug them into a local network , and they must have the functionality of a standard personal computer . |
| 19 | Employing the naively biographical paradigm of Gay Authorship , Brief Encounter shows Noel Coward displacing his own fears , anxieties and pessimism about the possibility of a fulfilled sexual relationship within an oppressively homophobic culture by transposing them into a heterosexual context . |
| 20 | But there will be those who will grab the trends and steer them into a new direction . |
| 21 | Then he divested her of her stockings , tossing them into a shimmering heap on the floor . |
| 22 | You simply plug them into a convenient socket outlet inside the house ( protected by an RCD ) and put away once you 've finished using them . |
| 23 | But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life . |
| 24 | It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES . |
| 25 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 26 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 27 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 28 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 29 | Clare helped her into a black car that stood by the kerb with its door open . |
| 30 | Colleague Evelyn Cookson and a stranger hoisted Tammy to her feet and helped her into a waiting ambulance . |