Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] into an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 2 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 3 | Stage 4 : Care planning — Negotiating the most appropriate ways of achieving the objectives identified by the assessment of need and incorporating them into an individual care plan . |
| 4 | Use a sharp scraper to lift off deposits and ladle them into an empty bucket for disposal . |
| 5 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 6 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 7 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 8 | For MCI , the new venture will do more than transform it into an international presence . |
| 9 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
| 10 | Guinness Mahon , a British merchant bank 65%-owned by Bank of Yokohama , gave warning that bad debts will plunge it into an after-tax loss of £35m ( $67m ) for the six months to March 31st . |
| 11 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 12 | A back pass from player-manager Hoddle seemed to catch Hammond by surprise and the goalkeeper hit the ball straight to the feet of Posh 's Tony Adcock , who put it into an empty net . |
| 13 | In the ‘ we-reap-as-we-sow ’ category this week there are reports by Computer Reseller News that WordPerfect is now thinking about dusting off its long-standing complaints against Microsoft Corp and turning them into an anti-trust action if the US Federal Trade Commission does n't hop to and litigate . |
| 14 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 15 | But be warned that some species react badly to a change of water chemistry , and a ‘ home quarantine tank in which the fish may be further conditioned and observed before releasing them into an established aquarium , is an asset . |
| 16 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |
| 17 | But if Urquhart were speaking the truth at last — and she wondered whether yet another web of deception was being woven about her — he had forged her into an unwitting tool of the Soviet Union . |
| 18 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 19 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 20 | a system is abolished only by pushing it into hyperlogic , by forcing it into an excessive practice which is equivalent to a brutal amortization … |
| 21 | The Plant committee was expected to report to the Labour Party conference in the autumn , but Mr Kinnock denied that turning it into an official government commission was a delaying tactic . |
| 22 | But even if they did not , the style demanded players of exceptional calibre — who were becoming increasingly rare — and a manager capable of moulding them into an effective outfit ; in this no one measured up to Chapman . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'll live with it , ’ Luke answered somewhat grimly , waiting for her to precede him into an empty lift as the door slid open . |
| 24 | But when the frog leapt out from behind one of the bananas , the astonished shopper scooped it into an empty tub of margarine and , fearing it might be poisonous , rushed Freddie to Lydney police station . |
| 25 | ‘ Management should deliberately endeavour to build these effective groups , linking them into an overall organisation by means of people who hold overlapping group membership . ' |
| 26 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 27 | I think just , if you 've got the number you can take it into an ordinary bank . |
| 28 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |
| 29 | Back inside the house he gathered them into an oversized bunch and headed for the kitchen , leaving a trail of fallen petals in his wake . |
| 30 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |