Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 2 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 3 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The second key let them into a vaulted stone cellar , and groping torch in hand along the far wall behind the piled casks of wine , Thomas brushed the cobwebs from a low , insignificant door . |
| 7 | From time to time the press carries rumours of such enquiries , but they usually remain rumours unless legal action takes them into the public domain , because the DTI never comments or publishes the findings . |
| 8 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 9 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 10 | The replacements got their planes off the ground and Woolley marshalled them into a broad arrowhead , with Dickinson and Church out on the flanks . |
| 11 | An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security . |
| 12 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 13 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 14 | The tuner turns it into a hand-held TV . |
| 15 | Amy 's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager . |
| 16 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 17 | A Reception lady showed me into a tiny broadcasting room full of switched-off microphones . |
| 18 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 19 | Loretta followed her into a spacious drawing-room , and seated herself in a chair to one side of the tiled fireplace , while Veronica took the chair opposite . |
| 20 | Sharpe spurred her into a clumsy gallop that made his heavy sword flap in its slings and crash its disc hilt painfully onto his left thigh . |
| 21 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 22 | Be it nuking the world , winning at Brand 's Hatch , or wrestling with pixies , will all this fantasy turn you into a blob-shaped brain-dead computer-zombie ? |
| 23 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
| 24 | Finniston converted it into a major international research organisation that still exists today . |
| 25 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 26 | In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank . |
| 27 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The first hundred yards ' walking up the gill leads you into the rocky vault of Lower Ease Gill Kirk . |
| 30 | The cobbled lane plunges you into a genial old quarter packed with restaurants . |