Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pers pn] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 2 | Before him lies a dark , trackless , formless , chaotic field , which he probes with the antennae of his techniques and ideas , seeking by his action to transform it into pure presence . |
| 3 | The computers process the satellite data to turn them into useful information . |
| 4 | The analysis and evaluation of the data to turn it into useful information at the fourth stage involves collating the quantitative assessments and ranking them in order . |
| 5 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 6 | In his speeches to the multitudes , Franco 's enthusiasm for the Falange put monarchists and military on notice that any attempt to push him into early retirement would have to contend with the mass opposition of his " popular support " . |
| 7 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 8 | The research will focus on three key agencies whose work brings them into direct contact both with offenders and the victims of crime : the police service , probation service and social services departments . |
| 9 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 10 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 11 | Apart from learning more about my own language , the eloquent richness of the Queen 's English and the previously undiscovered interest I had in teaching , my job brought me into close contact with real Spanish people . |
| 12 | Her family and friends made many attempts to draw her into public life , including offering the sub-editorship of a literary magazine , but these were all rejected . |
| 13 | Brezhnev responded with an appeal for the Great Powers to adopt certain norms in relations with Third World states including respect for the status of non-alignment chosen by them and abstention from attempts to draw them into military-political blocs of powers . |
| 14 | In spring 1981 Brezhnev responded with his formal proposal for the West to accept certain norms in relations with the Third World , including respect for their status of non-alignment and ‘ abstention from attempts to draw them into military-political blocs of powers ’ . |
| 15 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |
| 16 | The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order . |
| 17 | That left seven , easily outnumbered by Boscawen 's 15 , plus frigates , and he used his superiority to crushing effect in an action which began around 1.30 pm and continued next day , when the last four French ships were driven into Lagos Bay , about 19 miles [ 30 km ] east of Cape St Vincent , on the coast of Portugal , where Boscawen pursued them into Portuguese waters . |
| 18 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
| 19 | Mr Morgan and his organ releasing them into hysterical laughter had anaesthetized the horror of the past . |
| 20 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 21 | Zoe 's efforts to push him into unsuitable employment had been annoying and resistible . |
| 22 | Anger emanated from fitzAlan in waves , the force of it completely overwhelming her , even as the physical impact of that ruthless kiss stunned her into frozen immobility . |
| 23 | Then you may have to pay commission to convert them into local currency on your travels and could have to pay to reconvert those left over back into sterling on your return to Britain . |
| 24 | At the moment , much of the basic research is devoted to refining the yttrium , bismuth and thallium cuprates , and finding ways to turn them into useful films and wires . |
| 25 | The growing nationalism of his schemes needed only the more autarchic economic plan and the authoritarian nature of political control to turn it into fully-fledged fascism . |
| 26 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 27 | It has been shown to thrive on a diet of soluble uranium ions converting them into solid waste and thereby making them easier to remove . |
| 28 | Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest . |
| 29 | The general " unfairness test " will certainly need legislation to incorporate it into English law . |
| 30 | Look at what they 've done given nine billion to their wealthy friends to move them into private pensions supported pension holiday because company funds are so big increased national insurance so we 're all paying more , even though we get less and compare this with the disadvantage , women first . |