Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] it into [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other .
4 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 .
5 And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place .
6 The tuner turns it into a hand-held TV .
7 Finniston converted it into a major international research organisation that still exists today .
8 In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank .
9 Instead the overwrought director turned it into a bitter battle which ends with the lover , played by Sydney Pollack , savagely forcing Lysette 's character into his car .
10 The startled shopper handed it into the local police station .
11 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 .
12 Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus .
13 The coincidental presence of the Prince of Wales in Broadstairs for a brief private visit to a friend on the same evening converted it into a two-paragraph story .
14 But you 've probably noticed the ad count has risen considerably in recent months , due to the fact that we 've upped the pages to five and edited out some of the waffle ( which the waffler pays for , I might add ) in order to ensure that most ads make it into the desired issue .
15 Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler .
16 On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item .
17 An ANC statement on Jan. 27 expressed regret that the PAC was controlled by hostile forces , and that efforts to bring it into the main course of the armed struggle had failed .
18 In VR6 form as tested , it is also a particularly expensive little coupe , virtually double the price of the old Honda CRX which pioneered then dominated a limited niche market until Honda turned it into a two-seater ugly duckling .
19 The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so .
20 It 's being sold with planning permission to turn it into a hundred and twenty bed hotel .
21 The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden .
22 There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees .
23 The plea was heartfelt , but the tone of her voice made it into a peremptory command , and his eyes narrowed .
24 The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions .
25 The only way to overcome this was to add gold dust , heat the two together until the molten gold bound the platinum granules together , and then by alternately heating and hammering the mixture convert it into a compact mass capable of being forged or cast .
26 As far as overall weight is concerned , it 's surprisingly manageable and its size puts it into the larger car boot category for transport .
27 Evidencve of the original hospital is fading as new building and departments take it into the next century .
28 The SVi has the basic 2-litre engine — catalytically converted like the other petrol models — but its interior brings it into the luxury class .
29 The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 .
30 The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line .
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