Example sentences of "[noun] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 2 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 3 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 4 | Thomas Cook himself , whose name was to become a by-word for organised tourism in the next twenty-five years , had begun his career arranging such outings and developed it into big business in 1851 . |
| 5 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 6 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 7 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 8 | He brought the dollars back to Jamaica and converted them into Jamaican dollars at the black market rate . |
| 9 | I was explaining this to your door porters when a most helpful youngster kindly took me in his charge and escorted me into this room . ’ |
| 10 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 11 | Corbett vaguely recalled the building as a pleasant two-storeyed affair : the fire must have caught the sun-dried timbers and turned it into this blackened mess . |
| 12 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 13 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 14 | They then measured the distance between Hartwell and Roade Station and divided it into three equal parts . |
| 15 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 16 | This blighted his prospects but turned him into new paths . |
| 17 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 18 | This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ : |
| 19 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 20 | Some dealers in either social camp will risk account-trading for themselves , often in tens of thousands of pounds , as a result of an Harvard Securities PLC , 95 Southwark Street , London SE1 which has taken people off the streets and turned them into high earning dealers , sometimes within weeks . |
| 21 | A shift in viewpoint , not in technology , totally changed the economics of ocean shipping and turned it into one of the major growth industries of the last 20 to 30 years . |
| 22 | Leni came back with the coffee and poured it into two non-matching teacups . |
| 23 | She grabbed the French loaf and wrenched it into two unequal halves . |