Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 4 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 5 | The replacements got their planes off the ground and Woolley marshalled them into a broad arrowhead , with Dickinson and Church out on the flanks . |
| 6 | Amy 's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager . |
| 7 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 8 | A Reception lady showed me into a tiny broadcasting room full of switched-off microphones . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 12 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
| 13 | Finniston converted it into a major international research organisation that still exists today . |
| 14 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 15 | In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank . |
| 16 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Willi led her into a huge living-room with a window looking over the valley . |
| 19 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 20 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 23 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |
| 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 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 28 | Patrick followed her into the front room , his eyes taking in her home . |
| 29 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 30 | He said his hectic work schedule led him into a downward spiral where he needed a drink to relax and help him sleep . |