Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] 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 | Finniston converted it into a major international research organisation that still exists today . |
| 3 | In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The plea was heartfelt , but the tone of her voice made it into a peremptory command , and his eyes narrowed . |
| 11 | The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions . |
| 12 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 13 | An eerie , green glow in the sky behind the tower turned it into a ghostly galleon on a leaden sea ; Claro itself , a crazy house , leaning this way and bulging that . |
| 14 | MVS was never objectively the best mainframe operating system : all the cognoscenti insisted that Burroughs Corp 's Master Control Program knocked it into a cocked hat . |
| 15 | Super Mario Land by the Ambassadors Of Funk featuring MC Mario made it into the Top 10 in November . |
| 16 | The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ . |