Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] it into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the humanities comprise a number of disciplines and subjects , of which English is only one ; the Leavisite attempt to turn it into the Queen of the Sciences never looked like succeeding . |
| 2 | If the bat 's brain hears an echo from another bat 's cry , and attempts to incorporate it into the picture of the world that it has previously built up , it will make no sense . |
| 3 | Straw Dogs managed to attract enough blood seekers to put it into the black at the box-office , but this disturbing tale of rural atrocities can scarcely have done much for the Cornish tourist industry . |
| 4 | ‘ Now , lift a spoonful of mixture out of the bowl with one spoon and use the other spoon to push it into the paper case like this , ’ Mum said . |
| 5 | It needs a new person to take it into the future , someone free of the old , deeply ingrained prejudices and affiliations . |
| 6 | Advice to splash it into the saute pan strikes a rough rude note . |
| 7 | I lifted a broken placard that was lying in the centre of the road to throw it into the side when two policemen pounced on me . |
| 8 | There were a few who would have asked the same question , looking at Joan Rush , senior project officer with the fund , a prime mover in the group which has beavered away at the subject to bring it into the mainstream of policy and practice . |
| 9 | She would hold the end of the twine while he walked away from her backwards across the freshly dug earth , unwinding the ball of twine slowly and deliberately , crouching at the other end to peg it into the earth , then coming back to stake her end too . |