Example sentences of "[verb] it into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point I saw Bunny write something , probably her ‘ phone number , on a drip mat and slip it into the back pocket of his jeans . |
| 2 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
| 3 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
| 4 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 5 | Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all |
| 6 | Thomas moved , knocking it into the red weed . |
| 7 | They would unite with the workers over their struggle for economic improvements only so that ‘ by smuggling in the Marxian doctrine , [ they could ] transform it into the ideological struggle of classes . ’ |
| 8 | Apply Vaseline liberally to the green insertion tool , fit it into the top section of the tap , then place the white seat on the end of the insertion tool . |
| 9 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 10 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 11 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now Barbara has gathered her comprehensive knowledge of the Southeast 's furnishing and decorating scene and put it into the second edition of The Ideal Home Design Sourcebook . |
| 14 | That will increase Fleet/Norstar 's assets by 40% to $47 billion , catapulting it into the top rank of American banks . |
| 15 | Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net . |
| 16 | It is a practical issue because by taking information out of the analogue world , the ‘ real ’ world , comprehensible and palpable to human beings , and translating it into the digital world , we make it infinitely changeable . |
| 17 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 18 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 19 | It draws magical power from the War Altar and passes it into the Grand Theogonist . |
| 20 | Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick . |
| 21 | We 've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security . |
| 22 | And then the bought the drill hall and turned it into the public hall and presented it to the island . |
| 23 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 24 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 25 | It vapourized Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands , turning it into the many-coloured mushroom cloud , 25 miles high and 100 miles wide , which became the symbol of anxiety for mankind . |
| 26 | Atheism is virtually unknown in pagan and rural societies , but this new rationalism will usher it into the modern world . |
| 27 | Once cut , re-insert it into the top bracket . |
| 28 | For large tensile specimens most test machines use swivelling or gimbal grip mountings to avoid such effects of non-axiality , but when small specimens are used , of a few millimetres in cross-section as is common with polymer tests , axiality may become more difficult to achieve because the mass of the swivelling grip requires considerable stress to rotate or move it into the axial position . |
| 29 | I re-read what I had written , wrestled with the fading vision for a few sweating minutes , then gave up , swore , crumpled the page up , pitched it into the empty fireplace , and said , aloud : What I really need is a good old-fashioned ivory tower . ’ |
| 30 | The defendant supplied the product otherwise than in the course of a business and the defendant did not produce it ( or own-brand it or import it into the European Community ) with a view to profit . |