Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] it into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had a really tight budget and we feared the cost of turning it into a home was way beyond our means . |
| 2 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 3 | There 's been talk on the council of turning it into a swimming pool , but they ca n't afford it . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing , but you 're in danger of turning it into an art form . |
| 5 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 6 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 7 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 8 | He had no sense of humour , and he would keep harping on his seminary training instead of thrusting it into the background and making a fresh start . |
| 9 | Their problems are not likely to be solved unless this aspect of them is dealt with and some skill may be necessary in drawing it into the light . |
| 10 | She goes quiet again and takes one last draw from the cigarette before stubbing it into the ashtray . |
| 11 | Christine made a grab for his gun as it spun away , but only succeeded in pushing it into a console , where its trigger caught on the comer . |
| 12 | The spring should be cleaned before inserting it into the pipe and a long piece of string attached to the loop on the bending spring . |
| 13 | He studied the English copy for a few more moments before dropping it into the shredder . |
| 14 | He unspooled it , ripped it from the plastic , then rolled it in his palms before dropping it into an ashtray . |
| 15 | So , for perfect results , reduce everything to the lowest common denominator before putting it into the press . |
| 16 | Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were characterised as an ‘ extension of the conditions which the Soviet Union set earlier on the normalisation of conditions in the basin of the Indian Ocean , on transforming it into a zone of peace ’ . |
| 17 | Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February . |
| 18 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 19 | We should n't be bashed for putting it into a sale ; we help to bring it to a resolution by bringing out it into the open ’ . |
| 20 | It 's a poor reason , is it not , for introducing it into the cost structure of a game which , as you rightly say , is ‘ … very expensive ’ . |
| 21 | Well this is the area that you 'll have to do something about is the if you 're gon na knock it into the Winter Gardens this is the area that knocks into the Winter Gardens . |
| 22 | You use this both to anchor the sledge during a trip , by stamping it into the snow , and at the start of each day to hold the sledge , by clunking it on to a tree trunk . |
| 23 | The effect of a specific sequence on gene expression was therefore assessed by cloning it into the Bam HI site at -105 in this promoter . |
| 24 | The gene was transferred by splicing it into the DNA of a bacterium which naturally infects plant cells . |
| 25 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 26 | By releasing it into the world , he relieved himself and taunted the fates to punish him . |
| 27 | He degrades the nobility of the place by turning it into a weekend retreat ; the human beings firmly under his sway — the Damsels , and the Artist — do not question his purpose , and he announces that his achievement will last for ever : |
| 28 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
| 29 | Now that is a humiliating experience , so you get through by turning it into a joke . |
| 30 | In its better forms , such as the Avro 504 and the various Moths , the wooden biplane was almost everlasting and the structure could really only be broken by flying it into the ground . |