Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [to-vb] [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ten painful operations to turn me into a picture |
| 2 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 3 | The phone wo n't ring because there 's a two-second delay to get you into the device . |
| 4 | And 47-year-old Peter , who models himself on rock legend Elvis Presley , reckons he has the perfect record to make him into an all-round star — Bhingi Bajee Boogy . |
| 5 | It would take at least another seven or eight years to turn her into a recognizable human being . |
| 6 | The Turks might try to tax , or offer administrative salaries to Zuwaya who were willing to participate in government ; but Zuwaya always resisted these attempts to bring them into the reach of government . |
| 7 | R4 THIS MORNING SAYS DON HOWE IS ANOTHER LIKELY CANDIDATE TO TAKE US INTO THE NEW YEAR . |
| 8 | Coin Street Community Builders [ CSCB ] , owner/developers of the site , are strugging to find continued financial support for their ambitious scheme to convert it into a complex of 7O craft workshops , a riverside food court , and flats to be let by a housing co-operative . |
| 9 | Will he consider bringing the Conservative party , and talking to the Scottish National party to bring it into the Scottish Constitutional Convention so that we can then have a genuine debate on which way the constitution of Scotland should go ? |
| 10 | The first such is Microsoft Workgroup Templates : these are bundles of technologies , such as macros and dynamic link libraries which can be bolted onto existing applications to turn them into a specific workgroup ‘ solution ’ . |
| 11 | If you are concerned about death benefits , you should certainly consider an alteration to your existing policy to change it into a plan which meets your needs . |
| 12 | The other possibility explained in our conversation of September 29 was an ‘ alternative choice to place it into a vintage aircraft auction . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We think that the products coming out of this factory are of such a standard and quality that there is a very good potential to sell them into the market , ’ he said . |
| 14 | It was a great thing to get HE into a village to see conditions and what needs to be done , and I was able to press home some of my own ideas about village life and health . |
| 15 | They made what seemed to me rather artificial efforts to draw me into the conversation . |
| 16 | It is thought that , because bacteria are so tiny , the Earth 's gravity has little effect on them and they need their miniature magnets to guide them into the sediment . |
| 17 | The otter was the only strictly European species to make it into the overall ‘ Top 10 ’ , though badger , fox and hedgehog all got as far as the top 20 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Similarly , the Hungarians became the principal external threat to the Christianized Germanic peoples of Europe in the late ninth and tenth centuries , particularly in conjunction with the Slavs ; and after the former 's defeat and settlement on the Middle Danube , it was a natural instinct of the Saxon rulers to draw them into the orbit of western Christian kingdoms . |
| 20 | Father-of-three Russell Telford , 29 , forced the pit-cage operator to let him into the lift . |
| 21 | Any attempt to introduce them into the discourse is immediately blocked by the slogan posing as question — ‘ but is it philosophy ? ’ |
| 22 | They were incapable of experiencing any emotions , their bloodstreams devoid of blood yet flowing with drugs to sustain their pitiful physical states until he received the call , the dreaded call to wheel them into the lift and press the green button . |
| 23 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |
| 24 | In February , it swept past Jupiter with British instruments on board , harnessing the planet 's gravitational field to hurl it into an orbit enabling study of the poles of the Sun in 1994–95 . |
| 25 | I should like to learn what , if anything , I can do here to enrol for any suitable course to get me into the business world or administration as I do not want to wait till I return to the UK , on leave , in mid-June till I begin finding out more about your courses . |
| 26 | One of my assets in journalism , as Fred Workman told me some years later , was the habit of creating stories and features by developing an idea and then taking the necessary steps to work it into an acceptable feature . |
| 27 | ‘ 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 . |
| 28 | It needs a new person to take it into the future , someone free of the old , deeply ingrained prejudices and affiliations . |
| 29 | So Swindon have a new man to lead them into the Premier League . |
| 30 | Appledorn said clear plastic film can also be covered with triangular grooves to make it into a mirror for use as ‘ light pipes ’ for more efficient road lighting , while other shapes create a reflector to make a road sign stand out when illuminated . |