Example sentences of "make [pron] into " in BNC.

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1 It is they who plucked starving kids from the back streets and made them into heroes before they sank into oblivion mentally and metaphorically .
2 None the less , their ability to achieve rapid movements not only in battle but , more important , before it , and to act in unison with the men-at-arms ( who were also mounted ) made them into ‘ by far the most important element in the armies which fought in France ’ .
3 Thus the dealers were forced to bluff the more , which amazingly , made them into more effective salesmen .
4 The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation .
5 A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . "
6 when they wore thin on the end and we had to put a new link in we never threw the two halves of the link away , we pointed them and made them into staples .
7 and it 's the literacy that just de made them into child adults
8 I 'll make them into double deckers .
9 That 's what record companies do , they give 'em just enough money to go and make a single , tell 'em they 're gon na make them into stars and the next minute , they do n't push the single , they do n't bother with it .
10 Secondly , we have ‘ unnatural ’ recordings , in which original sounds ( or in some cases electrical waveforms which have never even had a separate acoustic existence ) are subject to processes which make them into something new .
11 For this team game , get two paper cups and make them into button catchers by piercing a hole in the bottom with a needle or pin and threading through a length of reasonably strong cotton .
12 They now try to seek out alliances with other companies that want their materials recycled and companies willing to buy recyclables and make them into something useful .
13 Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four .
14 So you could try it like this if we had twenty four we could see what happens if you make them into twos ?
15 What happened if you make them into threes ?
16 Because another one was er we come down the houses in here , empty houses and in , in the summer they used to grow flowers , Marguerites , and we used to go in the backyard , we were n't supposed to , er and cut these flowers and make them into bunches and , and sell them for tuppence and thruppence a bunch .
17 Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs .
18 Gather together favourite recipes , make them into a booklet and sell for funds .
19 What you 've got to do now is make them into salesmen , forgive me again for using the phrase salesmen , I appreciate that all of you are not men .
20 ‘ I 'M very suspicious of people who take other people 's lives and make them into what they call theatre , ’ Ford says .
21 They used to use , make them into flashers and hooks for hedge cutting and
22 And then you could say well we could try threes try that see if you could make em into into sets of three .
23 Kane , in creating the world , did not , like Yahweh , make light : he made himself into light .
24 I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person .
25 But he was n't very good , and even to please her ( which was his only motive for practising ) he could not make himself into a musician .
26 Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today .
27 After she had made me into a clown , she laughed in a very satisfied way .
28 Gustave would have made me into a hermit had he been able : the hermit of Paris .
29 It was partly about fairs but mainly about Theme Parks , which is what big business has made them into in the US and what they are becoming here .
30 These two people , whose success is almost totally dependent upon the effectiveness of the publicity machines which have made them into heroes , are currently ( eternally , it seems ) in just about every magazine and paper you pick up .
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