Example sentences of "[to-vb] it into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seems to be looking straight at me , its knuckled legs poised , tense , waiting I know for one false move from me to trigger it into an electrifying spring … straight at me . |
| 4 | We plan to build it into a key player in the property market . ’ |
| 5 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 6 | Were we then to convert it into a unitary system entirely under university control ? ’ |
| 7 | He hoped to convert it into a photographic studio — and then he found that there was not a single pane of glass left , and the rain had got in . |
| 8 | Not guilty , did n't do it that 's why what gorilla man did sickened me ; no blood well hardly any blood literally a drop , a drip , a fucking pixel on the screen and the only thing slicing into flesh was a needle , tiny and delicate not a chainsaw or an axe or a knife or anything , but it 's that image that idea that old devil meme , I keep dreaming about it , keep having nightmares about it , and I 'm the trapped one , I 'm the man in the leather-and-chrome chair and he 's there with his gorilla face and his squeaky baby voice , explaining to the camera that what he has in this bottle and in this syringe is sperm ; the crazy fucker 's loaded it up with jism man looks like half a fucking milk bottle of the stuff and he 's going to inject it into the little guy 's veins and he ties something round the naked upper arm of the little guy strapped to the chair and pulls it tight and waits for the vein to show while the little guy howls and screams like a child and tries to shake the chair to bits or rip it apart but he 's too well strapped in there no purchase no leverage and then the man in the gorilla mask just does it ; sinks the needle into the little guy 's skin with a bit of blood and empties the whole syringe into him . |
| 9 | Some , responding to the phallocentrism which Lacanianism retains from traditional psychoanalysis , try to turn it into a gynocentric psychoanalysis . |
| 10 | She wanted to turn it into a little sitting-room for herself and she wanted to keep its Chinese theme . |
| 11 | ‘ And with his money tied up in the land he lacked the extra cash necessary to turn it into a paying proposition . ’ |
| 12 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 13 | The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered . |
| 14 | The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden . |
| 15 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 16 | Huge amounts of government money should be invested to turn it into the national effort . |
| 17 | There were plans to turn it into an opencast mine , but now the Forestry Commission , which administers the Forest from its headquarters in Coleford , has withdrawn its permisssion for British Coal to mine there , deciding instead to start re-planting trees . |
| 18 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 19 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 20 | At present , EUP is effectively a University department , and Mr Martin 's task is to transform it into an independent company , albeit one wholly owned by the University . |
| 21 | Lady , a Jack Russell from Hampshire , loves travelling in her owner 's van so much that she decided to transform it into the perfect den to have her puppies . |
| 22 | But damn him — it was bad enough that he be high-handed and autocratic when they were alone together — did he really have to carry it into the public arena too ? |
| 23 | He says : ‘ We are making more and more DCDs — Driver Controlled Deliveries — where the driver not only delivers a tanker of petrol to a filling station , but is trained to unload it into the underground storage tanks ’ This has become a necessity , as more and more petrol stations are operated by one person locked behind security windows . |
| 24 | A further coat of filler is then applied , then feathered to blend it into the surrounding board |
| 25 | I am enjoying my writing career and would like to develop it into a full-time career if I can earn enough money . |
| 26 | It is more important for them to defer their childbearing and to compress it into a short space of time in their married life . |
| 27 | If it appears healthy , simply let it go , or if it needs attention , try to direct it into a clean dustbin , tie the lid on and take it to the vet . |
| 28 | I mean , some people want it for income , so if they want that sort of fifteen hundred pounds coming in , and they both want access to it , I 'm quite happy to pay it into a joint account , providing it does n't actually give them a tax problem , in |
| 29 | He had to pay it into a blocked bank account . |
| 30 | Prime was born in the early 1970s , structured around the PrimOS operating system , which was developed on Honeywell Inc minicomputer hardware under a government contract , which meant that when people on the development team wanted to take it into the commercial world , they were able to buy the operating system for a nominal sum , and developed a new processor optimised to run it to create the 50 Series , the customer base for which will now be subject to a flock of companies wanting to win users over to their open systems . |