Example sentences of "[vb infin] them into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 2 | Retirement , when it comes , hits these people unnecessarily hard , and can propel them into a downward spiral of lethargy and depression , leading to premature death . |
| 3 | Some were canonised and others — like Eckhart and Tauler — were hounded by the Church , but all were seen to be of enormous importance by their contemporaries , even by people who could not follow them into the inner world . |
| 4 | Although they will gallop around trying to get rid of the bot-fly , they seem to quickly discover that the bot will not follow them into the dense shade of a shelter shed or stable . |
| 5 | Control will sell them into the federal market . |
| 6 | When Soviet citizens began to question the merits of nuclear energy , they were questioning one of the most basic assumptions of their system : that communism would lead them into the high-tech future , and that the high-tech future would be greatly better than the present . |
| 7 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
| 8 | My wife asked me to dismantle an island breakfast bar , and retain the units so we could incorporate them into the existing kitchen later . |