Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You could n't be alone with your tragedy , you were expected to bring it into the living-room with you , as the others brought their newspapers , knitting , homework . |
| 2 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 3 | As individual developments , both directions were destined to run themselves into the ground . |
| 4 | Isaacs named the substance interferon , and for some years vigorous efforts were made to develop it into a practical therapeutic agent . |
| 5 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 6 | Every time she put her nose out of the door , there he seemed to be , and if he was n't outside he was inside , making provocative remarks that were guaranteed to drive her into a fury . |
| 7 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 8 | For a moment , Implexion thought she meant their affair and was attempting to push it into the realms of firm commitment . |
| 9 | The hoverspeeder , its motors still idling , was attempting to wedge itself into the hole in the wall which Daak must have made with the vehicle 's front thrusters . |
| 10 | She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman . |
| 11 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |
| 12 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
| 13 | Having him there at the beginning was simply a stroke of luck so colossal that Henry 's natural pessimism was trying to turn it into a disaster . |
| 14 | no wonder it was , me dad was trying to get her into the house and everything and she said oh well so and so 's got me key well I said I 'm not bloody phoning er their Nora |
| 15 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 16 | He huddled up as if he was trying to roll himself into a ball . |
| 17 | But , of course , I was determined to take him into the company and his first role for us was Tamino in Magic Flute . |
| 18 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 19 | I was determined to make it into a lovely home . ’ |
| 20 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |