Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] it [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | Isaacs named the substance interferon , and for some years vigorous efforts were made to develop it into a practical therapeutic agent . |
| 3 | When Churchill gave his first broadcast , suggesting that the Labour Party might have to resort to ‘ some form of Gestapo , no doubt very humanely directed in the first instance ’ , the electors were bound to regard it as a gross exaggeration ; Attlee , following the next night , could readily ask his audience to distinguish between ‘ Winston Churchill , the great leader in war of a united nation , and Mr Churchill the party leader of the Conservatives ’ . |
| 4 | We had a job which was involved in loading up the day before this is in a big van , in the previous job I I had , er er a large van fu filling it full of a houseful of furniture in the afternoon , sp spending two or three hours taking it out of store , and we were asked to deliver it to an address in New Brighton . |
| 5 | Years later they even kept a black panther for a while , until there were complaints and they were forced to send it to a wildlife park . |
| 6 | They were trying to back it into a stable but the magnificent beast was all set to charge . |
| 7 | However , what is most interesting is that a deliberate attempt was made to sell it as a concept rather than as what might have hitherto been seen as a package of infrastructural measures . |
| 8 | It , too , was nearly dead , but he was persuaded to release it in a bay long enough for it to be filmed with an underwater camera as it swam slowly above the bottom . |
| 9 | Before the Tate/LaBianca murders happened , however , Charles Manson was attempting to make it as a rock star . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I was determined to make it into a lovely home . ’ |
| 12 | When I asked Dad he mumbled something about entertaining so maybe he was planning to turn it into a theatre or something . |
| 13 | The opposition had persistently opposed such a change , arguing that Roh — who was constitutionally prohibited from serving more than one five-year term as President — was planning to use it as a means of retaining power . |