Example sentences of "[was/were] [vb pp] [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 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 .
6 In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force .
7 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 .
8 At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death .
9 But , of course , I was determined to take him into the company and his first role for us was Tamino in Magic Flute .
10 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 .
11 I was determined to make it into a lovely home . ’
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