Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before him lies a dark , trackless , formless , chaotic field , which he probes with the antennae of his techniques and ideas , seeking by his action to transform it into pure presence . |
| 2 | Screens were placed along the length of the hall dividing it into four aisles , leaving spaces at either end and a way through to the Law Courts , which at that time were on the west side of the hall . |
| 3 | Although they had decided that it was a drill motor , Bernice 's imagination turned it into all sorts of monsters . |
| 4 | The growing nationalism of his schemes needed only the more autarchic economic plan and the authoritarian nature of political control to turn it into fully-fledged fascism . |
| 5 | In some fantastic way , he could see his mind like these barren screes — a frozen cascade of broken rock face lying on the more solid rock waiting only for an impulse to charge it into dangerous motion . |
| 6 | The general " unfairness test " will certainly need legislation to incorporate it into English law . |
| 7 | Add the oil and deep fry the pork , stirring with a spatula to break it into small pieces . |
| 8 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 9 | These instruments are used to make straight cuts across the embryo in order to subdivide it into particular regions or fragments . |
| 10 | This is the common teaching of the New Testament , but no writer brings it into sharper focus than St. John . |
| 11 | For example , a classificatory system imposed on the material divides it into abstract categories ( e.g. into a chronology on the basis of definable periods ; or into a typology , or system of sorting on the basis of formal likeness and difference ) . |
| 12 | The romantic-lyrical ballad style of twentieth-century Tin Pan Alley clings stubbornly to its role in the representation of gender relations within the norms set by the stereotype of the bourgeois couple , despite attempts made from time to time to move it into new patterns with new meanings . |