Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] it into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the Jubilee Year the University has decided to inject some resources into the association to develop it into a larger and more effective body , to enable graduates to keep in touch with the University and each other . |
| 2 | Although everyone was a bit wary of an undeserved Soton equaliser , Beeney mopped up any semblance of an attack , and after good work by Strachan in not letting Benali shepherd the ball out for a goal kick , he dispossessed him , took it past another defender and played it across the goal for Speed to slot it into the bottom left corner . |
| 3 | And I can always remember it was in the middle of winter and put on the , the four that bit circular bit put it into the four wheel drive and it came up there wonderful and the , yet er going in we were and the other car was swaying all over the place . |
| 4 | The tuner turns it into a hand-held TV . |
| 5 | In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank . |
| 6 | Instead the overwrought director turned it into a bitter battle which ends with the lover , played by Sydney Pollack , savagely forcing Lysette 's character into his car . |
| 7 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |
| 8 | But when the frog leapt out from behind one of the bananas , the astonished shopper scooped it into an empty tub of margarine and , fearing it might be poisonous , rushed Freddie to Lydney police station . |
| 9 | Her welding torch has been applied to an old mini to turn it into a Pink hippopotamus . |
| 10 | The coincidental presence of the Prince of Wales in Broadstairs for a brief private visit to a friend on the same evening converted it into a two-paragraph story . |
| 11 | Perm lotion breaks down the natural structure of your hair , then a neutraliser resets it into a new shape around a curler . |
| 12 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 13 | The decision to turn it into an independent corporation has been welcomed , although the government 's power to veto members less so . |
| 14 | It 's being sold with planning permission to turn it into a hundred and twenty bed hotel . |
| 15 | The brewers to whom it belonged , having ideas , like all brewers in the 1960s , of reviving the supposed jollity of the eighteenth century , had applied for permission to turn it into a fashionable beer garden . |
| 16 | The plea was heartfelt , but the tone of her voice made it into a peremptory command , and his eyes narrowed . |
| 17 | The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions . |
| 18 | The only way to overcome this was to add gold dust , heat the two together until the molten gold bound the platinum granules together , and then by alternately heating and hammering the mixture convert it into a compact mass capable of being forged or cast . |
| 19 | As far as overall weight is concerned , it 's surprisingly manageable and its size puts it into the larger car boot category for transport . |
| 20 | The SVi has the basic 2-litre engine — catalytically converted like the other petrol models — but its interior brings it into the luxury class . |
| 21 | An eerie , green glow in the sky behind the tower turned it into a ghostly galleon on a leaden sea ; Claro itself , a crazy house , leaning this way and bulging that . |
| 22 | MVS was never objectively the best mainframe operating system : all the cognoscenti insisted that Burroughs Corp 's Master Control Program knocked it into a cocked hat . |
| 23 | The displays demonstrate the reality , provide live plants to look at , and assure us that nothing larger than an unfortunate lizard or rat makes it into the green traps . |
| 24 | The monotony of housework turns it into a mindless task . |
| 25 | The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ . |
| 26 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |
| 27 | However , Britain struggled elsewhere with Christian Burge , fourth on the boys sailboard , the only other team member to make it into the top half of the fleet . |
| 28 | It has seized and deformed it , in each region twisting it into a latent value-system which , put into an abstract , depersonalized form , has in one place produced the French revolutionary ideal , in another Anglo-Saxon liberalism , elsewhere communism , Muslim fundamentalism , social democracy , Buddhist socialism , and many other secondary forms . |
| 29 | The person who severs the wire coils it into a large loop so that the metal inside the insulation will not touch the ground or the wall . |
| 30 | You will probably need to push or pull it to overcome a detent to move it into the macro position . |