Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] it into [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank .
2 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 .
3 The startled shopper handed it into the local police station .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 The plea was heartfelt , but the tone of her voice made it into a peremptory command , and his eyes narrowed .
8 The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 ’ .
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