Example sentences of "[noun sg] by [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I do not try and cosset these over winter by placing them into a separate tank in the garage , reasoning that the survivors will be the toughest of the bunch and more likely to make up into sturdy adult fish : come spring , they are distributed to friends . |
2 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
3 | He degrades the nobility of the place by turning it into a weekend retreat ; the human beings firmly under his sway — the Damsels , and the Artist — do not question his purpose , and he announces that his achievement will last for ever : |
4 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |
5 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
6 | Despite being repeatedly arrested and brought back home , bruised and beaten by the police , she finally got to see the King by throwing herself into the road in front of the Royal car . |
7 | A brave staff member believed he was risking his life by throwing it into the street . |
8 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
9 | Downstairs , inside the house , Kalchu was preparing the cockerel by plunging it into a pan of boiling water , then plucking out its feathers by the handful . |
10 | Before preparing subsequent doses , succuss or shake the stock bottle by hitting it into the palm of your hand 8 to 12 times . |
11 | Employing the naively biographical paradigm of Gay Authorship , Brief Encounter shows Noel Coward displacing his own fears , anxieties and pessimism about the possibility of a fulfilled sexual relationship within an oppressively homophobic culture by transposing them into a heterosexual context . |
12 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
13 | The rationale was simple : if arsenic could be made into a better drug by incorporating it into an organic compound , why not mercury ? |
14 | Artists in this tradition have always striven to celebrate the present by prolonging it into the future . |
15 | Other stunts included the breaking up of Labour party meetings and vandalizing a Daily Herald van by driving it into the railings of a London church . |
16 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |