Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pers pn] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 2 | The exhausted coolies stumbled against one another in panic as the overseers marshalled them into a circle with blows about the head and shoulders . |
| 3 | In the case of this group , they were able to define the questions related to strategy , to conduct their own inquiries , to have staff people conduct some relevant research , to have three individuals organise it into a presentation that was ultimately approved and owned by the top group . |
| 4 | She asked the powers to make her into a Stone as well but this was not granted . |
| 5 | At the top the beetles have discovered the dead mouse ; they bury it by tunnelling beneath it and removing the earth from below so that it drops down into the excavation ; at the bottom as the mouse sinks down into the earth the beetles roll it into a ball ready for the reception of their eggs . |
| 6 | Ten painful operations to turn me into a picture |
| 7 | It hardly matters whether either of these stories is true , we know that cork was available , although not in France , and that Dom Pérignon did eventually use cork-stoppers for his wines , as corked bottles were dug up at Hautvillers when Moët & Chandon renovated the abbey in the late 1970s during its operations to turn it into a museum . |
| 8 | There are plans to turn it into a hotel , leaving visible the original Romanesque and Gothic buildings , including the Týn Court . |
| 9 | People living near a former young offenders institution are fighting plans to turn it into a detention centre for the immigration service . |
| 10 | But now the Forestry Commission has decided to end the uncertainty by announcing plans to turn it into a wood . |
| 11 | The wind screaming and the rain lashing on the windows sent me into a reverie . |
| 12 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 13 | Appledorn said clear plastic film can also be covered with triangular grooves to make it into a mirror for use as ‘ light pipes ’ for more efficient road lighting , while other shapes create a reflector to make a road sign stand out when illuminated . |
| 14 | Our university hosts led us into a room bedecked with tinsel and flashing fairy lights , and seated us around a circular table covered with elaborate cold starters . |