Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Originally it had no towers and was aisleless , but extensive additions in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries made it into a three-aisled church with a tall tower . |
2 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
3 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
4 | Amy 's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager . |
5 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
6 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
7 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
8 | We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre . |
9 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
10 | Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas . |
11 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |