Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] it into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 2 | SIR — On coming into £40,000 I decided to put it into a trust for my grandchildren , to be paid out as each reaches the age of 24 years . |
| 3 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 4 | Lady , a Jack Russell from Hampshire , loves travelling in her owner 's van so much that she decided to transform it into the perfect den to have her puppies . |
| 5 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 6 | It was still as gloomy as the day on which she had first seen it and she longed to transform it into a place of splendid elegance . |
| 7 | She wanted to turn it into a little sitting-room for herself and she wanted to keep its Chinese theme . |
| 8 | The citadel bacame a furniture warehouse , before it was bought by Tamara Malcom and her husband in 1973 and they applied to convert it into a theatre . |
| 9 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |
| 10 | They wanted to make it into a special dress but it would not come right . |
| 11 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 12 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 13 | It seemed to jerk it into a sense of purpose . ’ |
| 14 | We know that Wordsworth thought highly of this entry , for he began to copy it into a notebook , and used its phrases in a fragment of poetry : |
| 15 | He had to pay it into a blocked bank account . |
| 16 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 17 | He hoped to convert it into a photographic studio — and then he found that there was not a single pane of glass left , and the rain had got in . |