Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 2 | At last he unlocked a heavily carved door , and after a moment Meredith saw that he 'd led her into a large office with plaster frescos and a glorious ceiling of painted angels hung with gilded chandeliers . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 5 | Dreams and reality had collided in her shocked mind with stunning force , sending her hurtling over the edge of that invisible precipice , and the fall had broken her into a thousand agonising pieces , like brittle shards of glass that could never be whole again . |
| 6 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 7 | The families along the river were closely related and inter-marriage had fused them into a larger unit . |
| 8 | Doc Threadneedle had turned her into a human perpetual motion machine , like one of those dipping birds her father had bought her as a child . |
| 9 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 10 | But if Urquhart were speaking the truth at last — and she wondered whether yet another web of deception was being woven about her — he had forged her into an unwitting tool of the Soviet Union . |
| 11 | Surely by that time many of you must have realised that had got you into a right pickle over L M S and that you some of you I believe felt that but none of you spoke out about it . |
| 12 | A mere two hundred miles from Washington had brought them into a different season although it was obviously the first hint of real autumn in New York : around them others were hurrying because they were too thinly dressed or tugging at coats and gloves that were unfamiliar and awkward after half a year at the back of the closet . |
| 13 | The President himself had transmuted it into a grand desire for peace . |
| 14 | Johnny 's double standards , and his entrenched belief in the superiority of the male , had led her into an angry tirade of defence designed only to prove that she was exactly the cheap little tart that he so obviously thought her.Their relationship seemed to be increasingly an exercise in one-upmanship : my time 's better than yours ; so there ! |
| 15 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 16 | They had converted them into a fine house , which had been requisitioned by the Germans : the officer in charge was a Captain Foghel who , by the time we were taken to Tabiano , had already been transferred to Bologna . |
| 17 | Originally a woodshed , the previous owners had converted it into a thatched extension that is now lined with books . |
| 18 | His feelings were cleansed of the poisons of revenge , contempt , self-hatred , envy and avarice which had worked him into a hellish turbulence of vicious thoughts . |
| 19 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 20 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |