Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] into [art] [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist 's waiting-room . |
| 2 | My natural speed turned me into a wing three-quarter at rugby for the colts , though I can always recall matches in the centre and at fly-half . |
| 3 | Further contributions by Alberti , Masaccio , Uccello , Piero della Francesca and Dürer developed it into an instrument capable , in the visual arts , of freezing time . |
| 4 | It 's very friendly And it followed us into the lane several times and then we 'd chase it back |
| 5 | Anyway , the Old Man — well , he called me into the Sanctum this morning and said , had I heard anything from you , and I said no , and he said silly bitch , or words to that effect — with which I agree — said he 'd told you you should keep in touch with me . |
| 6 | She took me into the first-floor front room , where my father had already been laid out in his coffin . |
| 7 | The Conservatives , Winston Churchill predicted , with rather more prescience than Asquith , would not ‘ act as bottle holders to those who kicked us into the street three months ago and deliberately erected this Socialist monstrosity ’ . |
| 8 | They eagerly embraced me into a family rich with eccentric aunts , brainy brothers , cranky grannies and caustic uncles , and the day they began referring to me as ‘ our Lynne ’ was the happiest day of my life . |
| 9 | Seconds after she pushed him into the channel any pleasure , or sense of power , had evaporated . |