Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques .
3 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 .
4 Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) .
5 It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’
6 She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back .
7 I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward .
8 The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom .
9 She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby .
10 The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off .
11 Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls .
12 I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans .
13 Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too .
14 Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause .
15 Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto .
16 I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure .
17 In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] .
18 The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre .
19 Clare helped her into a black car that stood by the kerb with its door open .
20 Colleague Evelyn Cookson and a stranger hoisted Tammy to her feet and helped her into a waiting ambulance .
21 He threw the luggage into the boot of her hired car and helped her into the front seat .
22 He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar .
23 This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home
24 That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record .
25 The court heard Pinnell , now of Halsway Cottage , Crowcombe , Taunton , Somerset , had taken the car on several occasions but on the last one crashed it into a dry stone wall .
26 The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth .
27 I had hardly had time to consider this problem : rip P J O'Rourke off , or get dressed , before the pilot jerked us into a vertical dive ?
28 Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes .
29 She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket .
30 Eva Hendrix started to chatter in her persuasive voice while the uniformed chauffeur drove them into the ancient town of Freiburg .
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