Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] into a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in my life — ça sera pour un autre jour — birds led me into a very unusual experience . |
| 2 | He answered with a minute shake of his head and she obeyed , sitting on to watch the fantastic skill with which they wove and rewove their patterns , each keeping the strings taut and symmetrical even as they transformed them into a completely new shape . |
| 3 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 4 | Instead of dragging it back into a tight knot in the nape of her neck , she twisted it into a more becoming coil , leaving the tendrils which had been twisted in the curl rags , to curl prettily round her face . |
| 5 | Being forcibly confined with other blind girls in a school which thought it was a public school soon turned me into a staunchly outspoken socialist . |
| 6 | Harry was enjoying himself : he had been drinking , and was in that pleasant state of semi-inebriation that softened his tongue and turned him into a quite amiable human being . |
| 7 | She 's kept the upper floor , turned it into a very nice flat for herself , and I — you also if you agree — could live downstairs . |
| 8 | After death the bodies of the victims of the eruption were rapidly buried by the accumulating ash , and rain falling on this ash soon after the eruption cemented it into a fairly hard mass before the flesh of the corpses had decayed . |
| 9 | Sport , and especially cricket , projected him into a much wider domain , though it came about almost by accident , and over the dead bodies of some in the BBC establishment of the time who thought his Hampshire burr ‘ vulgar ’ . |
| 10 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 11 | " Obedience was number one priority , " Joyce recollects , " and the respect and love we had for our parents and for one another forced us into a very successful household . " |