Example sentences of "[vb past] it into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 2 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |
| 7 | She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed . |
| 8 | Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick . |
| 9 | At one point , towards the end of the seventeenth century , the church was possessed by Daniel Disney who turned it into a Presbyterian Meeting House but by 1812 it was back in the hands of the Church of England again . |
| 10 | One turned it into a front room and one going down , and two in the alley on the left hand side , one in the alley on the right hand side . |
| 11 | He never lost sight of the religious nature of his subject , and never turned it into a boring desert . |
| 12 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 13 | Instead the overwrought director turned it into a bitter battle which ends with the lover , played by Sydney Pollack , savagely forcing Lysette 's character into his car . |
| 14 | An eerie , green glow in the sky behind the tower turned it into a ghostly galleon on a leaden sea ; Claro itself , a crazy house , leaning this way and bulging that . |
| 15 | On to the Poet Laureate , Lord Tennyson and Volume I only of his Works , a book which ordinarily , as an odd volume , might well have been sold for £1 or less had not the inscription on the title turned it into a desirable association item . |
| 16 | He turned it into a four-course meal , thus : |
| 17 | The dress proved such a hit that the London company who made the original for Diana turned it into an off-the-peg line . |
| 18 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 19 | And then the bought the drill hall and turned it into the public hall and presented it to the island . |
| 20 | During his two years as Second Secretary , Administration , in Kingston , Jamaica , when he had responsibility for the accounts , he withdrew $150,000 from the Commission 's US dollar account and paid it into a personal account in America . |
| 21 | But when the frog leapt out from behind one of the bananas , the astonished shopper scooped it into an empty tub of margarine and , fearing it might be poisonous , rushed Freddie to Lydney police station . |
| 22 | Anyway , they unloaded the sculpture with reverence , popped it into a transparent showcase filled with the right gases , made a number of loud noises expressing awe and admiration , and wheeled it away without having noticed a thing . |
| 23 | I re-read what I had written , wrestled with the fading vision for a few sweating minutes , then gave up , swore , crumpled the page up , pitched it into the empty fireplace , and said , aloud : What I really need is a good old-fashioned ivory tower . ’ |
| 24 | MVS was never objectively the best mainframe operating system : all the cognoscenti insisted that Burroughs Corp 's Master Control Program knocked it into a cocked hat . |
| 25 | Whilst Hobbes described the rational structure of such a concentration of power and developed it into a veritable philosophy of power , Locke , taking up the challenge , demanded that the exercise of this power , although it was derived from the ultimate and unified source of all power the people remain divided by virtue of a fundamental decision . |
| 26 | Freud 's theory was taken up by the French structuralist , Claude who developed it into a cultural determinist theory , which said that er , animals commit incest , human beings do n't . |
| 27 | Jazzbeaux made a point with the fingers of her left hand , and jabbed it into the old woman 's throat , twice . |
| 28 | The fact that Paul McCartney and Mick Jagger ( Bryan Ferry could n't come because he had a cold ) were at my d'Offay Gallery opening last year raised it into a social event , so much so that Robin Vousden said , ‘ We have n't had an opening like this since Andy Warhol ’ . |
| 29 | He pulled the horse round to face eastwards , then spurred it into the tall field of rye . |
| 30 | And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk . |