Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] [pron] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When this opening was created between two rooms , elegant display shelving , storage cupboards and stylish Victorian lace curtains were added to make it into an attractive feature |
| 2 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 3 | However , as the torchlight danced ahead she gradually lost the worst of the fears that had at first threatened to turn her into a quivering jelly . |
| 4 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 5 | Isaacs named the substance interferon , and for some years vigorous efforts were made to develop it into a practical therapeutic agent . |
| 6 | If we confine attention to the 8 samples on which at least 15 individual determinations were made , the R range narrows to 0.35–0.95% , confirming that some of these rocks were formerly sufficiently deeply buried to put them into the oil-generating window . |
| 7 | A further problem is that , although methane is an excellent fuel , it resists the changes needed to make it into a useful feedstock . |
| 8 | Huge amounts of government money should be invested to turn it into the national effort . |
| 9 | Thereafter he became a missionary of heathen Africa , wrote a seminal alchemical text called the Clavicula , and was reputed to turn himself into a red cock when occasion demanded . |
| 10 | He says : ‘ We are making more and more DCDs — Driver Controlled Deliveries — where the driver not only delivers a tanker of petrol to a filling station , but is trained to unload it into the underground storage tanks ’ This has become a necessity , as more and more petrol stations are operated by one person locked behind security windows . |
| 11 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 12 | In the past dozen years an alternative great idea has pulled them westward , as they have tried to dissolve themselves into the European Community . |
| 13 | He decided to use the letter ; the editor of his gossip column astutely elected to buy himself into the good graces of Buckingham Palace by informing their Press Secretary . |
| 14 | I was determined to make it into a lovely home . ’ |
| 15 | Perhaps I was n't the plaything of a mage , who was determined to drag me into a frightening and chaotic world of naked will , only a seriously neurotic person in need of help . |
| 16 | The clever part is that this frame can be manipulated to make it into an irregular shape as required to match the text to the graphic . |
| 17 | There is equally little doubt that at this period , when the idea of tearing out ancient roots was still strange and terrifying to most people , some kind of cataclysmic force was still required to drive them into the unknown . |
| 18 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 19 | In his Russian heartland the democrats , repeating the mistakes of their predecessors before 1917 , have failed to organise themselves into a cohesive opposition . |
| 20 | Josie reflected on how easily , with just a change of clothes and a few amateur touches , Lucy had managed to transform herself into a resurrected image of her own sister . |