Example sentences of "and [vb base] [pers pn] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 2 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 3 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 4 | Buy about 1 ½ to 2 lb. of a good lean cut of beef — topside is perhaps the best — and cut it into small steaks each weighing about 3 to 4 oz . |
| 5 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 6 | It was my joy to find old Chinese stories and transcribe them into dramatic radio productions such as ‘ The Good Luck Horse ’ , ‘ The Luck of Shao Nien ’ , ‘ The Poet and the Peony ’ and many others . |
| 7 | We 've flavoured our truffles with Grand Marnier , but for a change try rum , brandy or the almond liqueur Amaretto di Saronno and shape them into small logs or disc shapes . |
| 8 | Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds . |
| 9 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 10 | It was not until 1880 that elementary education became compulsory and the main drive behind the legislation , according to Landes , was not so much the desire to instruct and educate but rather ‘ to discipline a growing mass of disaffected proletarians and integrate them into British society . |
| 11 | But you could fax yourself a copy of your signature or letterhead , save the incoming fax to disk , and incorporate it into outgoing faxes without too much hassle . |
| 12 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |
| 13 | In some instances local authorities have approached housing associations suggesting that the problem might be remedied if an association were to buy the properties and convert them into assured tenancies or into shared ownership . |
| 14 | They are able to take in chemicals and convert them into usable energy and to synthesize all the components of the cell during growth that eventually leads to cell multiplication . |
| 15 | His main hobby is to take derelict old buildings and convert them into habitable homes that are monuments to the Conran design credo . |
| 16 | You can also use the program 's Optical Character Recognition facilities to read an incoming fax and convert it into editable text . |
| 17 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 18 | She prided herself on her ability to sift through the most innocent conversations and turn them into major scandals . |
| 19 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 20 | I was shocked and saddened by Joan Hamer ; saddened that a woman should wish to remove women 's choices and turn them into second-class citizens ; shocked that she 's so young yet so old-fashioned . |
| 21 | Unlike J S Bach ( arguably his greatest predecessor ) , whose music sprang from a single , overriding impulse — his deep religious beliefs — Mozart was able to take the common musical currency of his day , sacred or secular — opera , symphony , concerto , Mass , string quartet , sonata — and turn it into pure gold . |
| 22 | After reassessing the situation , however , the Brigade Commander decided to pull back the battlegroup and move it into temporary hides . |
| 23 | ‘ Bind his hands and feet , and cast him into outer darkness . ’ ’ |
| 24 | I take that multiplier and divide it into separate periods of one , three and twelve respectively . |
| 25 | It did not take long for forces from the south to march upon the rebels and throw them into abject retreat . |
| 26 | Dwarves mine for precious metals and work them into beautiful ornaments and jewellery . |