Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups .
2 In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups .
3 Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles .
4 So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in .
5 A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . "
6 I went back to Desmond and got myself into more trouble because as soon as I got out I wanted money .
7 ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess .
8 But then I realised you had joined the queue of dolour — I take it from your sparkling eyes that Lucy 's dropped her drawers and flung herself into sapphic bliss ? ’
9 We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed .
10 I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing .
11 Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster .
12 Then he opened the cage , took out the part ( which now looked slightly different ) and dropped it into another bin .
13 After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve .
14 Ivy grew around the columns left between doorways and windows , and turned them into foliated columns .
15 Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel .
16 As the more doggedly political of the two , Reid in particular despised Richard Branson as an ‘ entrepreneur hippie ’ who had sold out everything that was exciting and subversive about the Sixties and turned it into big business .
17 Military engineers would have worked out this information , and fed it into each missile , many months before .
18 Thomas Cook himself , whose name was to become a by-word for organised tourism in the next twenty-five years , had begun his career arranging such outings and developed it into big business in 1851 .
19 Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth .
20 The girl was dishevelled , her hair a mess , but she only laughed as he caught her and pulled her into another room .
21 She stopped and looked full face into the mirror , as if , among the distorted outlines of the bar she was standing in as it stretched far into the mirror-room that swallowed it up and pulled it into strange shapes , she was looking for something not apparent in the real room .
22 Near the waterline , the rushing waters have polished the schist to gunmetal , and carved it into fantastic flutes and chambers .
23 So you and your family hatched a plot whereby you flirted with her and turned her stupid , innocent head ; where you pawed her and manoeuvred her into private corners until she did n't know what was happening to her !
24 Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world .
25 It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling .
26 I was explaining this to your door porters when a most helpful youngster kindly took me in his charge and escorted me into this room . ’
27 At the Westminster election of 1698 , for example , 300 horsemen who were in the service of the Court Whigs , James Vernon and Charles Montagu , charged at their opponents in Tothill fields , and cudgelled them into nearby ditches .
28 He brought the dollars back to Jamaica and converted them into Jamaican dollars at the black market rate .
29 ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew .
30 The woman escaped and ran to a motorist after her assailant grabbed her and dragged her into private gardens .
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