Example sentences of "and [vb past] them into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 2 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 3 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 4 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 5 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 6 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 7 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 8 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 9 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |
| 10 | She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect . |
| 11 | Men and women carried their own children on their shoulders to the church and threw them into a common pit . |
| 12 | During the post-war period Hayek has drawn out some of the assumptions underpinning his economic theorizing and developed them into a general theory of society . |
| 13 | Their campaigns for legal enforcement were backed by a powerful language which identified whole new technologies of sex and forged them into a popular crusade for reform . |
| 14 | They carried the bodies in silence across the room and dumped them into the wooden container . |
| 15 | They walked out of the warm lobby and gasped , both of them , as the December wind whipped down the street and slapped them into the open air . |
| 16 | Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , . |
| 17 | With help from a tutor I finally put them together and fitted them into the cubic box I was given . |
| 18 | He returned shortly and ushered them into an airy office , overlooking the Grand Union Canal . |
| 19 | He got the ends of the belt around his hands and wound them into a good , tight grip . |
| 20 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 21 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 22 | Then there was a heavy pause , like the moment a ball must feel between the time it 's thrown up and the time it starts to come down , and something picked up all three of them and slid them into a struggling heap . |
| 23 | Vitor removed his sunglasses , folded them and slid them into the top pocket of his jacket . |