Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your comment about him finding it difficult to live with the idea of someone being better than him forced me into a complete rethink . |
| 2 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
| 3 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 4 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 5 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 6 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 7 | Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes . |
| 8 | He turned it into a four-course meal , thus : |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He showed her into a comfortable room complete with wallscreen , soft lighting and floor cushions . |
| 11 | Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick . |
| 12 | He beckoned her into a high-ceilinged room with a marble floor covered with rush mats . |
| 13 | He pulled me into the tiny kitchen . |
| 14 | And after his successful return to management at Ipswich , he guided them into the Premier League before moving ‘ upstairs ’ at Portman Road this summer . |
| 15 | Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar . |
| 16 | He took her into a little recess aside |
| 17 | He took her into the next room , performed a little pantomime of swivelling hips and stormy eyes , then wrapped his arm around her . |
| 18 | He tossed it into a front garden , laughing like a child and neither doing nor intending damage . |
| 19 | Back inside the house he gathered them into an oversized bunch and headed for the kitchen , leaving a trail of fallen petals in his wake . |
| 20 | Morton Pitt added rooms on the south elevation in 1823 when he converted it into the ROYAL VICTORIA HOTEL . |
| 21 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 22 | An artist friend once remarked : ‘ I saw this chap make something out of an ordinary piece of wood — he fashioned it into an exquisite work of art . ’ |
| 23 | He ushered her into a dismal canteen with strip lighting , Formica-topped tables and moulded plastic stacking chairs . |
| 24 | ‘ With your colouring , you should wear that shade of green more often , ’ he told her as he ushered her into the dove-grey Daimler . |
| 25 | He ushered her into an overheated wood-panelled lobby . |
| 26 | He pushed him into an upright chair . |