Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv] into a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Now employing two people , this is the only one-stop bike shop in the area and has been built up into a thriving business as people have become more aware of the need for a healthy lifestyle .
2 Rostov saw that his hair had been drawn back into a neat queue which had been tied with ribbon then folded decoratively forward across the top of his head .
3 After such endorsements from a man who , despite being a migrant from the Mid-West has been transformed instinctively into a prime example of Homo Pacificus , it would have been a foolish and almost unpatriotic American who professed otherwise .
4 This was something that Picasso had also conveyed in the necks of the Horta figures , where the area between the projecting tendons appears to have been cut back into a deep recess .
5 Epidermal cells have been thrown up into a small mound at the site of closure .
6 ‘ There were coal-effect gas fires in the living-rooms ; the bathroom was covered in cork tiles , floor to ceiling ; the kitchen had been knocked through into a disastrous tunnel lined with Melamine ; and the roof had been re-tiled in the most revolting red pantiles instead of black slates .
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