Example sentences of "has [vb pp] [pron] into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 2 | THE Government has drilled itself into a well on oil jobs as it ‘ scrambles out of a hole on pit closures ’ , Alex Salmond , the Scottish National Party leader , said yesterday . |
| 3 | Comedian and writer Ben Miller has the answers , and has incorporated them into a tribute performance , Gone With Noakes ( playing at Covent Garden 's Donmar Warehouse on Dec 4–5 ) . |
| 4 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 5 | A hospital has turned itself into a charity to prevent the Health Authority closing it down . |
| 6 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 7 | The former communist daily , Berliner Zeitung , has transformed itself into a newsy , left-of-centre paper with a reputation for investigative reporting . |
| 8 | The European Patent Office has got itself into a mess over these issues because it has proceeded to patent life forms without first examining properly whether the EPC , when interpreted as it was originally intended , actually allows the patents the patent office has granted . |
| 9 | He no longer fears ridicule or criticism ; instead , his fear is that people will not act swiftly enough , that human nature has locked itself into a process of acquisitiveness and materialism , and that three hundred years of our industrial society have alienated people from the aesthetic values mankind once possessed . |
| 10 | Addressing a rally on March 9 organized by the Democratic Russia group , Yeltsin called on his fellow radicals to " declare war on the leadership of the country , which has led us into a quagmire " . |
| 11 | I 'm a second-year witch at the school , and this beastly girl called Ethel Hallow has changed me into a frog and I was — ’ |