Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] into [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Ivy grew around the columns left between doorways and windows , and turned them into foliated columns . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Near the waterline , the rushing waters have polished the schist to gunmetal , and carved it into fantastic flutes and chambers . |
| 12 | 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 ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He brought the dollars back to Jamaica and converted them into Jamaican dollars at the black market rate . |
| 15 | ‘ When I struck the bream tore off downstream and dragged me into some weeds but I eventually got it to the bankside , ’ said Matthew . |
| 16 | The woman escaped and ran to a motorist after her assailant grabbed her and dragged her into private gardens . |
| 17 | It was nerve-racking , having him watch her as she slid her feet out of bed , and pushed them into soft mules . |