Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [pers pn] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 2 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
| 3 | This is a relative newcomer to the hobby , so new that nobody has slotted them into a genus yet . |
| 4 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 5 | THE 1993 British and US Open champion , Patty Sheehan , had the better of a tense battle with Canada 's Dawn Coe-Jones to win the $700,000 Standard Register Ping — a 32nd tour victory which has catapulted her into the LPGA 's Hall of Fame . |
| 6 | The University of Ulster welcomes the ‘ AS ’ proposals as a means of broadening ‘ A ’ level studies and has incorporated them into its General Entry Requirements for admission to degree and DipHE courses . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Yet you do not have to spend very long with them to appreciate how India , then as now , has turned them into what they are , how it has brutalized them and forced them to anaesthetize their own sensibilities . |
| 9 | All the team here has turned them into citizens of the world with dignity , honour and a great future . |
| 10 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 11 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 13 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 14 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 15 | Announcing his first programme yesterday , he spoke of the ‘ awesome responsibility ’ of following Joan Knight who has turned it into one of the most successful theatres in the country with an average audience of more than 7,000 people for each production . |
| 16 | She has turned you into an image of herself . |
| 17 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 18 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 19 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 20 | It was partly about fairs but mainly about Theme Parks , which is what big business has made them into in the US and what they are becoming here . |
| 21 | He has taken the off-scourings of this world , the apostle Paul said , those that were nothing , and he has made them into something . |
| 22 | Few singers have ever matched her musical intelligence or her strange , foggy timbre , and her exquisite agony has made her into something of an icon . |
| 23 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
| 24 | MIDDLESBROUGH defender Derek Whyte thanks his lucky stars that the English Premier League has licked him into shape for the toughest 90 minutes of his football life . |
| 25 | Rate-setting is a springtime routine that all local authorities must perform by April East — This year , in some places , an accumulation of past extravagance , poor accounting an uncertainty about the lawfulness of various bits of figure-shuffling has transformed it into drama . |
| 26 | The first is that he has got her into bed so easily and the second is that it seems to mean nothing to her . |
| 27 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 28 | The poll tax has been an outstanding success for the right hon. Member for Wirral , West ( Mr. Hunt ) — it has got him into the Cabinet . |
| 29 | ‘ It tells us just how big a mess the Government has got us into : a £50 billion deficit and very little sign of the promised post-election recovery . ’ |
| 30 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |