Example sentences of "[verb] them into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 2 | Modernization eventually takes away children 's ability to earn and turns them into a cost as they need education to earn as adults . |
| 3 | Pot up one or two strawberry plants for a special treat : bring them into a cool greenhouse or conservatory , watering sparingly . |
| 4 | When the entire pile had been transferred , she bunched the needles together with her hands and alternately stroked and beat them with her karaso , knitting them into a kind of rudimentary bale . |
| 5 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 6 | He led them into a room overlooking an attractive courtyard , with a paved area surrounded by shrubs . |
| 7 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 8 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 11 | At last , a functioning airlock admitted them into a section where a breathable atmosphere survived , and warmth . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | These criticisms were ignored ( although delivered by persons of world-wide reputation such as Carl Sauer ) , received a hostile and defensive reaction , or were absorbed by transforming them into a technical issue — rather than facing them as a social and political one . |
| 14 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 15 | Just helping them into a chair can cause quite a lot of bruising . |
| 16 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 17 | Squatting down , he picked up the other five squirming bodies and stuffed them into a cloth sack . |
| 18 | She shuddered , then plucked some typed sheets of paper from the small table under the window and stuffed them into a folder . |
| 19 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 20 | Whereas in management I take the raw clay of inexperience , then shape and mould it into a team of teapots , Vic had an old-fashioned approach , plucking players with natural ability and building them into a cohesive unit but where no player 's unique , individual flair was stifled . |
| 21 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 22 | Gather together favourite recipes , make them into a booklet and sell for funds . |
| 23 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
| 24 | From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner . |
| 25 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 26 | I looked at what all those other glamour pusses produced and I thought , Edna , you can knock them into a cocked hat . |
| 27 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
| 28 | After playing through each of these examples individually , combine them into a 12 bar sequence and use different double stops for each chord on each successive chorus . |
| 29 | Religion keeps people in an infantile state , but by drawing them into a mass delusion , it succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis . |
| 30 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |