Example sentences of "[verb] them into an " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 2 | Perhaps these are symptoms of the greater concreteness of Lawrence 's description : he makes his nouns , adjectives , verbs and adverbs work for him without weaving them into an abstract web of relationships . |
| 3 | Stage 4 : Care planning — Negotiating the most appropriate ways of achieving the objectives identified by the assessment of need and incorporating them into an individual care plan . |
| 4 | Use a sharp scraper to lift off deposits and ladle them into an empty bucket for disposal . |
| 5 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 6 | They grow up unbalanced , and need only minor frustrations or the stimulus of pornography to tip them into an orgy of violence against women and girls . |
| 7 | As I clambered into the boat , moored near her big yacht , Lucy took the bottles of beer and Coca-Cola and put them into an open net bag which she lowered over the side , tying the net with a long rope to a hook on the gunwale . |
| 8 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 9 | He clipped the sheets together and put them into an envelope . |
| 10 | In the ‘ we-reap-as-we-sow ’ category this week there are reports by Computer Reseller News that WordPerfect is now thinking about dusting off its long-standing complaints against Microsoft Corp and turning them into an anti-trust action if the US Federal Trade Commission does n't hop to and litigate . |
| 11 | The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist 's waiting-room . |
| 12 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 13 | The slightest suspicion of trouble and we run them into An Dap so fast their yellow feet do n't touch the ground . " |
| 14 | But be warned that some species react badly to a change of water chemistry , and a ‘ home quarantine tank in which the fish may be further conditioned and observed before releasing them into an established aquarium , is an asset . |
| 15 | But even if they did not , the style demanded players of exceptional calibre — who were becoming increasingly rare — and a manager capable of moulding them into an effective outfit ; in this no one measured up to Chapman . |
| 16 | Having finished writing his answers , Uncle Albert popped them into an envelope . |
| 17 | ‘ Management should deliberately endeavour to build these effective groups , linking them into an overall organisation by means of people who hold overlapping group membership . ' |
| 18 | Back inside the house he gathered them into an oversized bunch and headed for the kitchen , leaving a trail of fallen petals in his wake . |
| 19 | Romero had in mind a much more ambitious script in which the zombies have more or less taken over , except in an island enclave where soldiers have trained them into an army and scientists are devising ways of using them as slaves . |
| 20 | It 's also worth noting that if leather corals are disturbed , especially by introducing them into an unfamiliar aquarium , the polyps will retract and it may take several days for them to reopen . |
| 21 | Fish are very demanding for the draughtsman because one can not put them into an attractive or anthropomorphic pose ; what can sometimes be done is to show the scenery where the fish was caught . |
| 22 | He returned shortly and ushered them into an airy office , overlooking the Grand Union Canal . |
| 23 | After it is released from the cell , interferon becomes attached to neighbouring cells and converts them into an ‘ anti-viral state ’ in which the multiplication of viruses is strongly inhibited . |
| 24 | A digital television immediately decodes the incoming sound and picture signals and converts them into an 8-bit digital code . |
| 25 | The better quality of Danby and the other famous names of the Bristol School take them into an even higher price range . |
| 26 | The positive approach of Comte was developed by Emile Durkheim who adopted Comte 's empirical and rationalist methods and fashioned them into an approach which provides a major foundation for the study of sociology today . |
| 27 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 28 | But while it is easy working out how many bedrooms and bathrooms you want , arranging them into an attractive plan that suits your site is another matter entirely . |