Example sentences of "[verb] into a [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The closing of the railway line was regretted but the station has been made into a club and the old engine shed into a sports hall . |
| 2 | The Sierra Cosworth was chased along the A5 before it crashed into a police roadblock near Milton Keynes . |
| 3 | The soldiers race into a wasps ' nest , driving the occupants out . |
| 4 | Mr Schofield was arrested on Tuesday after walking into a police station in London . |
| 5 | It twisted into an origami boat and sailed off towards a sewer inlet . |
| 6 | ‘ That way , my young friend wo n't be turned into a zombi , and neither will anyone else for the moment . ’ |
| 7 | The idea of making her into a museum was abandoned and instead she was turned into a Boys ' Club . |
| 8 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 9 | Ruth had already decided to bring her own children to be photographed today , and then approached all her friends with young families , suggesting they might like to do the same — so it had turned into a children 's party . |
| 10 | After some uneventful voyages over the years , and at least seven previous masters , the Orynthia seemed to have turned into a hornets ' nest . |
| 11 | It may now be turned into an arts centre |
| 12 | The idea has been expanded into a Peoples Show Festival and similar exhibitions , featuring over 200 different collections of tens of thousands of items , will be held at fourteen different venues from Cheltenham to Stoke on Trent . |
| 13 | Part of the remaining walls became incorporated into a police barracks in the nineteenth century . |
| 14 | Apartments No.3 and No.4 detailed below have access from the main hall of the villa now transformed into a games room with billiard and card tables . |
| 15 | In the mid-19705 , in Great Britain , the polytechnics of Liverpool and Newcastle.upon-Tyne are offering a three.year degree course in librarianship which can be transformed into an honours degree by a fourth-year course in education , leading to dual qualification ; Leeds Polytechnic plans to follow suit , and already offers three.year. trained teachers the chance to turn their qualification into a bachelor 's degree by intensive part-time study of librarianship . |
| 16 | Never underestimate how terrified many people are when faced with the prospect of going into a solicitors ' office . |
| 17 | But he ca n't resist going on a teensy-weensy shopping spree with Marlon , which involves going into a jewellers , pretending to be gay and , to divert inquiries , sneezing copiously over an assistant who is terrified they are transmitting Aids . |
| 18 | In a widely publicised incident a few months later Ben , diagnosed as schizophrenic , climbed into a lions ' cage at London Zoo . |
| 19 | I could n't understand why I should want to leave the relative safety of the house in Fulham to walk into a hornets ' nest of horrified disapproval and rejection . |
| 20 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 21 | As the pink mists began to clear , my world turned into an out-of-focus elongated distortion , seen through yellow cellophane . |
| 22 | We have worked out how badly smokers lose out by not diverting their cigs cash into a savings plan . |
| 23 | Today Oxford Crown Court heard Walker was arrested after crashing into a police car , which blocked his path on a motorway slip road . |
| 24 | In Powys , a search for eight scouts missing on the nearby Black Mountains , was called off when they walked into a police station . |
| 25 | But the youngsters were found dead in their beds after she walked into a police station at the weekend . |
| 26 | The case was solved when Downey finally walked into a police station earlier this year and confessed to the killing . |
| 27 | A woman in her thirties has been found dead at her home after a man walked into a police station and said he wanted to talk to detectives . |
| 28 | I was flung into a police van , and Russell was also dragged in . |
| 29 | Eventually both men were bundled into a police car and driven away . |
| 30 | And in October he struck again — this time in Aylesbury , breaking into a sports club , and taking a Thames Water vehicle — for yet another joy ride . |