Example sentences of "[pers pn] into [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'm going ask you to do an exercise now and split you into groups of three . |
2 | In the office which looked like all the others with its geometric desk and wire baskets and identical questions , he had suddenly created a different version of himself , with words borrowed from newspapers , half-heard conversations , and fitted them into structures of plausibility ; he 'd discovered that if he spoke fast enough no one noticed the inconsistencies . |
3 | The work of our teachers will fall in the Coaching , Teaching & Instructing group , who have to identify over 300 job titles and group them into headings before setting the standards for each job through analysing the Tasks , Skills and Knowledge involved . |
4 | Hardly surprising , then , that with this Spirit of their Master making them into sons of God , they should be conscious of the closest ties with other members of the family . |
5 | A further sorting amongst the articles on the tray put them into sets of beads , reels , rods and wheels . |
6 | His hands covered his face until he brought them into fists in front of him , in the way he often did , then he opened his arms along the length of me ; his palms warm , close , without touching , cruised first my shoulder , then the weight of my breast under my hair , my hip , my stomach . |
7 | But travellers in Latin America in the early twentieth century found there stations which led them into rhapsodies of praise . |
8 | While this may mean working only one day less per week , that one day may provide a vital breathing space for women like Alice Perkins , working in demanding , pressurised jobs , and it may just allow them to remain on a career path that will take them into positions of power . |
9 | Implicitly , it may be argued , this turned them into collaborators with the Japanese ; although the latter , for their part , were content to maintain the superstructure of French administration even if , as events were subsequently to show , the realities of power were theirs . |
10 | Divide them into groups of the same number ( pencilling them out lightly or placing a dot beside them as you do so ) . |
11 | If you think about people in very large numbers , you can divide them into groups in a variety of ways : age groups , different sexes , marital status , numbers of children , where they live , what they do , how much they earn , how many GCSEs they have , whether they own a car or a colour TV , the colour of their skin … the list is , in practice , endless , especially if you add in ( say ) readers of Punch , or buyers of Beecham 's pills . |
12 | Recent works isolate and enlarge single objects such as a spoon , a fingernail , and the bubble from a carpenter 's level , transforming them into meditations on space , form and texture . |
13 | Guard duty over the two women was much lighter than tree-felling in the steamy forest or sawing up the timbers into six-feet lengths , then splitting them into staves for the stockade , the master 's house , and the other habitations they were erecting in the settlement . |
14 | Either the will had failed , so the trust clause was being enlisted to salvage civil-law dispositions , transforming them into trusts of which the intestate heir was trustee ; or individual legacies had failed on formal grounds , and the intention was to try and salvage them as trusts of which the testamentary heir was trustee . |
15 | In theory , there are three months of leadership contest in which to explore these and other interesting questions ; and one would hope that , even with a new leader , the party would still be able to discuss fundamental issues without turning them into questions of loyalty . |
16 | Presenting the average man or woman in the street with medical knowledge does not turn them into cases of Munchausen 's syndrome : if it did , the problem would be far more widespread . |
17 | There was also a reluctance to attempt the transformation of the unions which would have been required to turn them into instruments of workers ' control , since this would clearly have introduced an element of responsibility which was foreign to the previous practice of trade unionism , and would have meant taking on board the awkward problem of reconciling , within a reconstructed union framework , the interests of workers in the given nationalised industry and the interests of working people as a whole , as regards the running of that industry . |
18 | EIiot 's intense sympathy with the fishermen of the Massachusetts coast transforms them into figures of endurance , secular saints , whose course is one of earthly failure which the toughest faith transforms into gain . |
19 | All the team here has turned them into citizens of the world with dignity , honour and a great future . |
20 | He mentioned some plan they had of buying old houses and converting them into flats for sale . |
21 | Then for hours we gutted the living , flapping fish and threw them into baskets to be carried below and put on ice . |
22 | Toby Sykes putts boldly and hits a mighty tee shot but too many over-delicate chips , two of them into bunkers at close range . |
23 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
24 | You can get the best of both worlds by declaring these values in DATA statements at the beginning or end of your program and READing them into variables in your program . |
25 | The controversial hypnotist also transports volunteers to the hot Mediterranean and cold Arctic and entices them into conversations with men from Mars . |
26 | De Valois , Ashton and MacMillan have studied paintings and drawings by English artists and/or the words of such great playwrights as Shakespeare and translated them into gestures for which the dancer 's whole body has to play a part . |
27 | A massive building society advertising campaign earlier this year has lured them into rates of 10% and 11% but since then the cost of borrowing has plunged , and these home owners have come unstuck . |
28 | Rather than try to disentangle the scores of relationships examined between animals and plants in this area by putting them into categories of predation or dispersal mechanism , an attempt is made to look at the relationships of particular taxonomic groups of animals and their food plants . |
29 | His Ordo was primarily concerned with the forces of Chaos from the warp which could possess vulnerable individuals of psychic talent , twisting them into tools of insanity . |
30 | Avatars , made out of their own perverse essence , would hook into the spirits of vulnerable psykers , into greedy , heedlessly ambitious mortals , and would offer those dupes a little power — playing them like living puppets on intangible strings — before twisting them into tools of evil and eventually consuming them . |