Example sentences of "[been] [verb] into [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when eventually the colobus had been ripped into pieces , and the forest went quiet , he pointed out the way the chimps shared their spoils with their nearest relatives . |
| 2 | From everything being simple and light-hearted , she had been plunged into shoals of deception , way out of her depth . |
| 3 | But the guerrilla bands have been broken into fragments by the fighting . |
| 4 | Some would have been formed into bomb-ketches and armed with mortars and howitzers . |
| 5 | Open Access , previously a massive single integrated package has recently been stripped into modules along the same lines . |
| 6 | Once foci have been grouped into facets , they must be ordered . |
| 7 | Light filtered through dimly from various shafts and , here and there , bounced off big mirrors that had been mortared into angles of the passage . |
| 8 | Erm that again had been rolled into balls and then he 'd have erm about a dozen sticks which which held these balls and stuck them in then after he 'd he 'd erm er thatched one erm length , one row , he 'd pull the string over and attach it to the the thick s er rope that was er going over the stack . |
| 9 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 10 | These ideas have been built into curricula and materials . |
| 11 | Due to the process of evolution and survival of the fittest , a good memory and a strong fear for physical danger has been built into horses and reinforced for at least fifty million years . |
| 12 | Early last year the Ministry of Defence announced new measures to discourage bullying after young recruits revealed that they had been pushed into rivers , pelted with stones , and gassed with CS gas . |
| 13 | Eventually , after many cycles , the concentration of oligonucleotide primers falls because they have all been incorporated into products of the reaction . |
| 14 | Margaret 's house was the same as Maura 's except it had been made into flats . |
| 15 | That 's all been altered , i they 've all been made into shops and spoilt the you know , the and there used to be old 's , the shoe shop and Mr. 's watch shop and Mrs 's pastry shop . |
| 16 | When they bought it , the upstairs had been made into bedsits . |
| 17 | Interesting , too , that many of his books have been made into films , although Greene never liked the films . ’ |
| 18 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 19 | A remarkable hydraulic lift still plies the cliff face between the high promenade and the pier , and there are some imposing villas , but the grandest of grand hotels has been turned into flats . |
| 20 | He could see from the number of bells beside each door that they 'd nearly all been turned into flats now , or dentists ' surgeries , and some were in urgent need of renovation , but they still retained some of their former grandeur , or was it pretension ? |
| 21 | That house might well have been here that big house just there across th in there which has now been turned into flats . |
| 22 | The ‘ Celtic belt ’ was heavily forested in those days , as was Italy in pre-Roman times , and two large , rococo-ceilinged halls in the Palazzo Grassi have been turned into forests . |
| 23 | So as to be like his fellows who had been turned into slaves , he slaved tirelessly himself . |
| 24 | The result , says André Sacau of Orcofi , a French holding company with stakes in a range of luxury-goods makers , is that ‘ buyers of luxury brands have been turned into bargain-hunters . ’ |
| 25 | With the others I felt … on the same side as them because they were saying that they had been tortured themselves in a way , had been turned into animals , tools . |
| 26 | My searches this month have followed exactly the same lines as those of last month ; that is to say , I have been venturing into areas possessing no known or recorded activity . |
| 27 | Since Renaissance times , clear glass has been fashioned into prisms , mirrors and lenses that diffract and focus visible light . |
| 28 | Mr Hill : Yes , now , during the war most men between 19 and 38 got called up and they went into the army , navy , airforce and fire-brigade or they had been drafted into factories to make tanks , aeroplanes and munitions so some things , areas , like farming were very short of labour . |
| 29 | These fan deposits extend into the mountain valleys and have been dissected into terraces by occasional floods emerging from those valleys . |
| 30 | Once coins have been classified into groups , the next stage is to determine the exact date of a coin 's manufacture or the precise location of its mint . |