Example sentences of "[vb past] [noun] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ports , such as Harfleur , at the mouth of the Seine , could develop ship-building facilities , and the control of the lower Seine effectively made Rouen into a sea port and a shipyard . |
| 2 | Nutty let out a genuine snort of rage , nudged Midnight with her heels and rode Antony into a large patch of thistles , towing the Badminton mare with her . |
| 3 | With the help of friends , Seth lured Osiris into a coffin-like box . |
| 4 | Having gently and efficiently helped Luce into a loose cotton nightdress , the housekeeper was just tucking in the light counterpane when another knock heralded the doctor . |
| 5 | Mr Crosby wanted to take them back on the pitch but was prevented from doing so by police , who had acted quickly to prevent a pitch invasion when Byrne headed Sunderland into a 35th-minute lead . |
| 6 | And ironically enough , it was the iron deposits that changed Corby into a red brick town and one of the chief industrial centres of the East Midlands . |
| 7 | Shastri had gone on , barely noticed , to 50 , when Gooch 's gentle swingers drew Manjrekar into a loose cut and Jack Russell took the catch . |
| 8 | A far-sighted strategist and tough manager who built CCF into a top-notch , medium-sized retail- and merchant-banking outfit , Mr Pébereau doubled its capital and trebled its profits . |
| 9 | She cracked eggs into a frying pan and stood over them while they cooked , wincing as hot fat spat at her from the pan . |
| 10 | The years in Lubyanka prison in Moscow transformed Wallenberg into a hostage of the Cold War , and then into one of the many errors of the Stalinist period whose truth became too ghastly to reveal . |
| 11 | It started almost 70 years ago in 1923 when John Moores sank £50 into a part-time football-pools venture . |
| 12 | He got his brother to look after the bar for an hour or so , bundled Maidstone into a taxi driven by a friend of his and set off for Maidstone 's apartment in the Vomero . |
| 13 | It was not easy to grow up under the shadow is over whelming father as he lashed Iran into a nation , Like almost everyone else in Iran , the Crown Prince was very much afraid of him . |
| 14 | He was crying with delight , as he often did in anticipation , when his engine started to cough , and he sailed slap into a rocky cascade . |
| 15 | And , by the way , he did have this job in Italy , but if it was in the slightest degree inconvenient to join them in the villa , he 'd book into a cheap little pensione by the railway station in Siena . |
| 16 | Charles then dropped incense into a smoldering urn in a traditional Korean ceremony . |
| 17 | At the end , to the north side , the policeman led Duncan into a small suite of offices . |
| 18 | Belated or not , the publication of the book led Williams into a collaboration with a group of local educators and teachers whose views on education , … ‘ the uplift of the people , the progress of the Teacher ’ , were very much in line with those of Williams . |
| 19 | So her daughter made haste and turned Vasilissa into a needle once more , and stuck her into the birch-broom . |
| 20 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made , er that sort of thing was taken of , since the takeover of the company , that has n't happened to the same extent so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 21 | In the old days when there was a possibility of of erm ad hoc payments made er that sort of thing was taken care of , since the takeover of the company that has n't happened to the same extent , so there 's a very strong feeling with the older pay er pensioners that they paid money into a pension scheme which now shows a surplus , but other people are benefiting from it . |
| 22 | In his study , Adam , wearing a dinner jacket , poured whisky into a cut-glass tumbler and confronted his brother . |
| 23 | Juliet poured milk into a saucepan . |
| 24 | The mushrooming of aid budgets in the 1970s turned aid into a fairly important source of business for some small and medium-sized companies in Europe and elsewhere , indicated by the formation of pressure groups in many European Community ( EC ) countries to ensure that an increased proportion of national aid budgets ended up in the hands of that country 's exporters . |
| 25 | Put strained liquid , sour cream , half coriander and grated Edam into a food processor or blender and whizz until smooth . |
| 26 | His leadership has been criticized in a number of particulars : the timing of the movement 's creation ( too early or too late ) ; the adoption of anti-communism , which had short-term benefits but turned Gaullism into a right-wing preserve ; the systematic hostility to parliament and refusal to negotiate with the parties ; the tactical mistake of refusing apparentements in June 1951 . |
| 27 | One suspects that this may have been due to a sense of betrayal , when Duke Philip of Burgundy 's change of policy in the mid 1430s turned Flanders into a hostile country instead of an ally , and partly to the closeness of past commercial ties , when the wool trade had linked the two lands in any uneasy partnership . |
| 28 | To celebrate , Sun Microsystems staff moved all the furniture out of his office , fixed it up like a Burger King stand , poured Scott into a Burger King uniform and had him handing out his favourite food . |
| 29 | When they reached a gap he drew her through it towards the parking area , and there the sight of Doreen standing before the house threw Lucy into a state of gloomy depression . |
| 30 | Gradually the untreated smoke and grime turned Nordhausen into a dirty city , with dirty people , all with little to do except work and drink and then go back to work . |