Example sentences of "[vb past] it into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 2 | I kept the piece of paper and , after I returned home and thought more about the episode , I transformed it into a poem . |
| 3 | The ‘ industrialization ’ of the press ( see also pp. 67 — 78 ) transformed it into a commodity and an industrial product . |
| 4 | That this ‘ fourth channel ’ was the last available national channel transformed it into a very valuable national resource and , consequently , there has always been some concern lest one make a terrible ‘ mistake ’ in allocating it to some unworthy body or organization . |
| 5 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 6 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 7 | The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions . |
| 8 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he lost control of the truck within seconds and crashed it into a tree . |
| 10 | The court heard Pinnell , now of Halsway Cottage , Crowcombe , Taunton , Somerset , had taken the car on several occasions but on the last one crashed it into a dry stone wall . |
| 11 | Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch . |
| 12 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 13 | ‘ When we played my school a bloke managed to wangle some dry ice from work and he dropped it into a bucketful of warm water . |
| 14 | After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin . |
| 15 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 16 | Instead of dragging it back into a tight knot in the nape of her neck , she twisted it into a more becoming coil , leaving the tendrils which had been twisted in the curl rags , to curl prettily round her face . |
| 17 | She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed . |
| 18 | With a grimace she grabbed her hair and twisted it into a knot on top of her head . |
| 19 | She opened the tin of sweetcorn and stirred it into a pan with the clams and the cream . |
| 20 | They ‘ hot-wired ’ a prison van and repeatedly rammed it into a security gate . |
| 21 | Donald McCulloch grinned with pleasure and then turned it into a look of complicity for the younger men . |
| 22 | He never lost sight of the religious nature of his subject , and never turned it into a boring desert . |
| 23 | They might have had one if Bill could have explained his idea because that 's exactly what Harry Nilsson later did with the song , turned it into a big ballad and scored a number one hit with it . |
| 24 | Deracinated urban youths have built upon this uncompromisingly physical attitude to games and turned it into a different , more aggressive , and organized subculture . |
| 25 | An eerie , green glow in the sky behind the tower turned it into a ghostly galleon on a leaden sea ; Claro itself , a crazy house , leaning this way and bulging that . |
| 26 | The relentlessly lumbering movie machine has taken a truly extreme , hallucinatory book about oppression and obedience , juiced it up with some patronising love interest and turned it into a standard ‘ women 's issues ’ film : sanitised , regulated and pointless . |
| 27 | Although it has none of your words on it , nor no other mark of you , I have by slow degrees and probably much self-deception turned it into a love letter from you . |
| 28 | Maybe he thinks we might have improved it a little , even turned it into a bestseller . |
| 29 | Mendes rescued a Chichester revival of London Assurance at short notice and turned it into a hit . |
| 30 | They employed hundreds of workers who had previously known lace-making as a domestic craft , and turned it into a mass-production industry which brought an end to cottage lace-making here and in the villages of Hertfordshire and Buckinghamshire . |