Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 2 | ‘ It 's a good thing we 've booked you into this place , ’ Michael continued . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've pressured you into this the whole way , have n't I ? ’ he murmured . |
| 4 | The dragonfish has expanded them into spectacular defensive weapons , each ray barbed with poison . |
| 5 | It turned out that she did n't realise they were down , but thinks she must have pushed them into that position when dropping the ribber . |
| 6 | Although the process has not turned them into ordinary men they have , in some degree , become betwixt and between . |
| 7 | She 'd have turned me into another of her tasteless folk stories , I expect ! |
| 8 | I could almost feel sorry for her , she had gotten herself into such a false position . |
| 9 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 10 | Announcing his first programme yesterday , he spoke of the ‘ awesome responsibility ’ of following Joan Knight who has turned it into one of the most successful theatres in the country with an average audience of more than 7,000 people for each production . |
| 11 | You know you can do it you can do the fractions and once you 've turned it into twelfths you can do it . |
| 12 | Oh , sure , it 'll take long enough to complete , but another couple of levels — not difficult to program once the initial stage has been coded — would have pushed it into another league entirely . |
| 13 | This happened first in Germany , when Georg Siemens , the founder and head of Germany 's premier bank , Deutsche Bank , saved the electrical apparatus company his cousin Werner had founded after Werner 's sons and heirs had mismanaged it into near collapse . |
| 14 | This is where my parents and my girlfriend Mandy were really magnificent ; without them I would not have made it into 1986 . |
| 15 | The racial success story turns those who have made it into narrative role models for the next generation , who are pledged to follow in their footsteps ‘ one day ’ . |
| 16 | Randy , as you can see , has finally made it into this issue . |
| 17 | Erm and then once they 've organized themselves into these associations their first er job should be , or was perhaps , I 'm not he 's talking about what has actually happened I suppose |
| 18 | Two world wars had drawn them into close and cooperative contact with government . |
| 19 | Yet it has often happened that attacks on such alternative groups , by established opinion , have shifted them into conscious opposition as distinct from conscious dissent or the offering of a conscious alternative . |
| 20 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 21 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 22 | Got them into this place . |
| 23 | He 'd got himself into enough trouble already by doing too much of that . |
| 24 | With a sinking feeling she knew what he meant — he had no intention of telling his brother how he 'd got himself into this situation . |
| 25 | What about you Adrian now , have we got you into any , any particular situation , are you going to follow dad 's footsteps do you think ? |
| 26 | Isabel Marshall had been added at the age of fourteen , when her gawky , bony clumsiness had suddenly transformed itself into dazzling beauty , and Clara , her especial friend , was added a year later when her breasts grew . |
| 27 | When the door had opened to admit her , the waiting tension still gnawing at him had finally transformed itself into swift action , and he 'd been too busy quitting the bed and judging the right moment to attack to identify the intruder . |
| 28 | There was an analogy here with Darwinian biology , where the species at a given time were real interbreeding units though they were all supposed to be descendants of one primitive form ; similarly the chemical elements were supposed by many to be all ‘ descendants ’ or polymers of hydrogen or helium , and therefore not truly simple bodies , although in ordinary chemical processes they could not be transformed one into another . |
| 29 | Ratio scales , to remind ourselves , contain all the properties of ordinal and interval scales with the additional one that they can be transformed one into another . |
| 30 | How had my mother transformed herself into this dower-house chatelaine ? |