Example sentences of "[vb pp] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The next moment she jumped up , almost angrily , as though she had been trapped into a softness that she did not mean . |
| 2 | One therefore gets trapped into a situation where it appears much easier to carry on in the business than to divest , or move out . |
| 3 | We had rather a lot to drink , and before I knew where I was I found myself being hustled into a broom closet by three men . |
| 4 | Turn a garden shed into a conservatory … |
| 5 | David Hindmarch , of Deans Square , Topcliffe , near Thirsk was promised a prize of some kitchen units which he intended to use as part of a scheme to turn a garden shed into a workshop for his disabled wife . |
| 6 | A story-board is a script presented as a series of drawings , so that the composition of each shot , and the flow of images from shot to shot , can be designed into a movie from the earliest stages . |
| 7 | Where quality is designed into a product , the benefits can be long product life , absence of faults and subsequent breakdowns , reliability , increase in value and many others . |
| 8 | Alexei 's right hand clenched into a fist and Rostov tensed to receive the attack which he was sure he had provoked . |
| 9 | ‘ Only it 's always nice to have a biscuit with coffee , is n't it , or a choc- ’ Mrs Mentiply broke o Her face slowly compressed into a frown . |
| 10 | It makes an intelligent compendium of this mysterious people 's history and culture , compressed into a serpentine and bewildering suite of quite small rooms and exhibits : their furniture , their costumes , the trades they have practised , the things they have manufactured , their art and religious objects , and so on . |
| 11 | All the matter in the star will be compressed into a region of zero volume , so the density of matter and the curvature of space-time become infinite . |
| 12 | All is compressed into a chapter heading illustration that shares the space available with the title , ‘ Start with Soup ’ . |
| 13 | He watched the first squall race towards them , the rain compressed into a curtain above the white line of wave caps . |
| 14 | The Philistines were a people organised into a federation of five city states , who ruled over parts of Palestine from about BC 1175 . |
| 15 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 16 | Meyer 's analysis ( see figure 4.1 ) produces in diagram form a representation of the information in a passage organised into a hierarchy , which would enable a teacher systematically to examine comprehension and the effects of different types of text manipulation . |
| 17 | Postgraduate activity is organised into a Graduate School , which acts as a focus for research student affairs . |
| 18 | The 200-plus production workforce is organised into a shift pattern for the 24-hours-a-day , seven days a week operation . |
| 19 | Perhaps inevitably , with such wealth and diversity an oligarchy of local tradesman emerged , organised into a merchant guild . |
| 20 | Soaring like a sharp wedge , its sandstone rocks have defied the storms of ages but have been split and shattered into a succession of strange pinnacles requiring the skill of rockclimbers to surmount although , by trial and error , walkers can make progress by avoiding the crest of the ridge in places of difficulty , using stony gullies for descent and re-ascent . |
| 21 | In time , the shape of the top of this was modified into a collar with slits in it . |
| 22 | The more structured the source of words , the more likely it is that the terms in the source will already be in a standard form ready for lifting wholesale and little modified into a thesaurus . |
| 23 | If you 've ever drilled into a water pipe or found it difficult to get a good fixing on a wall , you need a Rapitest Wire , Pipe & Stud Detector . |
| 24 | Well into her stride now , she glanced over towards the mystery man , wondering if that expressionless façade had finally dissolved into a smile . |
| 25 | A late amphora by the Kleophrades Painter carries further Euthymides 's integration of ‘ picture ’ and ‘ pot-decoration ’ : the frame dissolved into a strip of pattern under the two big figures on each side . |
| 26 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
| 27 | The aging houngan 's grim facade held for a moment , then dissolved into a spray of laughter lines as he smiled . |
| 28 | This is where I get nervous because I know I 've come into a word I know I ca n't pronounce . |
| 29 | Of the promisingly-titled Bad Lord Byron ( 1949 ) , for example , Box remarked that ‘ nothing was artificially concocted , ’ but the film is also deathly dull to watch as various figures from Byron 's life come into a court room to debate whether he was a great poet or a great cad . |
| 30 | Those who have come into a home meeting or into the public celebrations have met God in an unmistakable way . |