Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 2 | Pot up one or two strawberry plants for a special treat : bring them into a cool greenhouse or conservatory , watering sparingly . |
| 3 | ‘ Do please change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter , ’ said Mrs Hampton during lunch on the day of his arrival . |
| 4 | Gather together favourite recipes , make them into a booklet and sell for funds . |
| 5 | Not necessarily — the expert fishkeeper could design a system that would take the best of all possible filtration methods and effectively combine them into a very good system . |
| 6 | After playing through each of these examples individually , combine them into a 12 bar sequence and use different double stops for each chord on each successive chorus . |
| 7 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 8 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 9 | All they need to do is go up to the loft once a year and shovel them into a polythene bag ; they make excellent compost . |
| 10 | Just had a call to say , Robbo , whatever the things hanging in your loft might be , wait until the Autumn , go up with a big stick , and knock them into a carrier bag . |
| 11 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 12 | If the amount outstanding on your credit or store cards seem always to creep up rather than down ; if you put off paying the electricity bills because you have other commitments to meet ; if you are seriously thinking of accepting the offer of a ‘ consolidation ’ loan which is secured on your house to mop up all your existing credit agreements and transform them into a once a month payment , then you could be on or near the danger line . |
| 13 | But there will be those who will grab the trends and steer them into a new direction . |
| 14 | These types of light fitting are the easiest to install , as you simply plug them into a 13amp socket — provided , that is , there is a convenient socket . |
| 15 | You simply plug them into a convenient socket outlet inside the house ( protected by an RCD ) and put away once you 've finished using them . |
| 16 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |
| 17 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |
| 18 | But not any more , because you see this is how I look at it now : those kind of schools grind you into a certain way of thinking and … and somehow , unless you become very careful , you 're stuck that way for the rest of your life . |
| 19 | We transport you into a world of intrigue and illusion … clowns , if you like , murderers — we can do you ghosts and battles , on the skirmish level , heroes , villains , tormented lovers — set pieces in the poetic vein ; we can do you rapiers or rape or both , by all means , faithless wives and ravished virgins — flagrante delicto at a price , but that comes under realism for which there are special terms . |
| 20 | Basically Wegman expresses his view of the world as an absurd and irrational place by photographing Man Ray in a variety of disguises — inked-on whiskers and ears cunningly transform him into a cat , in a dress he becomes a transvestite , and in a hotel bed with Fay he becomes the envy of every red-blooded hound on the planet . |
| 21 | Then the Consultant Analyst will put the appropriate colour pellets into a beaker with an oil blend , heat it in a microwave oven , pour it into a split mould , cool it down to harden it , and slip it into a lipstick case . |
| 22 | Out with the corks of the wine , assuming you have n't done so already , and empty it into a saucepan . |
| 23 | But the important thing is that the voluntary sector must hijack the trends from the old statism to the new individualism , and steer it into a better way . |
| 24 | I am confident that KP 's substantial experience and resources can protect its unique brand values and build it into a major international brand . ’ |
| 25 | When we have a little technical problem they transform it into a big one . ’ |
| 26 | Only they would have possessed the necessary authority and material wealth at the time to take prime land — the site of a major trading warehouse — and transform it into a dog cemetery . |
| 27 | Claudius was forced to decide between giving up Britain altogether , abandoning the conquest of Caesar and the unfulfilled hopes of Augustus , or an armed invasion to secure the island and transform it into a province . |
| 28 | Brought in from Luxenbourg , it will process the slag created as a by-product of the metal smelting process and transform it into a valuable type of cement . |
| 29 | Press it into a crack in the bark on the underside of a branch , securing it if necessary , and then wait . |
| 30 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |