Example sentences of "[v-ing] [noun] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only doing unnecessary jobs , but actually creating work by transferring cooked food out of saucepans into dishes before serving it , decanting milk into a jug and margarine on to a saucer . |
| 2 | At least she had one thing to be thankful for , she consoled herself , seeing Veronica into a taxi in the Aldwych : she was in no doubt at all that Veronica would be in touch again . |
| 3 | A thin , gangling , blond guy was stalking the tables emptying ashtrays into a battered wastepaper bin and snarling at the customers . |
| 4 | As Cati left , she continued , to Sabina , who was sprinkling flour into a basin and whirling it into a dough with her fist , ‘ But you can only wait for the storming to pass … . ’ |
| 5 | She began cracking eggs into a bowl . |
| 6 | There are therefore limitations to the effectiveness of signature as a means of incorporating terms into a contract , but it is probably the most reliable method of incorporation . |
| 7 | In other words , it was characterized by the semi-automatic assembly line , organizing work into a straightforward linear flow of transformations applied to raw materials . |
| 8 | He won his first round match in the United States Open , putting Flushing Meadow into a party mood as he whipped Brazilian Jaime Oncins 6-1 , 6-2 , 6-3 . |
| 9 | Although many would now see this HCF model as pushing RE into a backwater if it is pursued on its own , it is still a highly influential view , and is likely to go on being so for some time because Agreed Syllabuses on the whole encourage it . |
| 10 | refers to cribbage , a card game in which the score is kept by inserting pegs into a board . |
| 11 | Science can now achieve extraordinary results , implanting embryos into a womb , filming the progress of the foetus , and providing details of its sex and genetic make-up . |
| 12 | He also confirmed Lewis ' findings , being able to detect seven bands on most large standing stones , and considered that these were ‘ tapping points into a spiral release of some kind of energy that moved up and down the stone , following the lunar cycle ’ . |
| 13 | The progress of molecular biology ( and its application , biotechnology ) is pushing medicine into a new age , from the pharmacologic to the molecular . |
| 14 | In a following question the SCI ( Scotland ) also admitted that in translating recommendations into a written report the point was often lost ; the discussions with the school and perhaps the LEA were the major reporting function . |
| 15 | The Financial Times of April 9 suggested that Ye , a reformist who had been building Guangdong into a " free-wheeling relatively autonomous province " , had been appointed to the new central post in order to deprive him of his regional power base . |
| 16 | There are two general methods for inputting text into a computer . |
| 17 | Moreover , there seems to be an element of moral righteousness in Bukharin 's attitude , in so far as he sought to clothe what could be considered necessary violence with an aura of positive good , thereby turning necessity into a virtue . |
| 18 | ‘ If you give me your gown , my lady , I will have it brushed for tomorrow , ’ the kind woman offered , ushering Isabel into a tiny chamber containing a bed and a low stool . |
| 19 | Likewise , in the British experience the act of pumping money into a particular spatially defined area has never guaranteed that those most in need in that area will benefit . |
| 20 | Despite his frequent boasts about the progress made under his rule , Ceauşescu was turning Romania into a steadily ‘ under-developing nation ’ ( to use Alec Douglas-Home 's felicitous phrase ) and taking it backwards . |
| 21 | That includes the cost of turning Loughborough into a replica of Oxford station in 1952 . |
| 22 | On the strength of this , the Swiss issued arrest warrants for all the DEA/CIA targets , and before returning in triumph to Paris , Jafaar rounded off his winter 's work by trapping Haser into a highly incriminating recorded conversation about heroin and morphine base shipments . |
| 23 | To presuppose , for example , that all ‘ quasi-judicial ’ matters could be dealt with in the same way is to risk forcing cases into a straightjacket that will be too big for some and too small for others . |
| 24 | The atmosphere was hostile enough to make even the sturdiest outfit crumble , with almost 38,000 — the biggest crowd in England this season outside Wembley — turning Anfield into a seething cauldron . |
| 25 | Bradford , however , always looked dangerous , with Mike Duxbury volleying wide , Paul Jewell forcing Prudhoe into a full length save and Stephen Torpey having a goal disallowed . |
| 26 | Bradford , however , always looked dangerous , with Mike Duxbury volleying wide , Paul Jewell forcing Prudhoe into a full length save and Stephen Torpey having a goal disallowed . |
| 27 | Some believe that this means turning baseball into a pay-per-view sport , even though the increasing hold of cable television is causing Congress to think again about baseball 's 70-year exemption from America 's antitrust laws . |
| 28 | While the English army remained preoccupied during the early 1650s with these military campaigns against the Irish and Scots , the Rump of the Long Parliament was able to pursue a foreign policy motivated primarily by commercial considerations , leading England into a naval war with her principal trading rival , Protestant Holland . |
| 29 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |
| 30 | Turning Sardinia into a Mediterranean Alcatraz to prevent hooliganism would have looked a little silly if Belgium had gone there instead . |