Example sentences of "[to-vb] them into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner . |
| 2 | The organisers of the conference had amassed the hundreds of rights suggested under 17 different principles , hoping eventually to amalgamate them into a single-page charter and a declaration similar to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights . |
| 3 | According to ICL , notebooks have two distinct uses : first , they are a user 's only or main machine — so , it must be possible to plug them into a local network , and they must have the functionality of a standard personal computer . |
| 4 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
| 5 | She began to mince them into a fragrant green hill on the board in front of her . |
| 6 | The aim of the three-to-seven-year leasing programme is to free 1,250 pubs from the brewers ' tie before the November deadline , rather than try to sell them into a depressed market . |
| 7 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
| 8 | They grow up unbalanced , and need only minor frustrations or the stimulus of pornography to tip them into an orgy of violence against women and girls . |
| 9 | One may wish to study the statistics of word usage or word order with a view to understanding a text better , to catch nuances of meaning and perhaps to render them into a different language . |
| 10 | Whilst it is not incorrect to identify all of these as sources , or illustrations , of moral indignation of one sort or another — indeed there are significant connections between them — attempting to fit them into a historical framework which appears to allow only for movements in one direction , i.e. permissiveness followed by control , results in a degree of historical inaccuracy . |
| 11 | ( Or even better , try to fit them into a very short story . ) |
| 12 | As the first one had managed to flutter down , it seemed that the rest should be able to do the same , but I judged it safer to load them into a cardboard box and lower them gently . |
| 13 | If the newcomers have fairly extreme opinions , some towards the Right and some towards the Left , it will be more difficult for the select committee atmosphere to mould them into a team upholding the legislature as opposed to the government of the day . |
| 14 | You must also remember to press some of the other parts of the roses , such as the sepals and perhaps even the centres , as these will prove to be useful later on when you come to reassemble them into a design . |
| 15 | This makes it difficult to incorporate them into a colour scheme , although a well-pressed orchid can look very effective as the centrepiece of a design if surrounded by flowers of complementary colours . |
| 16 | The examination of the techniques that humans employ when reading and try to incorporate them into a computational system is therefore worthwhile . |
| 17 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
| 18 | The recommended treatment for infested books is to put them into a sealed tin with a jar of paradichlorobenzine for a week . |
| 19 | We do not try to put them into a common framework , and it is difficult to conceive of any satisfactory empirical tests . |
| 20 | Having made a sequence of images , ask them to put them into a different running order . |
| 21 | And at the end of that fifty thousand years , if that 's what it is , the populations are sufficiently different that I 'd think you 'd want to put them into a different species if — I mean how are you to know , but I mean it 's a reasonable judgement . |
| 22 | Some people find it helpful to listen to the noises and to try to be selective , to turn them into a tune or a rhythm . |
| 23 | The fee was n't much , but Harford wanted a club in the south and that was it — not much consolation for Kendall , who knows he might well have done for Everton what he 's doing for Chelsea , helping to turn them into a real Premier League force . |
| 24 | The first such is Microsoft Workgroup Templates : these are bundles of technologies , such as macros and dynamic link libraries which can be bolted onto existing applications to turn them into a specific workgroup ‘ solution ’ . |
| 25 | In the 1890s a serious effort was made to transform them into a rural police force . |
| 26 | He had expected a butler or some obsequious manservant , at the least a maid or companion , to welcome them into a room shining with silver and silk carpets . |
| 27 | They wanted to get them into a union , lots of ideas about what they could do for you . |
| 28 | Any small hope held out to her by circumstances , or by her lover , is as a wisp which she can spin and twist into a thread , and if she gathers enough of these her feelings tell her that she will be able to bind them into a strong rope . |
| 29 | This was directly aimed at the ‘ surplus countries ’ , especially Japan and Germany , and was an attempt to bind them into a system where they could not pile up persistent surpluses . |
| 30 | I mean , we told you that he was planning what he called a tactful chat with the main protagonists , but I thought the idea was to lull them into a sense of false security . |