Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] it into " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That idiot Amanda ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ has let her long hair grow even longer during the hols and her mother has plaited it into pigtails . |
| 2 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 3 | So clueless and incompetent , so capable of mismanagement that it has turned it into an art form . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Luke , on the other hand , has made it into the bigtime . |
| 6 | Rate-setting is a springtime routine that all local authorities must perform by April East — This year , in some places , an accumulation of past extravagance , poor accounting an uncertainty about the lawfulness of various bits of figure-shuffling has transformed it into drama . |
| 7 | The Northern Foods shares are lower than they should be , because the stock market has got it into its head that competition is tougher than ever in the food business . |
| 8 | Just as Britain tried to ‘ deal with ’ water pollution with longer pipes and the principle of dilute and disperse , its reliance on exactly the same policy has drawn it into conflicts over air pollution . |
| 9 | We 're asking for a union campaign , and I 've got to applaud Mick and APEX at the APEX conference , we are at the forefront of this issue , we 've worked hard with that family , Jenny and Peter to bring this issue to the , to national attention , through that , our Euro M P , through Denise there , Denise has brought it into Europe . |
| 10 | As well as starring and directing , he has adapted the play for the screen , though that is n't to say , quite , that he has translated it into film language . |
| 11 | When the coup in Yugoslavia in spring 1941 interfered with Hitler 's plans for an attack on the Soviet Union ( Britain 's last potential Continental ally ) and a deterioration in mood set in owing to the threatening extension of the war to the Balkans , SD soundings of opinion again registered ‘ with what childlike trust the most ordinary people in particular look up to the Führer and our leadership of state ’ , convinced that ‘ the Führer has taken it into account and will deal properly with it ’ . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Harriet — Miss Jarman — has taken it into her head to pursue this matter against the Captain . |
| 13 | Although we have a joint account , he is the one who has taken it into overdraft and I do n't see why I should do as he suggests . |
| 14 | They know every track and ledge in the slag ; know how the rain has carved it into gulleys where now the snow lies deep as a crevasse ; know how the surface of the slag is in parts rotten as scree , an in others as hard as iron . |
| 15 | He has bought the rights to a steamy book by Darling Buds Of May author H. E. Bates and plans to turn it into a TV movie starring his wife . |
| 16 | The 1.3Gb optical drive is jukebox-ready , and the company plans to integrate it into its line of optical disk libraries by late summer , and to offer it as an upgrade to its existing jukebox customers . |
| 17 | Thus the process of contract formation arising out of the exchange of documents containing or referring to standard terms creates considerable problems when one tries to fit it into the framework of offer and acceptance . |
| 18 | It still retains all its working parts and would require only minimum repairs to put it into full working order . |
| 19 | So he puts it on the table and tries to squash it into shape , and by the time he 's got his mouth full of that he ca n't make a sound . |
| 20 | Typically , someone has a bright idea and decides to put it into play . |
| 21 | The corporatist view , by perceiving the company as a unit which welds together the interests of its participants into a harmonious common purpose defined as the public good , seems to draw on the ideal of community and seeks to inject it into an area which the dominant legal ideology regulates through contract and hierarchy . |
| 22 | The county Health Authority proposes to turn it into a mere residential home , removing hospital facilities . |
| 23 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 24 | This is just a friendly hi and then inside it says from I , and she 's made it into Irene . |
| 25 | You know , they 've done all these tests over there , for all these Americans that ca n't cope , is that what it is really , and somebody 's imported it into this country . |
| 26 | The action has played a strong part in industrial safety but attempts to introduce it into other areas have been less successful . |