Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 2 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 3 | Details are not yet available , but it is possible that Dr Threadneedle turned her into some sort of cyborg death machine . ’ |
| 4 | Villa Banfi is an American firm which bought an abandoned estate in an area famous for its wine production , and through massive investment developed it into one of the largest single enterprises of its kind in Europe . |
| 5 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 6 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 7 | Anxiety urged him into further risk . |
| 8 | She watched as Roman poured it into small white cups . |
| 9 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 10 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 11 | This perfidious inner reaction drove her into ferocious silence as they headed back down the coast again , berating her stupidity as she watched the lush green hills glide by . |
| 12 | Although they had decided that it was a drill motor , Bernice 's imagination turned it into all sorts of monsters . |
| 13 | Strawberry moved out of the burrow and Hazel followed him into another run , leading deeper down below the wood . |
| 14 | That disenchantment prompted him into one further expression of his views before the beginning of the war . |
| 15 | Later , with the Single European Act and British membership of the exchange rate mechanism — the right hon. Member for Finchley took us into that — our sovereignty was further eroded . |
| 16 | Apart from learning more about my own language , the eloquent richness of the Queen 's English and the previously undiscovered interest I had in teaching , my job brought me into close contact with real Spanish people . |
| 17 | The name of the plant describes its historical use by the ladies of Venice who used the plant in the belief that its property of dilating the pupil of the eye converted them into lustrous wide-eyed beauties . |
| 18 | EUROPE 'S showjumping horses ended their longest ever journey to a Volvo World Cup Final — from Frankfurt , Germany , to southern California — in spectacular fashion , when United States ' fighter planes escorted them into two Miramar military air bases . |
| 19 | The following March Bob Champion rode him into third place behind Alverton in 1979 the Cheltenham Gold Cup ( at 40–1 ) and the month after that Aldaniti ran second to Fighting Fit in the Scottish National at Ayr . |
| 20 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |
| 21 | That left seven , easily outnumbered by Boscawen 's 15 , plus frigates , and he used his superiority to crushing effect in an action which began around 1.30 pm and continued next day , when the last four French ships were driven into Lagos Bay , about 19 miles [ 30 km ] east of Cape St Vincent , on the coast of Portugal , where Boscawen pursued them into Portuguese waters . |
| 22 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
| 23 | Taking care with her napkin , Sarella folded it into eight equal parts . |
| 24 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 25 | Yet his storming finish carried him into third place , a head and 1 ½ lengths behind two super-fit hurdlers , Cruising Altitude ( rec 6lb ) and Nomadic Way ( rec 10lb ) . |
| 26 | Anger emanated from fitzAlan in waves , the force of it completely overwhelming her , even as the physical impact of that ruthless kiss stunned her into frozen immobility . |
| 27 | Ludens followed him into one of the other rooms , a bedroom , green , where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness . |
| 28 | But Everton 's recent success this season hoisted them into second place — and Johnston 's Goodison story may not be over yet . |
| 29 | Yet , stirring at the back of her mind and insistently pushing its way to the fore , the ungovernable curiosity that had in the past led her into strange , sometimes dangerous but often exciting situations was threatening to override her common sense . |
| 30 | Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest . |