Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 2 | There is no evidence , to date , that making people belt-up turns them into worse drivers . |
| 3 | It soileth my soul , It leadeth me into deep waters , |
| 4 | I take it you book me into that hotel . |
| 5 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 6 | PLAN will be supporting the government 's policy to integrate these children into existing family units rather than absorb them into separate institutions . ’ |
| 7 | I 'll make them into double deckers . |
| 8 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 9 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 10 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 11 | Ohtake has recently been experimenting with objets trouvés , transforming them into architectural forms ; these are not , however , completely divorced from the spirit of the assemblages , collages , ink drawings and graffiti typical of his earlier work . |
| 12 | Bravely brushing aside any question of taste , Mementos invites customers to send in their champagne corks for dipping in silver or gold , ‘ transforming them into wonderful mementos of happy occasions ’ . |
| 13 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 14 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 15 | My new project led me into unexplored realms of psychology which I might otherwise have ignored . |
| 16 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 17 | You got me into this mess . |
| 18 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 19 | This got me into some problems too with a chap in Braigh who was very fond of black Polled cattle . |
| 20 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 21 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 22 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 23 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 24 | He took a group of young boys and monitored their play , divided them into three groups and showed each group one of three scenarios and then monitored them again . |
| 25 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 26 | ‘ What do you mean to do , ’ demanded Harry , looking fiercely up at him from under drawn brows , ‘ now that you 've tricked me into this betrayal ? |
| 27 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 28 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 29 | Next , enter nine other matches in a second column on the coupon and bracket them into three trios with a thick , dividing line underneath each set of three selections . |
| 30 | The expansion in the number and size of towns had already brought increasing numbers of villages within the urban orbit , stimulating them into commercial production for urban needs . |