Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] into [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 5 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The pictures resisted his efforts to shuffle them into chronological order . |
| 8 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 9 | She felt him naked between her thighs , felt the throb of his manhood against her slippery skin , and his long , expert fingers were still on the pulse that was taking her over , making her mad , driving her into wild darkness , and his voice said thickly , ‘ Rachel … |
| 10 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 11 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 12 | His position , both in the City and at the Tower , impelled him into political controversy , particularly during the exclusion crisis , when he was accused of suppressing information on the Popish Plot , and when his removal was demanded by the House of Lords and his conduct inquired into by the House of Commons . |
| 13 | If you are sent incomprehensible bumf , find someone locally who can translate it into readable English . ) |
| 14 | The indication here is that the caged finch has been placed close to the owl in order to provoke it into prolonged alarm calling that will attract others of its kind . |
| 15 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 16 | The Supreme Court ruled on Jan. 22 that those who had fled from countries where rebel forces had attempted to coerce them into military service were not entitled to political asylum . |
| 17 | The CNAA was a marvellous learning process which … drove me into intimate contact with a wide range of higher education courses , in dance primarily , which taught me the criteria for judging dance as a higher education subject … |
| 18 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 19 | It was not until 1880 that elementary education became compulsory and the main drive behind the legislation , according to Landes , was not so much the desire to instruct and educate but rather ‘ to discipline a growing mass of disaffected proletarians and integrate them into British society . |
| 20 | It was my joy to find old Chinese stories and transcribe them into dramatic radio productions such as ‘ The Good Luck Horse ’ , ‘ The Luck of Shao Nien ’ , ‘ The Poet and the Peony ’ and many others . |
| 21 | Give winter cauliflowers and spring cabbage a feed of nitrogenous fertiliser , if not already done , to spur them into fresh growth and increase their size and tenderness . |
| 22 | Project them into profitable change . |
| 23 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 24 | Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds . |
| 25 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 26 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 27 | Because all shareholders will benefit if performance improves ( either through Usurping present management or by frightening them into improved performance ) , why should any rational individual be the one to incur the costs ; why not leave it to someone else ? |
| 28 | By the late 1880s , however , Japan had growing interests in mainland Asia , and there was a danger that Japan 's attempts to assert herself in Korea and in Manchuria would bring her into direct confrontation with the expanding Russian empire . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |