Example sentences of "[verb] it into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 2 | If you are sent incomprehensible bumf , find someone locally who can translate it into readable English . ) |
| 3 | As with normal ISA slots , you 'll be able to take any VL Bus video card and plug it into any motherboard with VL Bus slots — something you ca n't do with proprietary slots . |
| 4 | Above all it takes seriously the work done by the pupils on site , and incorporates it into further classwork . |
| 5 | Curt Wozniack , Sun 's vice president , engineering said it would take at least three to four years to understand and productise the technology , incorporating it into existing SBus or new hardware products . |
| 6 | Birds of prey are animal hunters and most catch their prey alive , killing it quickly with their specially strong feet or talons , and if necessary tearing it into smaller pieces to swallow . |
| 7 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | I suspect that if we were to take a sensate tension structure such as the love-hate paradox that lies at the heart of Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet theme , we would be able to transpose it into different forms each appropriate to a particular culture , and , provided we had the necessary skill of course , we would be able to do this for all cultures in the world . |
| 10 | Then she took out a comb , and began to set it into some kind of order . |
| 11 | One way to reduce the size of a search tree is to split it into smaller sub-trees representing more manageable sub-problems . |
| 12 | Instinctively she ran a hand through her dishevelled hair , smoothing it into some kind of order . |
| 13 | Midland Bank divides Britain into five big regions , while Royal Bank of Scotland ( RBS ) slices it into 45 markets . |
| 14 | Then he opened the cage , took out the part ( which now looked slightly different ) and dropped it into another bin . |
| 15 | put it into legal hands then . |
| 16 | Put it into first gear and he said , and the light went out , he said oh yes that 's fine . |
| 17 | So , it 's the difference between audiences : if you put it into one context it 's bad art , you put it into another context , it 's brilliant information . |
| 18 | Yeah , , try try and erm , put it into literal translation , to modern English . |
| 19 | If you 've got no choice but to get out and walk then you are gon na have to do that , and that 's all very well being a day like today , where it 's not pouring down with rain er , you 're not walking in a pitch black area , but if you do suddenly change that and you put it into those sort of , well that sort of scenario you 'll find it 's very , very , frightening . |
| 20 | So , it 's the difference between audiences : if you put it into one context it 's bad art , you put it into another context , it 's brilliant information . |
| 21 | These investment-people can make the capital produce more — put it into different things . ’ |
| 22 | So we put it into this pot and we invest it in as many funds and spread the money out , so if , if one fund does n't produce very much in return , another fund will , and so we in fact , get a better spread throughout the market , than you could do as an individual . |
| 23 | After she had squeezed blood out of me and squirted it into little bottles , she said ‘ Thank you very much ’ — I thought ‘ That was n't so bad ’ and was halfway out the door when a nurse redirected me to a bed and rolled up my sleeve . |
| 24 | If they were subsequently found to have an affected son , the apparent failure of the programme would bring it into unjustified disrepute . |
| 25 | Ragusa was able , however , to develop its overland trade with the Balkan hinterland , as this activity did not bring it into direct competition with the seaborne trade of Venice . |
| 26 | Buy about 1 ½ to 2 lb. of a good lean cut of beef — topside is perhaps the best — and cut it into small steaks each weighing about 3 to 4 oz . |
| 27 | Peel and core the fruit , cut it into crescent-moon slices and put it into the dish . |
| 28 | In fact I broadcast that material , but I cut it into three programmes , and I , I cut in the questions I would have asked if he 'd actually given me a chance to ask them . |
| 29 | I took a hacksaw to the shaft and , starting at the top , cut it into three sections . |
| 30 | Level the top of the cake and cut it into three rectangles widthways , two 10x20cm ( 4x8inches ) and the other 5x20cm ( 2x8inches ) . |