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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | put it into legal hands then . |
| 8 | Yeah , , try try and erm , put it into literal translation , to modern English . |
| 9 | These investment-people can make the capital produce more — put it into different things . ’ |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | If they were subsequently found to have an affected son , the apparent failure of the programme would bring it into unjustified disrepute . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Peel and core the fruit , cut it into crescent-moon slices and put it into the dish . |
| 15 | ‘ So your zeide says , ’ agreed Bertha Cohen as she spread the hake , thoroughly washed and cleaned , on a wooden board and cut it into thick pieces which she liberally sprinkled with salt . |
| 16 | ‘ Cut it into little bits . ’ |
| 17 | Secondly , having collated this information , they must find a way of translating it into actual literature . |
| 18 | This happened first in Germany , when Georg Siemens , the founder and head of Germany 's premier bank , Deutsche Bank , saved the electrical apparatus company his cousin Werner had founded after Werner 's sons and heirs had mismanaged it into near collapse . |
| 19 | The racial success story turns those who have made it into narrative role models for the next generation , who are pledged to follow in their footsteps ‘ one day ’ . |
| 20 | Charnos have taken the microfibre story and turned it into different leg looks — shiny , matt and suede — using the softer , finer handle and textures now available , the products can achieve that smoother than silk feel . |
| 21 | As the more doggedly political of the two , Reid in particular despised Richard Branson as an ‘ entrepreneur hippie ’ who had sold out everything that was exciting and subversive about the Sixties and turned it into big business . |
| 22 | The CRE was recently refused government funding of £140,000 to continue research into a method of extracting carbon dioxide produced by power stations and pumping it into depleted North Sea oil and gas wells , neutralising its environmental impact . |
| 23 | But you could fax yourself a copy of your signature or letterhead , save the incoming fax to disk , and incorporate it into outgoing faxes without too much hassle . |
| 24 | Iran has , after all , infringed British sovereignty by forcing it into massive protection for one of its own citizens . |
| 25 | Taking it out , she ripped it into tiny pieces then tossed the fragments into the bucket that still stood on the dresser like some awful avant-garde ornament . |
| 26 | But the temperature sensor in the tank was n't working , and the fuel could have reached 180 degrees … turning it into explosive gas which only needed one spark to ignite it . |
| 27 | Remove the vanilla pod , skim the jam , and let it cool for a few minutes before turning it into small jars . |
| 28 | ‘ It works by cooling the liquid slag with a water jet and turning it into granulated slag . |
| 29 | It still retains all its working parts and would require only minimum repairs to put it into full working order . |
| 30 | Two Scots with Cambridge connections took up Faraday 's work at last , trying to put it into mathematical form rather than to fit the discoveries into an existing theory ; and through their work came the great flowering of classical physics . |