Example sentences of "[verb] it into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point I saw Bunny write something , probably her ‘ phone number , on a drip mat and slip it into the back pocket of his jeans . |
| 2 | Although the dummy used to belong to me — still does , by rights — I slip it into the sucking mouth : small sacrifice . |
| 3 | It should sell like hot cakes if I knock it into the right sort of shape . |
| 4 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 5 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 6 | Thomas moved , knocking it into the red weed . |
| 7 | They would unite with the workers over their struggle for economic improvements only so that ‘ by smuggling in the Marxian doctrine , [ they could ] transform it into the ideological struggle of classes . ’ |
| 8 | Apply Vaseline liberally to the green insertion tool , fit it into the top section of the tap , then place the white seat on the end of the insertion tool . |
| 9 | Simpson still delays taking the kick , now it comes in , he knocks it into the far post , looking for Paul . |
| 10 | Even though its evolutionary course was eventually destined to lead it into the complicated and probably costly distortions involved in having two eyes on one side , even though the skate way of being a flat fish might ultimately have been the best design for bony fish too , the would-be intermediates that set out along this evolutionary pathway apparently did less well in the short term than their rivals lying on their side . |
| 11 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |
| 12 | That will increase Fleet/Norstar 's assets by 40% to $47 billion , catapulting it into the top rank of American banks . |
| 13 | The centre hopes that cash generated by visitors will chiefly propel it into the final two phases of its development . |
| 14 | Then he charged to the other end to anticipate a precise through ball from McMahon and reach it just before the advancing Lukic and flick it into the empty net . |
| 15 | It is a practical issue because by taking information out of the analogue world , the ‘ real ’ world , comprehensible and palpable to human beings , and translating it into the digital world , we make it infinitely changeable . |
| 16 | WHAT DO you do when your image as a bunch of glamorous rock'n'roll animals starts wearing thin , and you still have n't made it into the big time ? |
| 17 | It does n't take the detective skills of Lord Peter Wimsey to track down the novels of Dorothy L Sayers … she 's made it into the top shelf of crime writers . |
| 18 | It draws magical power from the War Altar and passes it into the Grand Theogonist . |
| 19 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |
| 20 | Extending a short prong from the board , he rammed it into the upper surface of the brick . |
| 21 | THE estranged wife of a cheating council boss told last night how she took his £22,000 Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of the town hall where he works . |
| 22 | The 28year-old blonde jumped into his Hregistered Mercedes and rammed it into the front doors of Gosport town hall in Hampshire . |
| 23 | We 've had it into the major research laboratories around the world who specialise in security . |
| 24 | And then the bought the drill hall and turned it into the public hall and presented it to the island . |
| 25 | Then , when the guests are drumming their knives and forks on the table with impatience , I take out my fillet and slice it into the appropriate chunks . |
| 26 | Er I was fully aware of the fact that er you know , some people say , particularly in the fitting departments where experience had taught the fitters , having been given a free hand , er that they accumulated all the parts for a job , or even part of the job , they did certain assemblies you know , until they got all the part pieces assembled ready to combine it into the main unit , erm that experience er was being overtaken by an introduction of smaller units being assembled you know , bit by bit as they were being produced in the machine shop . |
| 27 | It vapourized Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands , turning it into the many-coloured mushroom cloud , 25 miles high and 100 miles wide , which became the symbol of anxiety for mankind . |
| 28 | Atheism is virtually unknown in pagan and rural societies , but this new rationalism will usher it into the modern world . |
| 29 | Once cut , re-insert it into the top bracket . |
| 30 | The striker took the ball in his stride and powered it into the top right hand corner from 25 yards . |