Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] it into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all |
| 2 | For those who ‘ liked a job to do ’ there was the distribution of food and clothing and fuel , and there were some who did it honestly and others who were suspected of turning it into a ‘ racket ’ . |
| 3 | We had a really tight budget and we feared the cost of turning it into a home was way beyond our means . |
| 4 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 5 | There 's been talk on the council of turning it into a swimming pool , but they ca n't afford it . |
| 6 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 7 | ‘ Nothing , but you 're in danger of turning it into an art form . |
| 8 | At present the beer is bottom-fermenting in the lager style but Bitburger are considering turning it into a top-fermenting beer . |
| 9 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 10 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 11 | Dressmakers who might prefer to sell a valuable piece of material rather than settle for the modest profit of making it into a dress . |
| 12 | He had no sense of humour , and he would keep harping on his seminary training instead of thrusting it into the background and making a fresh start . |
| 13 | Their problems are not likely to be solved unless this aspect of them is dealt with and some skill may be necessary in drawing it into the light . |
| 14 | She goes quiet again and takes one last draw from the cigarette before stubbing it into the ashtray . |
| 15 | Christine made a grab for his gun as it spun away , but only succeeded in pushing it into a console , where its trigger caught on the comer . |
| 16 | He removed the stereo from his brother 's car , to make it look as if it had been stolen , before pushing it into a water-filled quarry . |
| 17 | The spring should be cleaned before inserting it into the pipe and a long piece of string attached to the loop on the bending spring . |
| 18 | For example , if there are a total of twelve children , twelve divided by four equals three so have twelve sweets on the cake around the edges and cut the cake into quarters , each with three on , before cutting it into the individual pieces . |
| 19 | He studied the English copy for a few more moments before dropping it into the shredder . |
| 20 | He unspooled it , ripped it from the plastic , then rolled it in his palms before dropping it into an ashtray . |
| 21 | All aircraft and ships are banned from carrying it into the Philippines , and the Filipino Consul in Hawaii has to give the go-ahead for any flight containing Mr Marcos 's remains before it is allowed to take off . |
| 22 | So , for perfect results , reduce everything to the lowest common denominator before putting it into the press . |
| 23 | Brezhnev 's proposals for the Gulf were characterised as an ‘ extension of the conditions which the Soviet Union set earlier on the normalisation of conditions in the basin of the Indian Ocean , on transforming it into a zone of peace ’ . |
| 24 | Structural faults sent budgeted costs soaring , work on transforming it into a leisure empire stopped and its £100m debts were taken over by the Hong Kong brothers in February . |
| 25 | This quest for the singular , the contingent event which by definition refuses all conceptualization , can clearly be related to the project of constructing a form of knowledge that respects the other without absorbing it into the same . |
| 26 | McDonald outlines it thus : ‘ A : find the best artists you can ; B : keep them in a creative mood so that they make the best records they can , and C : maximise the sales of the records everywhere without turning it into a real form of drudgery for them . ’ |
| 27 | especially when it came to humping it into the van the A L O was nowhere to be found . |
| 28 | He had , in effect , stumbled without recognizing it into a major new area of understanding of the chemistry of brain function . |
| 29 | A terrific heat eased from his room , welding with the air outside making it into a different zone from the rest of the house , like the Gulf Stream off Scotland . |
| 30 | We should n't be bashed for putting it into a sale ; we help to bring it to a resolution by bringing out it into the open ’ . |