Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] them into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 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 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 4 | Ideas can , and do , occur in a variety of ways , and the process of translating them into successful innovations can be understood better through the uncertainty map . |
| 5 | This was regarded and listened to with some incredulity by the majority of the airmen , whose main ambition regarding Waafs had much to do with getting them into dark corners , like behind the Naafi , and nothing whatever to do with playing the flute or any other instrument . |
| 6 | He knows how to make people laugh , without whipping them into such a state of excitement that they feel a keen sense of anti-climax when the host of the show comes on . |
| 7 | We are , or should be , much more willing to allow children to enjoy the special world of childhood without forcing them into premature adulthood . |
| 8 | Since then I have done something I should have done in the first place : found a gap in the rushes only ten yards downstream where I can heave into the fish without pulling them into more weed . |
| 9 | Looked at in this way theory then becomes the ordering of facts and findings in a meaningful way and this ordering and building up is of the very essence of scientific enquiry , since without ordering facts and without putting them into some systematic framework there can be no generalizations and no predictions . |
| 10 | To many scholars of the early Anglo-Saxon period the study of artefacts with a view to placing them into dated sequences is archaeology and is accompanied by little or no questioning of the basis of the method . |
| 11 | If the threat of ( big ) wars is small , it will make sense to spend more of that money researching and developing weapons and less on putting them into full-scale production — or on training and feeding expensive troops . |
| 12 | To give them the right to vote by absorbing them into one of the English constituencies and it could have easily been done . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | The government also proposed a new media policy , giving the television service , Doordarshan , and All-India Radio autonomy by turning them into public corporations , similar to the status enjoyed in the United Kingdom by the British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) . |
| 15 | Once you have the technique in hand you can use 24 stitch repeats by punching them into 12 stitch repeat cards , provided that they are a repeat of either four stitches , six stitches or 12 stitches . |
| 16 | Its fossils have been investigated by cutting them into thin slices , a technique that has revealed a great deal about its anatomy , even down to the details of the structure of its blood vessels . |
| 17 | The average builder will probably have put in just a single central pendant light in each room , so we have to add extra lights by plugging them into precious socket outlets ( precious because the builder does n't put enough of these in either ! ) . |
| 18 | The clubs reacted by increased policing of the fans and by herding them into segregated areas of the terraces . |
| 19 | Fred Brimacombe , lobster seller , Plymouth , on the city council 's proposal to stop fishermen killing lobsters by throwing them into boiling water . |