Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sixty of them and put them out and make them into nice little lines and that and see what things you 'd have to multiply together to make twelve or what numbers you 'd multiply together cos it 'd be so many sets of like four sets of three or three sets of four . |
| 32 | Let a rug or painting suggest or inspire the colour scheme ; if you ca n't revamp old curtains ( though beware ! re-making can sometimes be just as expensive as starting afresh ) turn them into cushions ; cut down carpets which no longer fit but are too good to be thrown out , and make them into small rugs . |
| 33 | This formal writing-up took nearly twenty years : it is one thing to collect data , and another to evaluate it and make it into public knowledge . |
| 34 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 35 | If a local merchant then buys wine and decants it into re-sealable quarter-litre bottles , selling it retail at $1.00 per bottle , two effects might be observed . |
| 36 | The Varga Plants , a wound from whose thorns replaces a man 's thoughts with an overwhelming urge to kill and turns him into one of themselves , grow naturally only on the planet whose laboratories have developed them : Skaro , home of the Daleks . |
| 37 | Turbobat is a very powerful multiple pass batch file compiler that takes DOS batch files and turns them into binary code that can execute up to four times faster than the original . |
| 38 | When the time is right Shamans pick the special fungus and make the vile brew which sends the Fanatics crazy and turns them into uncontrolled whirling maniacs . |
| 39 | Older people , on the basis of chronological age , are progressively removed from economic life , which provides them not only with income , but structures their daily routines and integrates them into regular social relationships . |
| 40 | Many of the individual steps have been identified and considerable efforts are under way to take the steps and combine them into efficient catalytic cycles . |
| 41 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 42 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 43 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 44 | Leaning forward as far as she dared , with the great torso of the suit at a right angle to its legs , she made the claws unhook her wrist computer and plug it into one of the empty sockets on the panel . |
| 45 | 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 . |
| 46 | It is therefore necessary to pick up the optical signals , convert them into electrical signals , amplify them using a repeater and re-convert them into optical signals every so often along the way . |
| 47 | Thereafter , re-modularisation can take place systematically , by booking out the necessary modules and reconstituting them into new modules as required . |
| 48 | Above all it takes seriously the work done by the pupils on site , and incorporates it into further classwork . |
| 49 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | ‘ 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 . |
| 52 | Level the top of the cake and cut it into three rectangles widthways , two 10x20cm ( 4x8inches ) and the other 5x20cm ( 2x8inches ) . |
| 53 | It was my joy to find old Chinese stories and transcribe them into dramatic radio productions such as ‘ The Good Luck Horse ’ , ‘ The Luck of Shao Nien ’ , ‘ The Poet and the Peony ’ and many others . |
| 54 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 55 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 56 | Your parents nag you and bribe you ( they call it loving you ) and bash you into some sort of shape that suits them . |
| 57 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 58 | Howard would like to put his arms about the whole team , as they crowd round the journal , smelling of shirts , and squeeze them all , and fuse them into one perfect corporate human being . |
| 59 | We 've flavoured our truffles with Grand Marnier , but for a change try rum , brandy or the almond liqueur Amaretto di Saronno and shape them into small logs or disc shapes . |
| 60 | I took my clothes off and put them into one of the largest warships . |