Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 2 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 3 | EUROPE 'S showjumping horses ended their longest ever journey to a Volvo World Cup Final — from Frankfurt , Germany , to southern California — in spectacular fashion , when United States ' fighter planes escorted them into two Miramar military air bases . |
| 4 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
| 5 | Her republican sympathies brought her into direct conflict with her brother Sir John French , who was viceroy , but they were reconciled before he died in 1925 . |
| 6 | Ludens followed him into one of the other rooms , a bedroom , green , where an iron bedstead was wrapped in stillness . |
| 7 | The children baited her into further wrath until , just as suddenly , she would snap out of it again and return to her former , demure self . |
| 8 | Of course , then these guys took it into ninth tunings and strange sixth configurations , and everybody 's got their own bag of tunings . |
| 9 | In her book Beautiful Theories , the late Elizabeth Bruss made a revealing examination of the way in which Barthes 's different translators carried out their task ; she shows that whereas Heath did not disguise the difficulty and opacity in Barthes 's texts , his American translators turned them into smooth narratives . |
| 10 | The nearer he got the more the hills below became steeper and wilder , the paths on them fewer , and only rough stone walls patterned them into occasional huge fields . |