Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [verb] it into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 2 | I tried to load it into erm Word and it completely screwed up . |
| 3 | I want to get it into brilliant condition first . |
| 4 | Unfortunately I forgot to translate it into English , but you may remember — jeg elsker dig … ? ’ |
| 5 | SIR — On coming into £40,000 I decided to put it into a trust for my grandchildren , to be paid out as each reaches the age of 24 years . |
| 6 | I do add it into the costs if it 's |
| 7 | The very existence of the flood — the fact that I had invited it into my awareness — showed that I had emotional ‘ work ’ to do . |
| 8 | I thought I should go mad if my brother did not come home at the appointed hour , for I longed to thrust it into his hands . |
| 9 | I 've brung it into school loads of times . |
| 10 | I 've converted it into a study . |
| 11 | Then , ’ he added , ‘ when I 've turned it into silage , I sell it . |
| 12 | I 've thumped it into your ears that she 's mine and she 'll remain mine . |
| 13 | I 've put it into the bank and I shall give you the money . |
| 14 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 15 | Not because I 've tapped it into the word processor so many times — though that would be reason enough — but because once it is uttered even the most sensible , humane people tend to react in a disturbing , almost totalitarian , way . |
| 16 | They feel like an extension of my arm , with a sweet action down their 10 ft length which is supple enough to cast free-lined baits and give me a feel of a fighting fish , yet with power to spare when I have to bend it into the run of a big carp . |
| 17 | I have translated it into English … |
| 18 | The degree of interaction between observer and energies is reflected in the spectrum and I have divided it into six strands : experience , attunement , ritual , interaction , manipulation and control . |
| 19 | To simplify matters I have divided it into three main areas . |
| 20 | No , the difficulty I have with Dennett 's excellent paper , and the reason I have brought it into discussion here , has to do with the fact that he never actually says which parts of the diagram are in consciousness and his view is consistent with consciousness being ( a ) the ‘ control box ’ , ( b ) sometimes one box and sometimes another ( very like the ‘ heterarchical aspect ’ of Minsky 's views , which I earlier called a ‘ pinball machine ’ theory of consciousness ) , or ( c ) some elements of what passed down the communication channels , that is to say , the lines between the boxes . |
| 21 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 22 | Lady , a Jack Russell from Hampshire , loves travelling in her owner 's van so much that she decided to transform it into the perfect den to have her puppies . |
| 23 | One of the problems with humour is you 've got to make an immediate impact sometimes if you try to analyse it into too much detail , it spoils it . |
| 24 | So your mum 's cut it up or you 've cut it up this time just between the two of us and you 've cut it into two halves you 've got half there and I 've got another half . |
| 25 | You know you can do it you can do the fractions and once you 've turned it into twelfths you can do it . |
| 26 | ‘ In fact , ’ Luke was saying , ‘ now that you 've got it into your head that Rob 's happy with Heather , why do n't we throw out all the aggro and start from scratch ? |
| 27 | Next second she had plunged it into them . |
| 28 | On these mornings her freckled face was blanched , and she sat motionless at the breakfast table , staring sightlessly into a cup of cold , wrinkle-skinned coffee , while her long red hair gradually slithered out of the nest of twists she had knotted it into , and hairgrips pinged out over the floor and the table around her . |
| 29 | She had cried it into her pillow at night , sobbing with the vain child 's hope that tears would somehow magically make it all come right , that in the morning her mother would be there . |
| 30 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |