Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 3 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 4 | My natural speed turned me into a wing three-quarter at rugby for the colts , though I can always recall matches in the centre and at fly-half . |
| 5 | The opposition ( former communist ) Bulgarian Socialist Party said on Jan. 21 that " instead of [ Bulgaria ] being a pillar of peace in the Balkans " the recognition turned it into an " object of suspicions and doubts by its neighbours " . |
| 6 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 7 | The climax came when Cornish Lady appeared in the western Channel , her progress was monitored and the cutter Alert , with Jim Cameron in command followed her into the river Exe , keeping in close radio contact with the waiting officers on shore . |
| 8 | I was serious about acting in those days , but the hungrier I got the more my resolution sagged , until a guy I 'd known at college talked me into a job with the Defense Department . ’ |
| 9 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 10 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 11 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |
| 12 | Nothing seemed to exist outside that swaying chair and Simon , whose terrifying ability to repress his own humanity made him into an enemy that Gazzer did n't know how to defeat . |
| 13 | Skipper , Derek Hall cracked them into the lead midway through the first half . |
| 14 | Her vacuum cleaner drove him into the street , in search of a coffee shop . |
| 15 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 16 | A Reception lady showed me into a tiny broadcasting room full of switched-off microphones . |
| 17 | Nkrumah 's mother was converted to Christianity by a German Roman Catholic priest and the boy followed her into the Church . |
| 18 | By providing Japan with the opportunity to save face and make an orderly withdrawal from drift-net fishing , the UN Second Committee bound them into a commitment to cease drift-net operations in the near future — an astonishing achievement for a campaign which had only really gathered momentum 10 months earlier , with the sinking of the Sankichi Maru . |
| 19 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 20 | A guard ushered them into the Beauchamp Tower and up into Mistress Philippa 's chamber on the second floor . |
| 21 | The full-back appeared in Aberdeen 's penalty area and determination carried him into a spot where he could see the right-hand corner of Snelders 's goal , sending the ball there with all the assurance that had characterised Clydebank 's return from the brink . |
| 22 | In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank . |
| 23 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 24 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 25 | She 's written to her M P , Andrew Smith , and at the start of this year , British Rail allowed her into the buffet car . |
| 26 | After death the bodies of the victims of the eruption were rapidly buried by the accumulating ash , and rain falling on this ash soon after the eruption cemented it into a fairly hard mass before the flesh of the corpses had decayed . |
| 27 | Protestant for years when Roman Catholics were proscribed , then some Victorian industrialist who was a religious crank turned it into a hostel for people off the street . |
| 28 | Instead the overwrought director turned it into a bitter battle which ends with the lover , played by Sydney Pollack , savagely forcing Lysette 's character into his car . |
| 29 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |
| 30 | The housekeeper showed them into an antechamber bleak as a dentist 's waiting-room . |