Example sentences of "[noun sg] into a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Canadians , more experienced than most in these matters , say that only a modest amount of special training is needed to turn a good soldier into a good peacekeeper . |
| 2 | Then pull the skirt into an old stocking with its toe cut off and curve around the inside of your case . |
| 3 | Hotspur laughed aloud , startling his horse into a side-long dance . |
| 4 | Nizan 's transition to the higher education system in 1924 , his first encounter with the fundamentally different educational environment of the Ecole Normale Superieure , coincided with a drastic reappraisal of the educational solution itself and projected Nizan into a downward spiral of crisis and despair . |
| 5 | It was draped in a pair of thin gauze curtains looped at each side into a narrow brass clasp . |
| 6 | The reintroduction of multiparty politics threw the opposition into a certain amount of disarray . |
| 7 | Particularly opposed by the dissident RPR factions were proposals for the dilution of the traditional role of the party leader by establishing a confederation with other pro-Gaullist groups outside the RPR ( including dissidents ) , for the formation of a joint shadow cabinet with centrist and right-wing parties including the Union for French Democracy ( UDF ) , and the proposal by another Renovator , Michel Noir , a potential presidential candidate , for the actual merger of the RPR with other elements of the opposition into a single party . |
| 8 | But this does not stop Abse constructing an elaborate thesis based on Thatcher 's ‘ sphincter morality ’ , for which her mother , Beatrice , should really take the blame : ‘ Thatcher succeeded in initiating the electorate into a new form of gambling : her personal need to end the earlier constraints which she had endured , outlawing the joys of shitting and coprophilia , drove her to open the doors of the Stock Exchange , and end its exclusivity . ’ |
| 9 | Leipzig 's Protestant Church leader , Mr Friedrich Magirius , called on East Germans to turn next Monday 's demonstration into a silent march for the victims of Stalinism , and to suspend protests over Christmas to gain a ‘ pause for reflection ’ . |
| 10 | A Bristol merchant , of Quaker origin , called William Springett bought Alderly in the early 1740s and determined to turn what was then a small and jumbled Tudor manor into an up-to-date gentleman 's seat . |
| 11 | The weather verged through a blustery spring into a rainy May . |
| 12 | Since I repotted it this spring into a generous-sized pot , it has not only burgeoned but I 've also found it much easier to keep the compost just nicely moist . |
| 13 | The ‘ something else ’ is often more irritation and anger , as when a driver who has almost had an accident transforms his fear into a prolonged tirade against the other driver . |
| 14 | The glance that Gideon Eddy turned upon the perspiring landlord had struck fear into a whole generation of London criminals . |
| 15 | Mix a little yellow into a blue scheme and enrich blues with purples . |
| 16 | IBM UK Ltd will spin off its marketing and communications department into an independent agency on January 1 1993 . |
| 17 | Jacqui looked on the verge of tears , and , as usual , converted her emotion into a violent outburst . |
| 18 | Put the saucepan into a large bowl of hot water to keep the toffee warm and soft while dipping the apples allowing the excess to drip off . |
| 19 | Finally , by combined ( complex ) competition we mean the struggle that is waged by combined enterprises , i.e. , capitalist units which amalgamate various branches of production , i.e. , which transform the social division of labour into a technical division . |
| 20 | The aims of the work operated in different ways but principally they represented my attempt to set personal responses to premature labour into a cultural context . |
| 21 | The official mandate of the United Nations Protection Force is to ‘ ride shotgun ’ with relief convoys , but the British battalion has stretched that mandate into a peacemaking role . |
| 22 | Time after time he overtook in the face of oncoming traffic then braked heavily as he forced the car into a small gap causing everyone behind him to brake amidst the clouds of exhaust smoke from his obviously tired old engine . |
| 23 | After a moment he exclaimed in satisfaction and swung the car into a narrow lane . |
| 24 | He turned the car into a narrow street and stopped in a yard that could have been the twin of the one at the other hotel . |
| 25 | ‘ The most common destructive test is to drive the car into a concrete block at 30 mph . |
| 26 | Turning his car into a mobile advert for the book , he hustled copies outside clubs and used the money to print up part two , which in turn funded part three — in which Q broke the ultimate literary taboo and swapped the printed word for audiocassette , reading ever ambient funk backdrops . |
| 27 | He rammed his foot down on the brake and sent the car into a fizzing convulsion of rev and whinny . |
| 28 | The side corridor ran along the length of these three rooms , and opened at the other end of the car into a comfortable lounge , with settee , three armchairs , and tables . |
| 29 | Brundle puts the car into a massive slide across the bend and catches it after we have left the track on the other side . |
| 30 | Erika and Karl got out of the warmth of the car into a crystalline coldness , walked up an avenue lined with bare trees and came to an enclosed garden . |