Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] into [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hasty note , the spluttering pen , the exasperated correction , the careful clerkly hand , the grandiloquent flourish , the obsequious subscription , the torn seal , the glint of sand still held in the writing from the hand that strewed it centuries ago — all these and much else bring me into close company with the past , more than the rooms in which men sat , the streets they walked , the clothes they wore or the trinkets that adorned them . |
| 2 | It was not until 1880 that elementary education became compulsory and the main drive behind the legislation , according to Landes , was not so much the desire to instruct and educate but rather ‘ to discipline a growing mass of disaffected proletarians and integrate them into British society . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Project them into profitable change . |
| 5 | We write it out in longhand , each of the 700 or so entries on individual sheets of A4 paper and then put them into alphabetical order . ’ |
| 6 | Employment Action is a scheme that will take people off the dole queue and put them into full time work for benefit plus ten pounds . |
| 7 | I count them put them into little money bags . |
| 8 | Eventually he took over their management and put them into red patent leather suits , effectively driving the last nail into The Dolls ’ coffin . |
| 9 | Yeah , , try try and erm , put it into literal translation , to modern English . |
| 10 | I could n't get rid of my disability , became more staunch in my socialist politics , got rid of my accent and was thankful when my parents put themselves into enormous debt and bought a tip of a house in Croydon . |
| 11 | You put yourself into cold storage for two years as far as any kind of political practice goes and just sit and think — and do n't forget you 'll get paid £5000 a year to sit and think about the purity of the struggle we 're all fighting back here . ’ |
| 12 | I think I have sufficiently erased most of my first eighteen years , puréed them into harmless baby food . |
| 13 | It helps to break down tension and get everything into proper perspective , ’ he explained later . |
| 14 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |
| 15 | Extreme centralism and bureaucratic conservatism which characterise the USSR often plunge it into detailed consideration of procurement policy , but not on a continuous basis . |
| 16 | They are able to take in chemicals and convert them into usable energy and to synthesize all the components of the cell during growth that eventually leads to cell multiplication . |
| 17 | You can also use the program 's Optical Character Recognition facilities to read an incoming fax and convert it into editable text . |
| 18 | Some find themselves into formal language while others remain always in the realm of slang . |
| 19 | It did to some extent aggregate demands and turn them into viable policy issues , and it also acted as a downward channel of communication , explaining and rationalizing government policies in the hope of their greater acceptance by the citizens . |
| 20 | Her boobs may look like a couple of wrung-out teabags , but her granite stomach muscles somehow propel her into perfect proportion . |
| 21 | That was all part of the job — dig the dirt and then turn it into pure gold . |
| 22 | Unlike J S Bach ( arguably his greatest predecessor ) , whose music sprang from a single , overriding impulse — his deep religious beliefs — Mozart was able to take the common musical currency of his day , sacred or secular — opera , symphony , concerto , Mass , string quartet , sonata — and turn it into pure gold . |
| 23 | Claims to have found new mechanisms of evolution are common in the press , but they rarely make it into respectable science journals . |
| 24 | Make it into coloured juice . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ Bind his hands and feet , and cast him into outer darkness . ’ ’ |
| 27 | It did not take long for forces from the south to march upon the rebels and throw them into abject retreat . |
| 28 | I reckon if me and you , get the team playing each other get both , get two away goals , whatever , take it into extra time right , we both get a goal each and go , imagine going to penalties or something . |
| 29 | Macbeth also judges himself , and his many asides and soliloquies ( structurally as important as in Richard IN , although vastly more compressed ) bring us into close contact with his divided claims of desire and conscience ( ‘ This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill ; can not be good ’ ) . |