Example sentences of "[vb base] [pron] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wash and dry the leaves and tear them into a salad bowl . |
| 2 | ‘ Do please change me into a wolf , Mr Bilsiter , ’ said Mrs Hampton during lunch on the day of his arrival . |
| 3 | Gather together favourite recipes , make them into a booklet and sell for funds . |
| 4 | Three children , aged between four and seven , scream as uniformed East Berlin police drag them and their mother off and push them into a lorry as they stand outside the US embassy in East Berlin , hoping desperately to get inside . |
| 5 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 6 | All they need to do is go up to the loft once a year and shovel them into a polythene bag ; they make excellent compost . |
| 7 | Just had a call to say , Robbo , whatever the things hanging in your loft might be , wait until the Autumn , go up with a big stick , and knock them into a carrier bag . |
| 8 | We transport you into a world of intrigue and illusion … clowns , if you like , murderers — we can do you ghosts and battles , on the skirmish level , heroes , villains , tormented lovers — set pieces in the poetic vein ; we can do you rapiers or rape or both , by all means , faithless wives and ravished virgins — flagrante delicto at a price , but that comes under realism for which there are special terms . |
| 9 | Basically Wegman expresses his view of the world as an absurd and irrational place by photographing Man Ray in a variety of disguises — inked-on whiskers and ears cunningly transform him into a cat , in a dress he becomes a transvestite , and in a hotel bed with Fay he becomes the envy of every red-blooded hound on the planet . |
| 10 | Then the Consultant Analyst will put the appropriate colour pellets into a beaker with an oil blend , heat it in a microwave oven , pour it into a split mould , cool it down to harden it , and slip it into a lipstick case . |
| 11 | Out with the corks of the wine , assuming you have n't done so already , and empty it into a saucepan . |
| 12 | Only they would have possessed the necessary authority and material wealth at the time to take prime land — the site of a major trading warehouse — and transform it into a dog cemetery . |
| 13 | Claudius was forced to decide between giving up Britain altogether , abandoning the conquest of Caesar and the unfulfilled hopes of Augustus , or an armed invasion to secure the island and transform it into a province . |
| 14 | Press it into a crack in the bark on the underside of a branch , securing it if necessary , and then wait . |
| 15 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 16 | Now take these twigs of basil , put them into a sack , and for seven nights you must sleep lying between the trenches of the vineyard , with your head pillowed on the sack . " |
| 17 | So do you want to copy this number down onto one label for each category and then put them into a bag and then But before Now wait a minute , wait a minute . |
| 18 | If you 've got clothes , your coats and dresses , and fold them over once , and then put them into a bag like that and we put them gently on top of the load , they come to no harm at all . |
| 19 | They put them into a box with one of Bobbie 's prettiest handkerchiefs . |
| 20 | We could , as in a lottery , put each name on a piece of card , all cards being identical , put them into a hat , shake well and take out ten cards . |
| 21 | Put them into a product and you can take out most of the preservatives . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Here , 'old on , ’ said Dolly , ‘ I ai n't five years old , y'know , I 'm twenty-one , and I ai n't lettin' you put me into a bath with no clothes on , it ai n't first thing decent . |
| 23 | With all or the exercises in this book , it 's important to write down your ideas , or speak them into a tape recorder . |
| 24 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
| 25 | ‘ Put her into a chair . ’ |
| 26 | Hurl her into a pit of snakes ? |
| 27 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 28 | Put it into a video player and watch it . |
| 29 | She took a roast from the refrigerator , put it into a baking tin , wrapped two potatoes in tinfoil and put both meat and vegetables into the gas oven . |
| 30 | Grate the rind from one of the grapefruit and put it into a baking dish , together with the shallots and wine . |