Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had a way of shaping them into round balls , raising her arms in a wide , swinging movement and hurling them straight at Elizabeth . |
| 2 | One of the most successful ways of giving a different quality to the steps and poses of classical dance and of transforming them into demi-caractère style is to relate them intimately to appropriate music . |
| 3 | Ohtake has recently been experimenting with objets trouvés , transforming them into architectural forms ; these are not , however , completely divorced from the spirit of the assemblages , collages , ink drawings and graffiti typical of his earlier work . |
| 4 | Bravely brushing aside any question of taste , Mementos invites customers to send in their champagne corks for dipping in silver or gold , ‘ transforming them into wonderful mementos of happy occasions ’ . |
| 5 | Equally , however , it has been driven from within the organisation by reducing beds , shutting old hospitals , or transforming them into nursing homes , and concentrating high technology investment in a small number of centres , well equipped and well staffed . |
| 6 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 7 | The expansion in the number and size of towns had already brought increasing numbers of villages within the urban orbit , stimulating them into commercial production for urban needs . |
| 8 | Thereafter , re-modularisation can take place systematically , by booking out the necessary modules and reconstituting them into new modules as required . |
| 9 | It is wiser to undertake this systematically by booking out copies of the originals from LIFESPAN and then reconstituting them into new modules as required . |
| 10 | Then I destroyed them , sometimes tearing them into little strips , sometimes burning them . |
| 11 | They won one , in South Paddington , and cost official Conservative candidates the seat in several more , often driving them into third place . |
| 12 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 13 | She felt him naked between her thighs , felt the throb of his manhood against her slippery skin , and his long , expert fingers were still on the pulse that was taking her over , making her mad , driving her into wild darkness , and his voice said thickly , ‘ Rachel … |
| 14 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 15 | Curt Wozniack , Sun 's vice president , engineering said it would take at least three to four years to understand and productise the technology , incorporating it into existing SBus or new hardware products . |
| 16 | Birds of prey are animal hunters and most catch their prey alive , killing it quickly with their specially strong feet or talons , and if necessary tearing it into smaller pieces to swallow . |
| 17 | Thus , in addition to the general process in which the market registers people 's choices and these feed back into selected or discontinued types of production , there is an evident pressure , at or before the point of production , to reduce costs : either by improving the technical means of reproduction , or by altering the nature of the work or pressing it into other forms . |
| 18 | Translating them into actual events , there could be few people who had anticipated that a British Airways Boeing 747 would suffer loss of power on all four engines for sixteen minutes when it flew into a volcanic ash cloud at 37 000 feet . |
| 19 | Ideas can , and do , occur in a variety of ways , and the process of translating them into successful innovations can be understood better through the uncertainty map . |
| 20 | But classifying animals and plants , living and fossil , is more than just an attempt to find a convenient way of slotting them into different categories , like stamps in a stamp album , for neatness and convenience . |
| 21 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 22 | Because all shareholders will benefit if performance improves ( either through Usurping present management or by frightening them into improved performance ) , why should any rational individual be the one to incur the costs ; why not leave it to someone else ? |
| 23 | Instinctively she ran a hand through her dishevelled hair , smoothing it into some kind of order . |
| 24 | Secondly , having collated this information , they must find a way of translating it into actual literature . |
| 25 | We are , or should be , much more willing to allow children to enjoy the special world of childhood without forcing them into premature adulthood . |
| 26 | Until the early 1960s external pressures were not , in the main , strong enough to precipitate crises within companies , forcing them into radical reorganisation . |
| 27 | The 1944 Education Act created a unified framework which brought the church schools under state control ( turning them into maintained schools ) , but left them with varying degrees of independence , usually over religious matters , according to how much financial support the church continued to provide . |
| 28 | It was boarding that gave solidity to the schools , turning them into total societies — often in rural and inaccessible surroundings — and reinforcing both achievement and a potent sense of cohesion . |
| 29 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 30 | His government has had considerable success in winning over guerrilla field commanders and turning them into semi-autonomous militias with lavish handouts of money and arms . |