Example sentences of "[v-ing] it into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She goes quiet again and takes one last draw from the cigarette before stubbing it into the ashtray . |
| 2 | From this position the clubhead is going to smother the ball , knocking it into the turf ( that 's why you see that little dent in the teeing ground ) . |
| 3 | The gene was transferred by splicing it into the DNA of a bacterium which naturally infects plant cells . |
| 4 | The spring should be cleaned before inserting it into the pipe and a long piece of string attached to the loop on the bending spring . |
| 5 | Joanna handed her a probe and , inserting it into the wound , Sophie began searching . |
| 6 | There is n't a track on it that I feel does n't do what it should do , which is taking a song out of its time and place and whisking it into the present to make it meaningful today . ’ |
| 7 | There is n't a track on it that I feel does n't do what it should do , which is taking a song out of its time and place and whisking it into the present to make it meaningful today . ’ |
| 8 | Christine made a grab for his gun as it spun away , but only succeeded in pushing it into a console , where its trigger caught on the comer . |
| 9 | Pages were put together by gathering the material up and roughing it into a layout based round the principal hooks — the headlines and pictures which were the only things that really mattered . |
| 10 | As Cati left , she continued , to Sabina , who was sprinkling flour into a basin and whirling it into a dough with her fist , ‘ But you can only wait for the storming to pass … . ’ |
| 11 | So I spent my first year developing that , translating it into a job description for me an my colleagues , structuring plans for the health boards and therefore job descriptions for general managers — it was a cascade — to help people in their everyday jobs , involving examining what proportions of the organisation were crucial , not just to the people within them , but to those using them . ’ |
| 12 | Through their objectivity , he argued , search consultants were able to provide what he saw as conceptual help in defining a business need and translating it into the sort of people who could fulfil it ; actually searching for people was perhaps less important . |
| 13 | Adding up everyone 's several sources of income and grouping it into a household income , related to where people live and the local rate , is a major exercise that our present income tax system is incapable of doing . |
| 14 | Carbon dioxide could be rendered harmless as a greenhouse gas by pumping it into the sea , according to consultant physicist Raymond Harrowell . |
| 15 | More worryingly insidious is their ability to act as magnets to acid rain , taking it from the atmosphere and releasing it into the soil , where it leaches down and enters the water system . |
| 16 | By releasing it into the world , he relieved himself and taunted the fates to punish him . |
| 17 | Two men kissing to music under the stars … or Little David , the barman , would bring out his famous white gauze and feather fans and send them gliding across his sweating chest and face ( you do n't see this any more these days ) — as if the secret thoughts that were normally hidden behind that odd smile in his eyes had escaped and taken flight ; as if , I used to think , it was magic , as if some oddly attractive boy had unbuttoned his flies for you and brought out not a fat red cock but a blinking , blinded , delicate , fluttering magician 's dove , releasing it into the roof of the dark theatre to fly crazily over your astonished head … and above all this was that ceiling of shining stars . |
| 18 | One CR 42 overshot their aircraft and Taylour managed to score hits on it , forcing it into a spin from which he considered it would not be able to recover . |
| 19 | Viruses multiply inside cells by hijacking the cells ' own molecular machinery and forcing it into the service of the viral life-cycle . |
| 20 | Getting him to eat was no problem , but preventing him throwing his food around or trampling it into the floor was . |
| 21 | We had a really tight budget and we feared the cost of turning it into a home was way beyond our means . |
| 22 | When you plant a fertile meme in my mind you literally parasitize my brain , turning it into a vehicle for the meme 's propagation in just the way that a virus may parasitize the genetic mechanism of a host cell . |
| 23 | Instead of using It ( a cleft structure ) , an identifying theme places an element in theme position by turning it into a nominalization using a wh-structure ( called a pseudo-cleft structure ) , as in What the book received in China was a great deal of publicity , or What was received by the book in China was a great deal of publicity . |
| 24 | His thick lashes made dark fans on his high cheekbones , and firelight flickering on his face emphasised the planes and angles , turning it into a bronze mask . |
| 25 | The South African Argus Group , which also had extensive interests in South Rhodesia , came north in 1951 and bought Welensky 's Northern News , turning it into a daily in 1953 . |
| 26 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 27 | He believed that it was a piece that people would want to go on seeing for years , and that turning it into a film would shorten its life . |
| 28 | He degrades the nobility of the place by turning it into a weekend retreat ; the human beings firmly under his sway — the Damsels , and the Artist — do not question his purpose , and he announces that his achievement will last for ever : |
| 29 | To some extent it is still a feature in the landscape , for Deronda takes Gwendolen to admire it from a special window , round which ‘ a sort of bower had been made … turning it into a recess ’ . |
| 30 | There will also be an OverDrive processor available , which will plug into the maths coprocessor socket , turning it into a machine which runs internally at 66MHz and externally at 33MHz . |