Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] them into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 2 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 3 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 4 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 5 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 6 | It broke the concentration of my players and led them into serious defensive errors . |
| 7 | A good friend of mine , in the same set for physics and chemistry , grew so disturbed that he took some scissors and cut all round the stiff white collars , which we have to wear on Sundays , and made them into little points . " |
| 8 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 9 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 10 | Despenser , made chamberlain of the king 's household in the autumn of 1318 , was son of an old servant of the king who was also called Hugh , but the young man was greedy and tactless on a scale which surpassed Gaveston and alarmed and alienated particularly the lords of the Welsh Marches ( where he laid claim to extensive lands ) and drove them into uneasy alliance with Lancaster . |
| 11 | He took nasty live people , and turned them into nice dead ones . |
| 12 | Ivy grew around the columns left between doorways and windows , and turned them into foliated columns . |
| 13 | Some dealers in either social camp will risk account-trading for themselves , often in tens of thousands of pounds , as a result of an Harvard Securities PLC , 95 Southwark Street , London SE1 which has taken people off the streets and turned them into high earning dealers , sometimes within weeks . |
| 14 | What is not disputed , however , is that their current degree of refinement and decorative panache is primarily the result of the skill and artistry of the 16th and 17th-century Persian weavers and designers , who took a number of hitherto rather simple motifs and compositions and turned them into some of the most beautiful , elaborate and awe-inspiring examples of textile art the world has ever known . |
| 15 | This was not only because , in Walton 's words , his poems ‘ had comforted and raised many disjected and discomposed souls and charmed them into sweet and quiet thoughts ’ ; he was honoured too for his loyalty to the middle way between the excesses of Rome and the austerities of the Puritans , which he expressed with such affection in his poem ‘ The British Church ’ : |
| 16 | Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth . |
| 17 | Poets had found their way over ( and sometimes back , to tell the tale ) ; so had a good number of priests over the centuries , and hermits , meditating on their essence so hard the In Ovo enveloped them and spat them into another world . |
| 18 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 19 | At the Westminster election of 1698 , for example , 300 horsemen who were in the service of the Court Whigs , James Vernon and Charles Montagu , charged at their opponents in Tothill fields , and cudgelled them into nearby ditches . |
| 20 | He brought the dollars back to Jamaica and converted them into Jamaican dollars at the black market rate . |
| 21 | The initial reason must have been Protestant fears of what Henri II , using his daughter-in-law , might do after the treaty of Chateau-Cambrèsis ; the public Protestant call to arms and the private and tentative contact with England were part of the same desperate reaction to a situation which left the Protestants no more time to move slowly , and forced them into overt action against the regent — the representative of legitimate authority — and , perhaps , a covert move against her daughter — the legitimate authority . |
| 22 | In the ten ‘ three-way ’ marginals — in which they were the main challengers just ahead of Labour — Labour won one ( Cambridge ) and pushed them into third place in another seven . |
| 23 | It was nerve-racking , having him watch her as she slid her feet out of bed , and pushed them into soft mules . |