Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] it into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 2 | It looked as if the builder had started off with the plans of a Tudor manor house , swapped them for an Early English cathedral in mid-storey , and then suffered a total loss of confidence and tried to convert it into a Dutch barn . |
| 3 | Well , I tried to turn it into a joke — not a very good one , I admit — but I said something about that party game called consequences , you know where everyone writes down innocent things that get strung together because nobody knows what the others have written and it gets all mixed up so you get a silly story with a stupid ending . |
| 4 | The whole puzzle became even more tantalising whenever he tried to fashion it into a poem . |
| 5 | She 'd styled it into a long , fat French plait . |
| 6 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 7 | It seemed to jerk it into a sense of purpose . ’ |
| 8 | Collecting the trowel , she bent down and began stabbing it into the bigger clumps of earth to break them up . |
| 9 | Bragg rubbed the tobacco lovingly between his palms , then began to feed it into the bowl of his pipe . |
| 10 | Leo carried the pile of crockery into the kitchen and began to load it into the dishwasher . |
| 11 | The incident was not reported in the press and probably would have gone no further than the arrest and trial of the Falangist aggressors , had not protests from Generals Galarza and Varela ( who was present at the mass ) threatened to turn it into a major governmental crisis . |
| 12 | We know that Wordsworth thought highly of this entry , for he began to copy it into a notebook , and used its phrases in a fragment of poetry : |
| 13 | The citadel bacame a furniture warehouse , before it was bought by Tamara Malcom and her husband in 1973 and they applied to convert it into a theatre . |
| 14 | Lacuna took it , held it above her head , and started to slide it into the implant . |
| 15 | SIR — On coming into £40,000 I decided to put it into a trust for my grandchildren , to be paid out as each reaches the age of 24 years . |
| 16 | In1980 , the Ministry of Culture decided to convert it into a ‘ centre for modern art with contemporary outlook , to play an active role in the development of artistic life in Spain . ’ |
| 17 | Lady , a Jack Russell from Hampshire , loves travelling in her owner 's van so much that she decided to transform it into the perfect den to have her puppies . |
| 18 | A derelict piece of land nearby was due for development , but the residents decided to make it into a garden . |
| 19 | ‘ The vessel , from Bangor Marina , was half-sunk , but the Hummer and the lifeboat managed to tow it into the harbour and beach it on a mud bank , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 20 | She winced at the faint trace of disgust in his voice , but managed to turn it into a careless shrug . |
| 21 | I dashed into a record shop , begged a loan of the album , transferred it onto cassette in Dixon 's next door , sped back to the hall and managed to shove it into the system just as the chairman announced it and the audience was standing . |
| 22 | A further coat of filler is then applied , then feathered to blend it into the surrounding board |
| 23 | Bernier , in his role as imperial surgeon , did make it into the zenana complex , but was not much the wiser afterwards : |
| 24 | This was a basic Ford shooting-brake which had had the windows and roof removed to turn it into an open truck . |
| 25 | Alright , what you did n't see , and I 've talked to the man who made the video , and he tells me that in fact — as played in slow motion , it does definitely show that Martin Foyle as the ball was going goalward , got the final touch to the ball and did put it into the net , no doubt that in fact it was Foyle 's goal . |
| 26 | In fact I had it for six months and I never did plug it into an amplifier ; I just used it in the dressing room . ’ |
| 27 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 28 | By the 1950s , The Ridges was the criminal ghetto of Newcastle , and by the 1970s a costly council manicure job had turned it into a free-fire zone . |
| 29 | The assembly was dissolved in 1986 because the remaining Protestant members had turned it into a forum for opposing the Anglo-Irish Agreement signed in November 1985 . |
| 30 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |