Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . " |
| 2 | Now that those people have run up those enormous debts , where are the Labour Members of Parliament who led them into that position ? |
| 3 | My new project led me into unexplored realms of psychology which I might otherwise have ignored . |
| 4 | And last night it got me into hot water . |
| 5 | You got me into this mess . |
| 6 | It was drink that got me into this mess . |
| 7 | This got me into some problems too with a chap in Braigh who was very fond of black Polled cattle . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 11 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 12 | He took a group of young boys and monitored their play , divided them into three groups and showed each group one of three scenarios and then monitored them again . |
| 13 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 14 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 15 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |
| 16 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 17 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 18 | That left seven , easily outnumbered by Boscawen 's 15 , plus frigates , and he used his superiority to crushing effect in an action which began around 1.30 pm and continued next day , when the last four French ships were driven into Lagos Bay , about 19 miles [ 30 km ] east of Cape St Vincent , on the coast of Portugal , where Boscawen pursued them into Portuguese waters . |
| 19 | He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him . |
| 20 | Miller jerked himself into some sort of alert state as they approached , smiling glassily . |
| 21 | She cast herself into heated ovens or boiling cauldrons , was immersed in the freezing waters of a mill-race in winter and hunted by a pack of dogs through thorny thickets . |
| 22 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 23 | Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest . |
| 24 | His position , both in the City and at the Tower , impelled him into political controversy , particularly during the exclusion crisis , when he was accused of suppressing information on the Popish Plot , and when his removal was demanded by the House of Lords and his conduct inquired into by the House of Commons . |
| 25 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
| 26 | The large noble estates , sometimes helped by injections of finance from the compensation payments for the loss of labour services , transformed themselves into capitalist undertakings . |
| 27 | At one time , people thought that birds transformed themselves into other creatures during the winter . |
| 28 | ' I understand that Daniele Miletti got himself into some trouble with your section some time ago . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | The CNAA was a marvellous learning process which … drove me into intimate contact with a wide range of higher education courses , in dance primarily , which taught me the criteria for judging dance as a higher education subject … |