Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 2 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 3 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 4 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 5 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 6 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 7 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 8 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 9 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 10 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 11 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 12 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 13 | Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause . |
| 14 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 15 | I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure . |
| 16 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 17 | Clare helped her into a black car that stood by the kerb with its door open . |
| 18 | Colleague Evelyn Cookson and a stranger hoisted Tammy to her feet and helped her into a waiting ambulance . |
| 19 | The legislation transformed it into a new central bank and introduced a new tier of commercial banks and other lending institutions . |
| 20 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 21 | The court heard Pinnell , now of Halsway Cottage , Crowcombe , Taunton , Somerset , had taken the car on several occasions but on the last one crashed it into a dry stone wall . |
| 22 | I had hardly had time to consider this problem : rip P J O'Rourke off , or get dressed , before the pilot jerked us into a vertical dive ? |
| 23 | Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes . |
| 24 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 25 | Still , the pain of the bite , like white-hot tongs , drove him into a new fury ; battering fists , to again fell Anton . |
| 26 | The lift came to a halt and Roman practically lifted her into a quiet corridor with only one door opening from it . |
| 27 | She dressed in black trousers and a white blouse with long full sleeves , brushed her hair till it shone and twisted it into a tight knot on top of her head , thinking with satisfaction that Roman would n't like it but she was n't about to let him dictate how she wore her hair , or dressed . |
| 28 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 29 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |
| 30 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |