Example sentences of "[vb past] it into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 2 | He hooked it into the bunker on the left of the green . |
| 3 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 4 | I kept the piece of paper and , after I returned home and thought more about the episode , I transformed it into a poem . |
| 5 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 6 | The ‘ industrialization ’ of the press ( see also pp. 67 — 78 ) transformed it into a commodity and an industrial product . |
| 7 | She located the air supply tap , pulled a tube from the back of her suit and plugged it into the tap : there was no point in using the suit 's air and batteries while she could draw air from the shuttle 's recyclers . |
| 8 | He told her ; and he watched suspiciously as she glanced at the sheet of instructions , set the timer and plugged it into the power point that controlled the standard lamp . |
| 9 | ‘ He said he lost control of the truck within seconds and crashed it into a tree . |
| 10 | It 'll slide on ca I mean I moved it into the corner so that erm |
| 11 | Quickly they built it into a pyramid over the torch . |
| 12 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 13 | And then when he gave it up when his wife died , he stopped it then and they changed it into the West Mainland Horse Breeding Society . |
| 14 | In 1974 , the fire brigade moved into new premises , rendering the existing building useless — so the local district council bought it for £36,000 and changed it into the block of 10 flats for elderly people . |
| 15 | This is a rather strange piece of behaviour , which gave rise in the l9th century to the belief that the female cuckoo swallowed her egg after laying it and then regurgitated it into the host 's nest . |
| 16 | After the door closed , a pudgy hand picked up the videotape gingerly as if it were a dead bird and , pausing for a moment so that the viewer could read ‘ GOVERNMENT DRUGS SCANDAL ’ , dropped it into a wastepaper bin . |
| 17 | ‘ When we played my school a bloke managed to wangle some dry ice from work and he dropped it into a bucketful of warm water . |
| 18 | Monks tied the locket to a heavy weight and dropped it into the water . |
| 19 | Sealing an envelope , she dropped it into the basket of outgoing mail . |
| 20 | I dried off the needle and dropped it into the metal box where I carried my suture materials , scalpels and blades . |
| 21 | She screwed up the letter and dropped it into the kitchen bin . |
| 22 | He waved out the match , gazed at it thoughtfully for a moment , dropped it into the ashtray and then looked at Herr Nordern . |
| 23 | She brought hot water and watched as he unwrapped a sachet and dropped it into the cup . |
| 24 | Kirov held it by one comer , wiped it with his sleeve , and dropped it into the post box . |
| 25 | And with that thought , she wrung out her dress , and flopped it into the basket that Sabina had already filled with a heap of the family 's washing . |
| 26 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 27 | Lucie threw down the cup he was holding and drove it into the mud with his foot . |
| 28 | Without a word , he took the staff I 'd been using , drove it into the ground with his sledge hammer , secured it with guy ropes and tied a washing line for me from it to the Land Rover . |
| 29 | She caught hold of the cart tail as Jotan drove it into the mouth of the tunnel . |
| 30 | She drove it into the side of his head as hard as she could , hearing a crack as she smashed his temporal bone . |