Example sentences of "[vb past] them 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Buddhist-managed Lakrivikirana divided them into two categories . |
| 6 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was Mr Gorbachev , after all , who got them into this mess . |
| 9 | Stockport 's second victory in four days at Edgeley Park moved them into second position in the Fourth Division . |
| 10 | The Mayan peasants worked the plantations as debt slaves , until Mexico 's revolution transformed them into collective farmers . |
| 11 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 12 | We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Oxford 's two-one win at home to Peterborough lifted them into sixteenth place in the First Division . |
| 17 | Gunners boss George Graham refused to get carried away with his side 's fifth successive League victory , which lifted them into third place . |
| 18 | On the Sunday I met my parents and , courtesy of Jack , handed over sponsor 's tickets which allowed them into any part of the course and the clubhouse and also provided tickets for lunch . |
| 19 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
| 20 | Ivy grew around the columns left between doorways and windows , and turned them into foliated columns . |
| 21 | When the messages were decoded they emerged as apparently meaningless blocks of letters , and these were passed on to the linguists in Hut 3 who turned them into intelligible German . |
| 22 | The British secret service came up with a a stroke of some genius when the stopped having our operatives shot when they caught them and simply turned them into double agents . ’ |
| 23 | In her book Beautiful Theories , the late Elizabeth Bruss made a revealing examination of the way in which Barthes 's different translators carried out their task ; she shows that whereas Heath did not disguise the difficulty and opacity in Barthes 's texts , his American translators turned them into smooth narratives . |
| 24 | I called them into this room and spoke to them . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | It declared them educable , took them out of their own homes and hospitals and brought them into full-time schooling . |
| 27 | Plans for their future brought them into political contact with enemies of the ninth electorate which led first to the secret murder of Königsmarck in 1694 , with the connivance of Ernst August , and later to Sophia Dorothea 's confinement in her father 's keeping at the palace of Ahlden , following her divorce from Georg Ludwig in 1694 , which carried the rider that she could not remarry . |
| 28 | This brought them into hostile contact with some of their neighbours , especially with the counts of Armagnac . |
| 29 | They were also in the business of wiring installations for consumers ( in houses , factories , schools , offices , shops ) beyond the mains terminals , and this brought them into direct competition with the 7500 , usually small , independent electrical contractors . |
| 30 | 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 . |