Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 2 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 3 | People whose parents baptised them into the Roman Catholic Church will probably be counted as Catholics all their lives — even if they never go to church ; for people to be counted as Baptists , however , they will have to have expressed a strong commitment to their faith and to have undergone adult baptism . |
| 4 | The families along the river were closely related and inter-marriage had fused them into a larger unit . |
| 5 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 6 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 7 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 8 | In her present fragile state , an inquisition , no matter how well-intentioned , would have shattered her into a million pieces . |
| 9 | Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid . |
| 10 | ‘ Cypress Hill are smoking funk , and they 've rolled it into a fat album featuring ‘ How I Could Just Kill A Man ’ and ‘ Hand On The Pump ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 12 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 13 | It has , for example , turned me into a complete Danny Baker fan . |
| 14 | ‘ I think , ’ she said , deliberately lowering the tone of her voice , which was bordering on the hysterical , ‘ that something happened to you in the past , you loved someone else , and it 's turned you into a bitter man . |
| 15 | It 's turned you into a human being yet ? |
| 16 | She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe . |
| 17 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 18 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 19 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 20 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 21 | Something I do n't understand turned her into a neurotic depressed agoraphobic . |
| 22 | ‘ She 's turned her into a proper little snob ! ’ |
| 23 | Doc Threadneedle had turned her into a human perpetual motion machine , like one of those dipping birds her father had bought her as a child . |
| 24 | Ken Russell took the removal of restraint and stiff-upper-lip repression that American finance had encouraged and turned it into a distinctive aesthetic style . |
| 25 | Yes , it 's not , they 've turned it into a total university trained job erm , people have n't given award . |
| 26 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 27 | In Manchester the handover has allowed it to offload heavy costs such as bridge maintenance , while in Sheffield the running of the tram system into British Midland 's station has turned it into a major transport terminus , which includes buses . |
| 28 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 29 | If Knightshayes had been a really fine Victorian garden , you 'd have had to keep it as it was , but we 've turned it into a twentieth-century garden and that 's what the Trust has taken . |
| 30 | 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 . |