Example sentences of "[to-vb] they into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The snow would certainly invade the tops of her boots when she stepped out of the car , and she swore softly in Ruthenian as she retrieved the groceries from the floor of the car and turned to carry them into the house . |
2 | From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner . |
3 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
4 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
5 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |
6 | Would it be best to pull them into the alley ? |
7 | You do have people from both sexes , of equal abilities and potential strengths , and it would be possible at that stage to have a training pool of people , which perhaps , er redress the balance , and perhaps er gradually have available many people , but you can only do that , if people come forward without skills that you need in order to train them into the jobs . |
8 | They all looked blowsy , lipsticky and desperate , locked in a fight with a life set to trample them into the barroom floor , a series of no-account boyfriends too free with their fists and guns , and an incipient obesity that would limit their later careers to shrill mother roles . |
9 | ‘ We think that the products coming out of this factory are of such a standard and quality that there is a very good potential to sell them into the market , ’ he said . |
10 | Tory planners think the Labour party is talking up a May or June poll , trying to bounce them into an election while interest rates are still high . |
11 | They grow up unbalanced , and need only minor frustrations or the stimulus of pornography to tip them into an orgy of violence against women and girls . |
12 | Do you know we had bales of , bales of til tins all pressed together as big as that machine , yeah and they 'd dump into the ship and they used to have magnets , put 'em into a net and these er bales of tins , any old tins , they used to find , used to go in there , we used to tip 'em , we used to tip them into the hold they cut the ship right up and that that 's what we 're getting back in motor cars now . |
13 | His knowledge of classical music was very comprehensive — you only had to sing him a snatch of any symphony or concerto and he would be able to identify it immediately , but this is n't sufficient to get you up there in front of a hundred or more qualified musicians and be able to lead them into the opening bars of Beethoven 's 5th , or even the Warsaw Concerto . |
14 | The method of scoring products on the two axes in order to fit them into the matrix is that of multi-dimensional screening , taking into account the attributes of the competition as well as the two dimensions already mentioned . |
15 | If the newcomers have fairly extreme opinions , some towards the Right and some towards the Left , it will be more difficult for the select committee atmosphere to mould them into a team upholding the legislature as opposed to the government of the day . |
16 | You must also remember to press some of the other parts of the roses , such as the sepals and perhaps even the centres , as these will prove to be useful later on when you come to reassemble them into a design . |
17 | Similarly , the Hungarians became the principal external threat to the Christianized Germanic peoples of Europe in the late ninth and tenth centuries , particularly in conjunction with the Slavs ; and after the former 's defeat and settlement on the Middle Danube , it was a natural instinct of the Saxon rulers to draw them into the orbit of western Christian kingdoms . |
18 | Far better to draw them into the school to nip things in the bud than leave them to ferment discontent . |
19 | This makes it difficult to incorporate them into a colour scheme , although a well-pressed orchid can look very effective as the centrepiece of a design if surrounded by flowers of complementary colours . |
20 | Burma 's generals have condemned the laureates ' mission as interference and refused to let them into the country . |
21 | ‘ But we do n't want him just to put them into a cupboard ? ’ |
22 | And he used to put them into the oven while it was still hot to bake for him used to pick them up on our way home from school . |
23 | It is thought that , because bacteria are so tiny , the Earth 's gravity has little effect on them and they need their miniature magnets to guide them into the sediment . |
24 | I offer to book them into the hotel , owned by an airline , which carries on a heroic but losing battle for French standards . |
25 | In some of the odes , this compositional method has a wayward look , perhaps leaving the modern reader with the suspicion that the poem is structurally flawed.1 It is not particularly troublesome in " Diffugere nives " ; even so , there are throughout the poem points at which a reader needs to take connections on trust , or ventures to read them into the text , because they are not foregrounded or overtly articulated . |
26 | To do this requires some ability to acknowledge and manage one 's own infantile feelings rather than inflexibly to project them into the other . |
27 | And not even an air raid warning to send them into the cellars . |
28 | Some people find it helpful to listen to the noises and to try to be selective , to turn them into a tune or a rhythm . |
29 | Each set of notes came with an attached exercise and at his behest I set to , to analyse squares of numbers , using keys to turn them into the letters that described either thaumaturgical entities , or else even the tetragrammaton itself . |
30 | ‘ You 'll have to invite them into the vicarage and try and dissuade them , and then when they 're stubborn you 'll have to elaborate on the Christian concept of matrimony . ’ |