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 . ’
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