Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] into [num] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods .
3 They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots .
4 Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles .
5 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 .
6 So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in .
7 They then measured the distance between Hartwell and Roade Station and divided it into three equal parts .
8 We identified the postcode areas of patients and categorised them into three groups — namely , urban , rural , or mixed .
9 Leni came back with the coffee and poured it into two non-matching teacups .
10 A shift in viewpoint , not in technology , totally changed the economics of ocean shipping and turned it into one of the major growth industries of the last 20 to 30 years .
11 Jane Melvin came to the New Inn at Pembridge in Herefordshire in 1984 , and turned it into one of the most popular country pubs in the county .
12 As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 .
13 He wadded the money up tight and shoved it into one of the pouches on his Sam Browne belt .
14 She grabbed the French loaf and wrenched it into two unequal halves .
15 We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish .
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