Example sentences of "and [vb past] it into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 2 | He placed the beings , pictured as animals , in a belt embracing the known universe , and divided it into the twelve equal houses of the zodiac ( Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Sagittarius , Scorpio , Capricorn , Aquarius and Pisces ) . |
| 3 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 4 | Beggars ca n't be choosers though , he thought philosophically as he got up , removed the boiling kettle from the gas ring and emptied it into a small china teapot . |
| 5 | And she picked up the plate of spurned buck rarebit and emptied it into the bin under the counter . |
| 6 | Once home , I tentatively lifted the bag and lowered it into the tank to acclimatise the fish . |
| 7 | He took the ladder and slung it into the snow-covered bushes . |
| 8 | The Nazis took it over during the Second World War and made it into a museum of the German Army . |
| 9 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 10 | He organised my stag weekend last year and made it into a memorable one . |
| 11 | But he left to take on the run-down Staffordshire country house called Alton Towers and made it into a top leisure and theme park . |
| 12 | And it was like , nothing , so we just extended all this out and made it into a stage come , a bigger dance floor cos the I do n't know why they wa always seem to have this trends that , they have these trends in the seventies and that was , and eighties of having small dance floors |
| 13 | Harvey took off his identity tag and inserted it into a machine like a railway station weighing machine upon which he stepped . |
| 14 | The farmer was silent as I soaped my arm and inserted it into the cow . |
| 15 | In the circumstances , he made a fair pass at the ball and got it into a reasonable spot about fifteen yards short of the edge of the green and about thirty yards from the hole . |
| 16 | He picked up a stone and flung it into the horse pond . |
| 17 | ‘ Good morning , ’ she answered grudgingly as she hastily unpegged her washing and flung it into the laundry basket at her feet . |
| 18 | She made a grab for her shirt but Felipe took it from her and flung it into the back . |
| 19 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 20 | It was an old town , its wealth based on brewing before the Second World War came along and transformed it into a steel and munitions centre . |
| 21 | It was he who curbed my youthful lust and transformed it into a longing for spiritual embrace . |
| 22 | This house was run down until the owner completely renovated it and redecorated inside and out , and transformed it into an impressive home |
| 23 | He told her ; and he watched suspiciously as she glanced at the sheet of instructions , set the timer and plugged it into the power point that controlled the standard lamp . |
| 24 | She located the air supply tap , pulled a tube from the back of her suit and plugged it into the tap : there was no point in using the suit 's air and batteries while she could draw air from the shuttle 's recyclers . |
| 25 | That used to be a completely different tune ; I had the lyrics , but I played it on an open tuned National , then when I got the Strat and plugged it into an old Fender Vibrolux amp , it became what it became on record . |
| 26 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 27 | When she told her friends about it ( ‘ My dears , he took a garden vegetable and changed it into a bird in front of my eyes ! ’ ) , her friends realized that she also had a wonderful imagination . |
| 28 | In 1974 , the fire brigade moved into new premises , rendering the existing building useless — so the local district council bought it for £36,000 and changed it into the block of 10 flats for elderly people . |
| 29 | ‘ He said he lost control of the truck within seconds and crashed it into a tree . |
| 30 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |