Example sentences of "be [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DJs are whipping them into a frenzy of anticipation from a stage perched above the masses . |
| 2 | His rousing address finished with the exciting claim that ‘ IBM has been transforming itself into a solutions company ’ . |
| 3 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 4 | Oh you want to walk on that , oh Charlotte come on then , you 're pushing me into the road . |
| 5 | If you 're lying in bed trying to go to sleep and you 're screwing yourself into a ball of self-disgust , you 're gon na find the sheets get colder and your limbs get stiffer , and if you do n't break the mood you 'd be better out of bed . |
| 6 | So you 're ploughing everything into the business at this moment |
| 7 | It 's all going to it er , they 're putting it into a ma massive voice bank . |
| 8 | They wo n't take any notice of us , Baptiste said : the ambulance is round the front , I saw it , and they 're carrying him into the downstairs bit . |
| 9 | You 're working yourself into a state . |
| 10 | Even as the guards are ushering them into the corridor , the carriage rolls into an immense echoing workshop . |
| 11 | ‘ Now you are forcing me into the most obvious remark of the week : I only do what I want — within our poor human limits . |
| 12 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 13 | Campese , scorer of a record 51 Test tries , the most recent against Ireland last weekend , had second thoughts about taking his World Cup winners ' medal into retirement , despite his claim that rugby players are running themselves into the ground . |
| 14 | His original intention had been to convert it into a school for Reich SS leaders , but by the time the architects and builders had finished and many millions of marks had been spent , he had created a Gothic monstrosity worthy of stage six at MGM , a vast film set of the kind Hollywood was fond of when historical pictures were the vogue . |
| 15 | The distribution of these consonants would be rather limited , but the main problem would be fitting them into the pattern of syllable structure . |
| 16 | She had not stopped to think that she might be inserting herself into a social scene that she had walked away from when she had left home . |
| 17 | My aim would be to fit myself into the game unobtrusively … |
| 18 | Any moment now , Judi would be turning them into a Jury , appealing for their verdict on the Nielsen family . |
| 19 | Another minute and I 'll be inviting you into the back of the car . ’ |
| 20 | The longer they had in order to establish this bit of coast as an aristocratic retreat , the easier it would be to turn it into a fashionable resort when time and money offered . |
| 21 | While 4 glasses of wine is considered safe , more than that could be taking you into the danger area of getting cirrhosis of the liver . |
| 22 | I would n't put it past him to be slipping something into the juice when nobody 's looking . |
| 23 | We shall not be throwing everything into the air and rewriting systems that already work satisfactorily . |
| 24 | ‘ Could Hitler be lulling us into a false sense of security ? ’ |
| 25 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 26 | They are making me into an addict , so that I may never leave home … . |
| 27 | ‘ We are talking ourselves into a fine slough ! |
| 28 | In the Eastern District of the Association , I know , you are behaving as though the idea were a brand-new one ; and with something of the enthusiasm of your founder-members you are carrying it into the countryside . |
| 29 | And there we are putting it into a three or four year old 's hand something that 's erm got that sort of temperature round it . |
| 30 | Of course , the easiest thing to do would have been to change someone into a frog or snail or some other small creature which could easily be kept hidden in a box until she returned . |