Example sentences of "of [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But somehow that mistake sort of propelled me into an approach which is still very significant to what I do . |
| 2 | But even in Britain and France new ways of mobilising these savings , of channelling them into the required enterprises , of organising joint-stock rather than privately financed activities , had to be devised . |
| 3 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 4 | It is up to social workers and the legal system to find ways of supporting rather than hindering parents and children in the difficult task of building themselves into a new family . |
| 5 | But here they are , at the start of chapter 16 , wishing aloud that God had not passed them by on that dreadful night in Egypt , accusing Moses , accusing Moses , of bringing them into the desert to die ! |
| 6 | I suppose the trouble is yeah if you do push , if you do go for that the other side cos you just sort of push them into the |
| 7 | If you are well practised in a careful approach , having learned the art of blending yourself into the background and moving with the silence and stealth of a hungry alley-cat , then you will soon be close enough to identify them as chub . |
| 8 | Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all |
| 9 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 10 | Plainly , individual journalists have individual styles but ultimately they have to turn the result of meeting you into the type of article their publication requires . |
| 11 | Now if you know that somebody is a drug addict and they 've just had an injection you keep away from them , erm if they 're having a bad trip , whatever they call it , because you do n't , they become very violent , they can do a lot of damage , now the only time you will step in and help is when they go unconscious , but at the same time remember protect yourself , we 're talking about needles here and probably shared needles , you must be terribly careful that you do not get pricked by a needle , especially if , they have a habit of sticking needles under lapels , so always be aware of this , if a person is a drug addict , in fact if you can find some easier way of turning them into the recovery position , do so , erm , you can then obviously either call the ambulance . |
| 12 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 13 | The party bureaucrats were accused of turning themselves into a new bourgeoisie whose revolutionary spirit had given way to capitalist tendencies . |
| 14 | For those who ‘ liked a job to do ’ there was the distribution of food and clothing and fuel , and there were some who did it honestly and others who were suspected of turning it into a ‘ racket ’ . |
| 15 | We had a really tight budget and we feared the cost of turning it into a home was way beyond our means . |
| 16 | Parish calls it ‘ a love story that just goes through a few crazy things ’ , but he 's under selling it ; Time Warner so liked the film it is thinking of turning it into a TV series with Parrish in the starring role . |
| 17 | There 's been talk on the council of turning it into a swimming pool , but they ca n't afford it . |
| 18 | They bought the building two years ago with the intention of turning it into an exhibition space for cultural exchanges between Europe ( mainly France ) and Japan . |
| 19 | ‘ Nothing , but you 're in danger of turning it into an art form . |
| 20 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 21 | Right form the start they get the club into the wrong position , meaning they have no hope of getting it into a good position afterwards . |
| 22 | But even if they did not , the style demanded players of exceptional calibre — who were becoming increasingly rare — and a manager capable of moulding them into an effective outfit ; in this no one measured up to Chapman . |
| 23 | But er we found a pair of jeans er and having made sure that the jeans were empty of anything , er we sort of shuffled himself into the jeans a he lay down and we pulled , I I pulled the jeans up . |
| 24 | ‘ The idea of stuffing everything into a pig 's stomach put me right off . ’ |
| 25 | Peter Mandelson , Patricia Hewitt and a number of other Fabian commentators could have behaved more courteously by addressing the Liberal Democrats by their full name instead of calling them Liberals ; Tony Blair could have had the courage to name them at all , instead of subsuming them into a vague phrase about building common cause with other parties ‘ around the world ’ . |
| 26 | The mind has the power of distending itself into the future by means of anticipation and the past by means of memory . |
| 27 | So for example when I 've given a pint of blood instead of giving it into a plastic bag with sodium citrate to stop it clotting I 've actually given into a plain glass bottle and when I asked what this for the erm transfusion nurse said that they 're going to let the red cells all clot together at the bottom and use the serum that was left for blood grouping purposes which of course is very important . |
| 28 | ‘ Rule 2 : Where there is a contract for the sale of specific goods and the seller is bound to do something to the goods , for the purpose of putting them into a deliverable state , the property does not pass until the thing is done , and the buyer has notice that it has been done . ’ |
| 29 | misfortune , and yet , and yet the cost of putting them into a bed and breakfast would stop those people 's houses going on the market and it would stop those people who are benefitting from it , from benefitting from it |
| 30 | Until you know someone , you should beware of putting yourself into a position where you may be trapped , pestered , or embarrassed . |