Example sentences of "and [v-ing] [pron] into [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | It is not necessarily a soft option to tame wild animals , for to do so involves understanding their nature , being at one with it and drawing it into new forms of behaviour . |
| 2 | The Soviet statistics were terribly messy and scattered all over the place but Davies and Barker finally succeeded in teasing them out and knocking them into some sort of shape . |
| 3 | Thereafter , re-modularisation can take place systematically , by booking out the necessary modules and reconstituting them into new modules as required . |
| 4 | It begins with a human circle , linked by the little fingers , swaying and chanting themselves into deep trance with the eyes closed . |
| 5 | However , while it was comparatively easy to cobble together a story around a popular star , the British industry was not yet well organized when it came to finding a steady output of ideas for dramatic features and developing them into workable scripts . |
| 6 | His government has had considerable success in winning over guerrilla field commanders and turning them into semi-autonomous militias with lavish handouts of money and arms . |
| 7 | ‘ No , ’ she moaned in a fever against the side of his dark head , ‘ do n't ; I do n't want — ’ Then his mouth covered her own again , cutting off her protests and turning them into stifled , half-broken cries . |
| 8 | ‘ It works by cooling the liquid slag with a water jet and turning it into granulated slag . |
| 9 | The CRE was recently refused government funding of £140,000 to continue research into a method of extracting carbon dioxide produced by power stations and pumping it into depleted North Sea oil and gas wells , neutralising its environmental impact . |
| 10 | I would like to suggest that you take a piece of paper and rule it as follows ( see table on page 184 ) , including the headings Short Term , Long Term and Ultimate Goals , and separating them into two sections — Tangible and Intangible . |
| 11 | A couple of inmates were collecting fallen leaves and stuffing them into black bags . |
| 12 | Unarmed combat is basically the quickest way of attacking somebody and grinding them into little pieces before moving on to your next victim . ) |
| 13 | But , the lessons are more subtle than the direct borrowing of the approach and importing it into different service sectors . |
| 14 | a special kind of scanner which provides a means of reading printed characters on documents and converting them into digital codes that can be read into a computer as actual text rather than just a picture . |
| 15 | Knowledge Adventure is very good at throwing out nuggets of information , and placing them into some sort of context . |
| 16 | You realise how subtle it is when you watch a beaver painstakingly placing a pole on its dam , being visibly dissatisfied with its position , removing it and tugging it into another , until it is at last convinced that it has been effectively deployed . |
| 17 | Taking the period 1979 — 85 , and dividing it into two parts , we find that in the years since 1983 the differences in surviving birth of infants born to parents in social class 1 , compared to those whose parents are in social classes IV and V , has widened . |
| 18 | This nanny worked in the big brewery down Manchester Road , capping the bottles and loading them into wooden crates . |
| 19 | Immediately beside him Kegan was fussing with sheets of paper , arranging and rearranging them into neat aligned squares . |
| 20 | Grant had time only to register the knowledge that he had lost the unequal contest , and with it his life , before the final hiraken knuckle-blow landed , breaking his nose and cheekbones , and smashing him into bloody oblivion . |
| 21 | The clowning begins right from the start , with him snatching up the Sony the minute it 's on the table , talking into it conspiratorially for the next hour in his trademark , Looney Toons drawl , playing dumb , hijacking questions and spinning them into semantic hyperspace , treating any attempt at conversation as one big word association game ( ’ No , I 'm not a geek ; I 'm a geek orthodox ’ ) . |
| 22 | After he had eaten he lit a small oil lamp to dispel the gathering gloom , and by its light fought off the silence by indulging in some desultory tidying , which consisted of gathering together assorted scrolls of papyrus and articles of clothing scattered about , and dumping them into two chests — one for each . |