Example sentences of "was [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 2 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 3 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 4 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 5 | He guessed rightly that little Didier Bluot was leading me into the cemetery and would direct me to Montaine 's grave . |
| 6 | One of them was that the nurse , robbed of her pleasure in subduing the hair , turned her savagery more directly on to Harriet and once in a temper broke both of her charge 's thumbs when she was forcing her into a new pair of white kid gloves for Sunday School . |
| 7 | He needed , essentially , to become a Freeman of the City of London — and the most direct route for him , considering he had served no appropriate apprenticeship , was to buy himself into a livery company first . |
| 8 | Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl ! |
| 9 | It had been owned by the Turner family , and my aunt 's builder husband had bought it from them and was turning it into an apartment house when he was called up for service with the Army . |
| 10 | Two young women were in the room ; one was reading a magazine , the other was stuffing herself into a tight corset of black vinyl that appeared to be a part of a stylised nun 's costume . |
| 11 | Instead I was getting myself into an increasingly confrontational situation , a battle of wills , with the Director of Coaching . |
| 12 | The predominant response to Mannheim 's proposals for the sociology of knowledge in the English-speaking world was to incorporate it into the programme of ‘ scientific ’ , functionalist sociology . |
| 13 | Waste from animals was a valuable fertiliser — all you had to do was to plough it into the land . |
| 14 | He was swinging her into the sailboat , then , with a broad grin , leaping in beside her . |
| 15 | Whenever my mother and I had visited her from Štanjel , the first thing Aunt Ema always did was to call me into the larder , which was dark and cool , and give me a large spoonful of the most delicious cream from which she used to make butter , saying in the Mavhinje dialect : ‘ Take this , beautiful , because I know that you do n't like cream in your coffee . ’ |
| 16 | Patrick did n't need to be a doctor to know that his mother was drinking herself into an early grave . |
| 17 | LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ |
| 18 | The last thing he wanted was to turn himself into a do-gooder , but he realized very quickly that most of the volunteers were genuinely and sincerely opening their hearts and homes . |
| 19 | One of the worst proposals put forward for the church was to turn it into a hamburger joint , run by the restaurant chain , Garfunkels : hardly a use compatible with the dignity of a historic church . |
| 20 | This body was to turn itself into the Labour Party in 1906 . |
| 21 | Mrs Brooks ' dog was almost run over recently as she was putting her into the car . |
| 22 | Then I realized he was putting himself into the part . |
| 23 | The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being . |
| 24 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 25 | Later we were to have several talks , but when I first arrived sick and ill and my GP went through the diagnosis , his greatest concern was to get me into the hands of a good specialist which he did with the utmost speed . |
| 26 | She had opened a tin of beans , was flopping them into a saucepan at the stove . |
| 27 | She looked round swiftly to check whether the others had seen him but Conrad was pouring wine and chattering , Philippa was settling herself into the crimson beanbag , Larry was moving around in the kitchen , John was sipping his drink and testing out her rocking-chair and the lad with the twisted arm was hovering , uncomfortably . |
| 28 | A uniformed policeman had stepped out from the kerb up ahead and was waving them into a side road . |
| 29 | Doug was throwing himself into the part with relish . |
| 30 | ( c ) When she raised the question of blood transfusions the only response was to lull her into a sense of false security , both the staff nurse , in her express words , and Dr. F. in his demeanour and the obstetrics staff nurse explicitly , all sought to indicate that it did not much matter since there appeared to them to be no prospect of a blood transfusion becoming necessary . |