Example sentences of "could [vb infin] them into " in BNC.
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1 | But even with his new London base it was impossible to gather enough talent from both his schools for the coming Christmas , so he advertised for dancers in the trade papers and took a chance that he could knock them into shape . |
2 | Banks prefer to lend short-term because their borrowing ( at least from depositors ) is short-term and changes in interest rates could lock them into long-term loans that were uneconomical . |
3 | We could beat them into submission , but if you spend time with them , and you are real gentle with them , find out what they like scratched maybe , then it 's a cinch . |
4 | The upshot , however , was that the British could buy the latest mark of Polaris missile without warheads , which they would provide themselves , and could fit them into five British-built nuclear submarine hulls . |
5 | We could cut them into lengths if we had a file . " |
6 | ‘ Secret people , ’ she said , ‘ who do not seem to have any business that could take them into the forest . ’ |
7 | She saved her curses until she could shout them into the night — then swallowed them anyway out of paranoia . |
8 | And it could push them into drug-taking , instead of away from it . |
9 | My wife asked me to dismantle an island breakfast bar , and retain the units so we could incorporate them into the existing kitchen later . |
10 | The objective of the Lausanne conference should be to encourage Kenya and its allies to emulate the conditions pertaining in the Kruger and Hwange national parks , where culling has become a necessity born out of successful conservation , rather than to encourage policies which could turn them into the run-down disaster zones Mr Leakey described . |
11 | It also means that the feral dogs are acquiring genetic material that could turn them into dangerous carnivores in grand style . |