Example sentences of "me into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lead me into a room and I could pick them out for you . |
| 2 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 3 | A Reception lady showed me into a tiny broadcasting room full of switched-off microphones . |
| 4 | He led me into a corridor . |
| 5 | The wind screaming and the rain lashing on the windows sent me into a reverie . |
| 6 | Their company seemed to drain me and send me into a state of nervous exhaustion after even a short while . |
| 7 | As for the merits of the original illustrations as works of art , to my own taste at least the first impressions were of a certain period quality — with Wade 's occasional curvaceous nudes and sports car profiles intruded into the abstract geometries bringing memories of Victor Vasarely 's more lamentable lapses into commercial vulgarity , In the end , however , Wade 's sheer enthusiasm and invention persuaded me into a renewed fascination . |
| 8 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 9 | All this time he was propelling me into a little room near the front door , and I was absolutely stiff with fright . |
| 10 | It has , for example , turned me into a complete Danny Baker fan . |
| 11 | ‘ I was walking home from school and a masked man grabbed me and hauled me into a car . |
| 12 | When I got to the house Ted was singing a pub song and he practically bundled me into a cupboard to discuss his favourite subject — Dad . |
| 13 | He is in the hall at this moment ’ , sends me into a panic not milder certainly than any I have ever felt in all the catastrophes of War and Peace . |
| 14 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 15 | They eagerly embraced me into a family rich with eccentric aunts , brainy brothers , cranky grannies and caustic uncles , and the day they began referring to me as ‘ our Lynne ’ was the happiest day of my life . |
| 16 | After she had made me into a clown , she laughed in a very satisfied way . |
| 17 | The best I could do would be to say ‘ I like peaches better ’ , but quite apart from the logical objection to deriving ‘ Choose the peach ’ from this psychological statement , reliance on a generalization about my preference could get me into a habit which would dim my awareness of the tastes , until I fail to notice that I no longer like peaches as much as I did , or that at this moment I hanker after a pear , so that the abortive try at rationalization would make my choice less intelligent . |
| 18 | IT ALWAYS used to be Chrismuzak — the sound of synthesised carols in stores and malls — that turned me into a Scrooge . |
| 19 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 20 | Ten painful operations to turn me into a picture |
| 21 | I 'm a second-year witch at the school , and this beastly girl called Ethel Hallow has changed me into a frog and I was — ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Ethel turned me into a frog and that 's where I 've been for the last day , and it was her fault . |
| 23 | Invade my space , compact my disc , shrink my knob and turn me into a blue hedgity-hog . |
| 24 | One day he came up behind me and pushed me into a metal locker . |
| 25 | There is nothing that is infinitely irresistible nor that is truly immovable , and as for the idea of a ‘ substance impossible to contain' — that , I decided , was a fiendish invention designed to get me into a muddle as I was sure that such a substance would be a manifest impossibility in practice . |
| 26 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 27 | Being forcibly confined with other blind girls in a school which thought it was a public school soon turned me into a staunchly outspoken socialist . |
| 28 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 29 | Later , two men took me into a corner and fired questions at me for what seemed like ages , but can only have been about half an hour . |
| 30 | But it just got me into a lot of fights , that 's all . |