Example sentences of "[verb] me into the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 2 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 3 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 4 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 5 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 6 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 7 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 8 | ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house . |
| 9 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 10 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 11 | I thought he would slide me into the strait-jacket right away . |
| 12 | He pulled me into the tiny kitchen . |
| 13 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , towing me into the tall bracken . |
| 14 | When Jean-Claude emerged from the hide-out , he held out his arm and dragged me into the dark cave . |
| 15 | As he 's said of his ill-fated time at Virgin Records , ‘ I had to keep telling people they 're not going to make me into the next Sting . ’ |
| 16 | I ran across one the other day that lifted me up on wings of heady prose , only to plunge me into the deep end of bathos . |
| 17 | By forcing me to take part in rituals that were scientifically formulated the psychiatrist had logically inverted the magical process whereby my original eidetic memory had ripped the meniscus , thrusting me into the noumenal world . |