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Example sentences of "[verb] her into a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	Lady Constance visited some suffragettes imprisoned in Holloway gaol , and this experience transformed her into a public figure with a single-minded burning cause .
2	Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto .
3	I drew her into a shadowy window embrasure .
4	Clare helped her into a black car that stood by the kerb with its door open .
5	Colleague Evelyn Cookson and a stranger hoisted Tammy to her feet and helped her into a waiting ambulance .
6	In her present fragile state , an inquisition , no matter how well-intentioned , would have shattered her into a million pieces .
7	She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe .
8	as if her skin were too tight for her , as if a tornado were spinning inside her , whirling her into a silent frenzy .
9	Urging her into a fast walk , he hurried her across a courtyard and into the craft shop .
10	‘ We will eat first , ’ Lubor smiled , parking his car and escorting her into a smart hotel .
11	The lift came to a halt and Roman practically lifted her into a quiet corridor with only one door opening from it .
12	SIX people accused of kidnapping a teenage girl and turning her into a human torch appeared in court yesterday .
13	Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl !
14	He showed her into a comfortable room complete with wallscreen , soft lighting and floor cushions .
15	Amy 's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager .
16	Notebooks in hand , they listened beside her hospital bed as she told of how her attacker stripped her , tied her hands behind her back , and turned her into a human rag doll by dumping her in a city rubbish skip .
17	Something between 60 and 100 MPs are eager to clip Mrs Thatcher 's wings by staging a show of disaffection or by forcing her into a second round when the first round votes are cast , on December 5 under the most likely timetable .
18	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 .
19	As Jelka watched , the men subdued her , forcing her into a padded jacket , the over-long arms of which they fastened at the back .
20	Forcing her into a loveless marriage the same way he 's forcing you pair into marrying the Costello sisters .
21	There 's a somewhat lighter tone to The Wicked Lady ( 1945 ) , another big hit , in which Lockwood is the aristocratic wife whose passion for living and sense that if ‘ I ca n't live while I 'm alive , I 'll go mad ’ leads her into a double life as a highwaywoman .
22	He turned abruptly away now , saying , ‘ Take my advice , Aggie , get her into a closed school . ’
23	As I get her into a fresh pair of rubber knickers I feel something cold on my face .
24	Sharpe spurred her into a clumsy gallop that made his heavy sword flap in its slings and crash its disc hilt painfully onto his left thigh .
25	He beckoned her into a high-ceilinged room with a marble floor covered with rush mats .
26	Loretta followed her into a spacious drawing-room , and seated herself in a chair to one side of the tiled fireplace , while Veronica took the chair opposite .
27	First Richard Blake had taken advantage of her innocence , seducing her into a youthful infatuation from which she had managed to free herself only just in time .
28	The wine — had she really allowed it to dim all her common sense , lull her into a false sense of security ?
29	The man half carried , half pulled her into a nearby pub , where he propped her in a Windsor chair and went to fetch water from the bar .
30	Her name was Gail Danski , a prim-looking chick , but not so prim when you got her into a dark corner , as he had once discovered when taking her home after a school dance .