Example sentences of "[verb] her into a [adj] [noun sg] " 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 She was a walking weapon already , but Seth had only made her into a rough flint axe .
7 as if her skin were too tight for her , as if a tornado were spinning inside her , whirling her into a silent frenzy .
8 Urging her into a fast walk , he hurried her across a courtyard and into the craft shop .
9 ‘ We will eat first , ’ Lubor smiled , parking his car and escorting her into a smart hotel .
10 The lift came to a halt and Roman practically lifted her into a quiet corridor with only one door opening from it .
11 SIX people accused of kidnapping a teenage girl and turning her into a human torch appeared in court yesterday .
12 Now he was turning her into a stammering schoolgirl !
13 He showed her into a comfortable room complete with wallscreen , soft lighting and floor cushions .
14 Amy 's experiences turned her into a radical activist as a teenager .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 As Jelka watched , the men subdued her , forcing her into a padded jacket , the over-long arms of which they fastened at the back .
18 Forcing her into a loveless marriage the same way he 's forcing you pair into marrying the Costello sisters .
19 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 .
20 He turned abruptly away now , saying , ‘ Take my advice , Aggie , get her into a closed school . ’
21 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 .
22 He beckoned her into a high-ceilinged room with a marble floor covered with rush mats .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 The wine — had she really allowed it to dim all her common sense , lull her into a false sense of security ?
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 A mother who has put her daughter on the stage and made her into a teenage star is obviously aware that she is moulding something special .
29 She could be matched to any of four performers in the floorshow ; Josie was n't sure why , but it was as if her teenager 's skin and certain odd , somehow held-back elements of her personality made her into a blank sheet onto which anything could be drawn .
30 The same indifference reigned in August 1910 , when Japan annexed Korea , transforming her into a fully-fledged colony .
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