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 . |