Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] her [noun] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She waited until the car vanished round the bend then waited some more until the whine of the engine was at last lost in the distance , then she slowly made her way into the house . |
| 2 | ‘ Aaah , ’ Lucinda said again , impatiently sinking her knife into the pie crust , watching fascinated as hot brown gravy oozed out . |
| 3 | Throwing him a look of haughty disdain , she bent down to push her boots into the ski-bindings , furiously aware that he was watching her every move . |
| 4 | On their way to the station she would not throw her coin into the Trevi Fountain . |
| 5 | By 1848 Judith Holt , the diarist , had already followed her sister into the grave , at the age of forty-three ; she had failed by only one year to attain the average life span of the gentry and professional class , to which her husband belonged . |
| 6 | She was not offering her hand into the keeping of a hungry crocodile , and there was something very cold-blooded about the glitter in Mr Blake 's admittedly fascinating eyes . |
| 7 | She sat down in the chair at the head of the cot and very carefully slid her forefinger into the baby 's hand . |
| 8 | Party leaders were concerned by the ‘ two for the price of one ’ sales pitch Hillary was using as she stumped around the country , often leading her husband into the fray rather than following . |
| 9 | Following on from the IWM 's history of Duxford work , Mary is now getting her teeth into the service history of the IWM/Shuttleworth combined Sea Hurricane I restoration project . |
| 10 | Charming , thought Isabel indignantly , as she cautiously felt her way into the hut . |
| 11 | Great Aunt S was simply pouring her tea into the saucer , whereupon she drank it down with a loud slurp . |
| 12 | She would even extend her fancy into the shops she visited , seeing them as markets where she could choose a fish by the brightness of its eye , a chicken by its stiff yellow claws and plump breast , or pick out tangerines with the leaves still on them . |
| 13 | Rose closed the door behind Joan Gilmour , then followed her son into the kitchen . |
| 14 | He motioned her to silence , then watched her climb into the car and start the engine . |
| 15 | One concerned neighbour — who is now looking after the boy — eventually pushed her way into the flat and found the stricken woman lying on the floor of the front room with a sheet over her . |