Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] it into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Turning her back , she weighed the hammer and smashed it into the centre of the clay skull at her feet . |
| 2 | ‘ She was driving very fast , ’ he said as he folded the map round the photograph and tucked it into the inner pocket of the waterproof saddlebag . |
| 3 | Monks tied the locket to a heavy weight and dropped it into the water . |
| 4 | The striker took the ball in his stride and powered it into the top right hand corner from 25 yards . |
| 5 | Once , he even put a live spider on a piece of tape and forced it into the terrified 11-year-old 's mouth . |
| 6 | She took out a cassette tape and pushed it into the car 's tape-deck . |
| 7 | When they 'd finished , Mina put the rice , a handful at a time , into the winnowing fan and tossed it into the air . |
| 8 | Heeding this good advice , she found her key and pushed it into the lock . |
| 9 | He just stood looking down at her for a moment , his eyes still pleading , and then abruptly he turned and picked up the tray and carried it into the kitchen for her . |
| 10 | And then the bought the drill hall and turned it into the public hall and presented it to the island . |
| 11 | Then she dragged the body to the workbench and pushed it into the cupboard , head first . |
| 12 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 13 | She leant forward now and picked up a log of wood and threw it into the centre of the glowing ashes . |
| 14 | She reached for her pen and dipped it into the well so fiercely that when she lifted it a blot fell across the page . |
| 15 | The engine compartment had to be outside the cockpit for acoustic and thermal insulation so we introduced a vertical backlight for good rear visibility and blended it into the fins sloping down from the roof , which gave a certain lightness to the rear pillars , This solution has become a constant feature on all Pininfarina Ferraris up to the Testarossa . |
| 16 | She wiped the stiletto off on its fur and slipped it into the sheath in her boot , then sucked the warm , salty blood from the puncture she had made . |
| 17 | Very , very carefully , Holmes took the snake and threw it into the metal box . |
| 18 | Here was a person who took a faculty in another university and turned it into the most famous faculty in the land . |
| 19 | He pulled off his shirt and threw it into the corner of the tiny room . |
| 20 | The boy waved his stick round his head and threw it into the pool . |
| 21 | She located the air supply tap , pulled a tube from the back of her suit and plugged it into the tap : there was no point in using the suit 's air and batteries while she could draw air from the shuttle 's recyclers . |
| 22 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 23 | Earlier , supervised by George , she had added a tablespoon of Camp coffee to half a pint of water and poured it into the cut glass whisky decanter on the sideboard . |
| 24 | Now the big man finished gnawing at the bone and tossed it into the grass , smiling ruefully . |
| 25 | Then Det Con Michael Blackwell lifted the bin and slid it into the back of the Metro , from which the rear seat had been removed . |
| 26 | He took his documentation from his pocket and pushed it into the officer 's hand . |
| 27 | He pulled out a coin from his pocket and flipped it into the air . |
| 28 | He pulled a key from his trouser pocket and slipped it into the lock . |
| 29 | She took a cassette from her pocket and slid it into the machine . |
| 30 | Before it could , I cut the cord and took it into the ante-room . |