Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] they into the " in BNC.

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1 A coal-black manservant came out to the carriage and showed them into the house .
2 ‘ It makes them more responsible for their own work and gets them into the idea that they have to work outside normal school hours .
3 For three days before the unveiling ceremony , the cadets were on the site collecting stones from the hillside and cementing them into the cairn .
4 I once took all eleven of my Dad 's angelfish to school in a jam-jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company .
5 She disinterred two frozen TV dinners from the big freezer in the basement and put them into the oven to heat .
6 ‘ It would have been easy for me to bring in someone without any experience and ease them into the job , ’ said Stapleton , now 36 .
7 To those activists of the Catholic right who eventually came together in the CEDA it was an illegitimate document calling for drastic ‘ revision ’ ; more widely it helped to render the passive majority of Spanish Catholics immune from the appeal of conservative Republicanism and drive them into the CEDA 's welcoming embrace .
8 Then she heaved the pails out of the trough and carried them into the dairy , pouring some of the milk carefully into wide pans for the cream to rise .
9 I once took all eleven of my dad 's Angel Fish to school in a jam jar and poured them into the pond to keep the goldfish company . ’
10 They carried the bodies in silence across the room and dumped them into the wooden container .
11 And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces .
12 Where they become problematic , especially for members of marginalized cultural groups , is in what they begin to mean if we take them out of the pristine hot-house of the academy and put them into the messy struggles of day-to-day life .
13 He came to the station and saw them into the carriage .
14 Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter .
15 Start with small sprigs of the foliage that will form the body of the arrangement and push them into the foam at random to make a fairly even shape , as seen from all sides .
16 She waited until it had stalked away before picking up the remains of the Geiger-Muller counter and dropping them into the holdall .
17 The man peeled off two bank notes from the roll in his pocket and stuffed them into the conductor 's tunic pocket .
18 The young constable and the landlord each grabbed a combatant and frogmarched them into the village street .
19 ‘ If we 're acting for the smaller firm it invariably happens , and if and when we 're acting for the larger firm we always identify the key partners in the smaller firm and bring them into the new management team , ’ Mr Llambias reveals .
20 Aptly named Swing Shift , John Frieda takes looks of the past and transforms them into the sleek , set styles of today — with a little from modern technology of course !
21 We keep up standards by running training awards for Upholstery and Soft Furnishing trainees , these trainees are our future craftsmen and women and we are doing all we can to ‘ uphold ’ the same standards we had in the past and maintain them into the future .
22 I would dip blanket after blanket in boiling water , wring them out almost without realising that I was scalding myself , take off the old strips of saturated cloth , wrap the new ones round each leg and tuck them into the corners of affected muscles , but half the time not really knowing what I was doing .
23 He loped down into the basement , dusted off half a dozen bottles of beer and brought them up , found glasses and an opener and took them into the living-room on a tray .
24 Indeed the whole point of Smith 's contention in his 1776 treatise The Wealth of Nations is that if individuals pursue their own self-interests then , as it were , an invisible hand will guide all their separate strivings and competition and lead them into the greater good for society as a whole .
25 Calling on an acting ability not required since her childhood , she covered her patient with a cotton blanket and then hitched up each leg in turn and strapped them into the lithotomy stirrups , thus trapping the hoaxer until the joke had run its course .
26 Whisk the egg whites to a soft peak and fold them into the cooled mixture .
27 At other places people have often sought to reduce casualties by carrying the toads across the road and putting them into the breeding pond , but as often as not the toads they put into the pond were moving out of it rather than in , so the toads have to run the gauntlet of the road a second time .
28 Someone had put them in a box and thrown them into the canal .
29 She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket .
30 For Labour , accommodation to the changing mood meant adopting the essentially green idea of assessing the environmental costs of growth and working them into the balance sheets ( which the Tories are also adopting ) , but it did not mean following the Greens in calling for a halt to growth .
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