Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber . |
| 2 | A hammer carried by Carrington in his canvas bag of tools soon tapped them into a loosened position . |
| 3 | To her relief , although it was very faint , she found a pulse , and quickly she loosened his tie , unbuttoned his shirt and somehow manoeuvred him into a better position , all the while talking to him , reassuring him , telling him he was safe . |
| 4 | The lift came to a halt and Roman practically lifted her into a quiet corridor with only one door opening from it . |
| 5 | An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people . |
| 6 | ( Remember Russell 's chicken ( Russell , 1959 , p. 35 ) , whose true beliefs about the regularity with which it had been fed so far led it into a false belief about the security of its future . ) |
| 7 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 8 | Very deliberately , Ricci slowly rotated it into the best position for nut-cracking . |
| 9 | In ways more amenable to women 's visual pleasure , off-beat films which then made it into the mainstream distribution circuit such as Lianna ( Nelson/Renzi ) , Desert Hearts , I 've Heard the Mermaids Singing ( Rozema ) and Percy Adlon 's work with Marianne Sagebrecht in Baghdad Café and Sugar Baby have achieved a degree of success in changing the dynamics of female objectification and sexual fantasy in an entertainment setting . |
| 10 | Charles cut the hair up to the nape of the neck at the back , then graduated it into a flattering , face-framing bob . |
| 11 | He pulled the horse round to face eastwards , then spurred it into the tall field of rye . |
| 12 | Huffily Leonora filled the kettle , made coffee , then took hers into the other room . |
| 13 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 14 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 15 | Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today . |
| 16 | He never lost sight of the religious nature of his subject , and never turned it into a boring desert . |