Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] into the " in BNC.

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1 The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth
2 They tried pushing it back into the hole but the force of the water was too great .
3 He tried to draw her back into the circle of his arms .
4 She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée .
5 Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) .
6 Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea .
7 However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line .
8 At home this meant putting him out into the hall of the bungalow ( where there were no stairs ) .
9 He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box .
10 Had carried him off into the mountains , in this harsh summer of storms and floods ?
11 No matter what Joe 's and Tamar 's earlier lives had been , both were respectably married now and their father had accepted them back into the fold .
12 She was not like the Glasgow woman , who had shown him out into the street .
13 He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years .
14 I guessed why she had brought me round into the shadow .
15 The accidents that had brought me back into the past were real enough .
16 With their curiosity satisfied and the music too slow to be interesting , Wayne and Sandy had taken themselves out into the gardens to cool off .
17 And he had taken them down into the Southern Ocean , not as far as we were going , but far enough to be in amongst the ice , circumnavigating the whole land mass of Antarctica in waters no man had ever sailed before .
18 She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused .
19 John Goold , a research student from the University of North Wales , said there had been a remarkable development when one of the whales broke away from the other five as they attempted to usher them out into the Pentland Firth for the second time .
20 Floor manager George Picard says : ‘ Kevin fell in love with the hills and wanted to put something back into the community , that 's all . ’
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