Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 3 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 4 | Oh who cares , I thought , and tried to bundle her into the bag right away . |
| 5 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 6 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 7 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 8 | ‘ In her mind , she 'd twisted her into the daughter she and Gaston never had . |
| 9 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 10 | The snow would certainly invade the tops of her boots when she stepped out of the car , and she swore softly in Ruthenian as she retrieved the groceries from the floor of the car and turned to carry them into the house . |
| 11 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |
| 12 | Bragg rubbed the tobacco lovingly between his palms , then began to feed it into the bowl of his pipe . |
| 13 | Leo carried the pile of crockery into the kitchen and began to load it into the dishwasher . |
| 14 | The gale threatened to blow her into the water . |
| 15 | Suddenly , in mid-song , Dylan stopped playing and began to mumble something into the microphone , off on his own personal tangent . |
| 16 | Lacuna took it , held it above her head , and started to slide it into the implant . |
| 17 | Donald , one of our neighbours , undertook to initiate us into the art of peat-cutting . |
| 18 | They were both then hauled through the treacherous water to the boat , but while paddling for the shore , the current seized the boat and it capsized throwing everyone into the water . |
| 19 | Still flexing his fingers , he started to dig them into the base of her neck , or rather , in the area where her neck might be assumed to begin . |
| 20 | Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director . |
| 21 | ‘ The vessel , from Bangor Marina , was half-sunk , but the Hummer and the lifeboat managed to tow it into the harbour and beach it on a mud bank , ’ the spokesman said . |
| 22 | He spoke for a minute , followed by a succession of other characters and then four grown , men sitting in the lotus position , proceeded to hurl themselves into the air . |
| 23 | I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings . |
| 24 | I dashed into a record shop , begged a loan of the album , transferred it onto cassette in Dixon 's next door , sped back to the hall and managed to shove it into the system just as the chairman announced it and the audience was standing . |
| 25 | Bernier , in his role as imperial surgeon , did make it into the zenana complex , but was not much the wiser afterwards : |
| 26 | Alright , what you did n't see , and I 've talked to the man who made the video , and he tells me that in fact — as played in slow motion , it does definitely show that Martin Foyle as the ball was going goalward , got the final touch to the ball and did put it into the net , no doubt that in fact it was Foyle 's goal . |
| 27 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 28 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 29 | We 'd have seen if one of us had tipped something into the soup . ’ |
| 30 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |