Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] them into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 6 | Kimon , therefore , was dumped by ( among others ) his own troops of a few months before — he was , after all , the man who had got them into the Ithome mess . |
| 7 | Nine of the birds , confiscated from poachers who had smuggled them into the US from Mexico , have survived and seem to be doing well . |
| 8 | The servant , who had followed them into the room , put her arms round her and comforted her . |
| 9 | Down in Tranent , which was somewhere near Edinburgh , and anything could have happened there — but old Donald had had this from Cameron himself , and he got newspapers by the carrier 's cart from Dunkeld — some miners had sworn not to serve , even if the King called on them , and the Volunteers had chased them into the cornfields and played havoc with their sabres … |
| 10 | ‘ As your guesses instantly become convictions … ’ she shrugged , not bothering to complete it , and neither of them spoke again until a commissionaire had ushered them into the foyer of the building housing the restaurant and they were inside a lift . |
| 11 | They all looked blowsy , lipsticky and desperate , locked in a fight with a life set to trample them into the barroom floor , a series of no-account boyfriends too free with their fists and guns , and an incipient obesity that would limit their later careers to shrill mother roles . |
| 12 | Burma 's generals have condemned the laureates ' mission as interference and refused to let them into the country . |