Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] into the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In her mind , she 'd twisted her into the daughter she and Gaston never had . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 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 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 6 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 9 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 10 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So Lexy was one of the three girls mentioned by the whispering woman who had shown her into the Seraglio . |
| 13 | Barry had flung it into the hedge . |
| 14 | Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD . |
| 15 | He was Thorfinn 's first cousin , and his very revolt against his heritage had driven him into the arms of Siward and Durham . |
| 16 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 17 | Nine of the birds , confiscated from poachers who had smuggled them into the US from Mexico , have survived and seem to be doing well . |
| 18 | Then , after she had taken her tour of Nightmare City , they had brought her into the middle of town and dumped her . |
| 19 | Mary was certain that it was the same estate-car that had swept her into the ditch . |
| 20 | Luke had followed her into the lounge . |
| 21 | Miguel had followed her into the room . |
| 22 | The servant , who had followed them into the room , put her arms round her and comforted her . |
| 23 | Uncle Fred left four sons , two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow , Aunt May , who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy . |
| 24 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 25 | Anyway , Mrs Aggie had been very sorry she had struck her and she had taken her into the town and bought her a real new bonnet , although she would allow her to wear it only on a Sunday . |
| 26 | Through him he secured an introduction to John Dunbar , then the fiance of 16-year old Marianne Faithful , whose virginal looks and upper middle-class style had put her into the charts as a complement to the art student R&B bands . |
| 27 | 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 … |
| 28 | The shooting took place after two OMON units trying to intercept the bus had chased it into the centre of Vilnius . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | His cheerful rubicund face was graver than usual , and when she had ushered him into the dining-room he began without preliminary : |