Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] [adv] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I wished everyone goodnight and he led me upstairs into a small dormitory room . |
| 2 | The process of demystifying the monarchy , necessary if it was to survive the second half of the twentieth century , turned it instead into a grand soap-opera , in which some minor members of the family seemed only too happy to play a demeaning part , one of the more absurd examples occurring when several of the Queen 's children took part in the television party-game show It 's A Knockout ! |
| 3 | The next thing she knew , Miss Hardbroom had pulled her out of the pocket and plonked her unceremoniously into a high-sided glass jar . |
| 4 | And he thrust her briskly into a small , book-lined room , and himself went on along a passage to the hall and the telephone , leaving the door open between them . |
| 5 | IN Britain the development of the railways followed the Industrial Revolution , accelerated its impact , and pressed it forward into a new phase . |
| 6 | The children pulled her irresistibly into a large square room at the back of the house whose floor was covered with a threadbare brown carpet . |
| 7 | She led him straight into an old-fashioned kitchen where a coal range gave out a dull red glow . |
| 8 | The radiologist apologetically but firmly positioned Phoebe in front of a ferocious-looking machine ; she took Phoebe 's arms and stretched them forward into an awkward position . |
| 9 | Menna was never well in his head or heart — Tawaret did not smile on his birth , and the torture he experienced at his brother 's hands pushed him forever into a lonely land inside himself … ’ |