Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] [pron] into the [noun] " 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 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 3 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 4 | She rummaged in her handbag for the key on its wooden key ring and tried to fit it into the lock . |
| 5 | Oh who cares , I thought , and tried to bundle her into the bag right away . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |
| 10 | Bragg rubbed the tobacco lovingly between his palms , then began to feed it into the bowl of his pipe . |
| 11 | Leo carried the pile of crockery into the kitchen and began to load it into the dishwasher . |
| 12 | The gale threatened to blow her into the water . |
| 13 | Suddenly , in mid-song , Dylan stopped playing and began to mumble something into the microphone , off on his own personal tangent . |
| 14 | Lacuna took it , held it above her head , and started to slide it into the implant . |
| 15 | Donald , one of our neighbours , undertook to initiate us into the art of peat-cutting . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director . |
| 18 | ‘ 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | I managed to get her into the car and drove her back to her aunt 's in Hastings . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 23 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 24 | Then the machine started printing lines all over the paper and we had to send someone into the shops to remove all the faulty rolls . ’ |
| 25 | It had little effect and she had to force herself into the driving seat and begin the return journey . |
| 26 | ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’ |
| 27 | You had to bring someone into the business and they brought someone into the business and that was their form of selling . |
| 28 | She turned to glare at him and made an effort to resist as he made to propel her into the passenger seat . |
| 29 | Not to this hard man who wanted to grind her into the dirt . |
| 30 | 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 . |