Example sentences of "[vb past] they into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 2 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 3 | Eva Hendrix started to chatter in her persuasive voice while the uniformed chauffeur drove them into the ancient town of Freiburg . |
| 4 | Léonie , with her sleeves rolled up and Victorine 's big blue overall wrapped round her , held the smeared plates under the hot tap , dunked them into the soapy water in the yellowing plastic bowl in the enamel sink , stacked them in the wooden rack on the tin draining-board . |
| 5 | The treatment hammered them into the defenceless mind . |
| 6 | pressed them into the warm flank of a beast |
| 7 | After a long time , the music started to play again and Cousin Jane and Mike walked back down the aisle and out of the church and everyone followed them into the sunny afternoon . |
| 8 | They carried the bodies in silence across the room and dumped them into the wooden container . |
| 9 | Ideas flew from Lucy 's lips , Jay worked them into the right phrase , the right analogy . |
| 10 | And after his successful return to management at Ipswich , he guided them into the Premier League before moving ‘ upstairs ’ at Portman Road this summer . |
| 11 | They walked out of the warm lobby and gasped , both of them , as the December wind whipped down the street and slapped them into the open air . |
| 12 | By ten-thirty , Beth had cleared away the breakfast things , washed the dishes and stacked them into the big dresser , wiped down the kitchen table , taken the coconut matting from the floor and hung it over the line outside where she beat every speck of dust from it before replacing it over her freshly scrubbed quarry tiles ; all that done she was now enjoying a cup of tea , before setting about the drawing room . |
| 13 | With help from a tutor I finally put them together and fitted them into the cubic box I was given . |
| 14 | Although official records of dioxins date from the middle of last century , it was an explosion at an Italian chemical plant in Seveso in 1976 that catapulted them into the public arena . |
| 15 | Vitor removed his sunglasses , folded them and slid them into the top pocket of his jacket . |