Example sentences of "[vb past] it into the [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He told her ; and he watched suspiciously as she glanced at the sheet of instructions , set the timer and plugged it into the power point that controlled the standard lamp .
2 And then when he gave it up when his wife died , he stopped it then and they changed it into the West Mainland Horse Breeding Society .
3 I dried off the needle and dropped it into the metal box where I carried my suture materials , scalpels and blades .
4 She screwed up the letter and dropped it into the kitchen bin .
5 Kirov held it by one comer , wiped it with his sleeve , and dropped it into the post box .
6 Earlier , supervised by George , she had added a tablespoon of Camp coffee to half a pint of water and poured it into the cut glass whisky decanter on the sideboard .
7 Very , very carefully , Holmes took the snake and threw it into the metal box .
8 ’ Farrell switched the two-way off and jammed it into the seat pocket beside him .
9 Not even if we squashed it into the cassette case .
10 She had scrumpled it up and tossed it into the wastepaper basket with an insouciant laugh … well , more of a furious scowl , actually , and then had had to put up with Helena asking whether Matthew Prescott was that rather super chap who had been featured in GQ a short while ago .
11 ‘ Good morning , ’ she answered grudgingly as she hastily unpegged her washing and flung it into the laundry basket at her feet .
12 He picked up a stone and flung it into the horse pond .
13 Some of the first of these were made by a pupil of McConnell 's , Allan Jacobson , in Los Angeles , who announced in 1965 that if he trained rats to approach the food dispenser of their cage when a light flashed or a clicking sound was made , then killed the animals , extracted the RNA from their brains and injected it into the gut cavity of untrained animals , these now tended to approach the dispenser when the appropriate stimulus — click or light — was given , even though the dispenser was now empty of food and the animals received no reward .
14 I thereupon emptied it , tore it apart , carried it into the Drawing room , put it together again and restored the contents .
15 Alice crumpled it up and pushed it into the kitchen bin .
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