Example sentences of "[v-ing] [pers pn] into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moving to a different part of the country , for example , or even a chance meeting , may be the trigger to reactivate a relationship with someone in this outermost circle , thus drawing them into the second category . |
| 2 | Within south Korea policy should be aimed at consolidating democratic groups and drawing them into the military administration . |
| 3 | erm as regards correlating things together and bunging them into the same factor analysis model and stuff like that er even if the questions are a bit different I think you can still do that legitimately because it 's still sort of expressing the strength of opinion on some sort of scale erm so I do n't see that that 'll er interfere with the ambitions you 've got as regards the data erm so er |
| 4 | He had manoeuvred her just right , pressing her into the tightest corner , standing squarely in front of her so that she had no choice but to stare into his dark , angry face . |
| 5 | Then er it it 's only gon na be a case then of knocking it into the same style for all |
| 6 | Thomas moved , knocking it into the red weed . |
| 7 | That will increase Fleet/Norstar 's assets by 40% to $47 billion , catapulting it into the top rank of American banks . |
| 8 | It is a practical issue because by taking information out of the analogue world , the ‘ real ’ world , comprehensible and palpable to human beings , and translating it into the digital world , we make it infinitely changeable . |
| 9 | He folded her to him , coaxing her into the enchanted refuge of his arms , and she went willingly . |
| 10 | In the meantime — ’ He slid an arm around her waist , pulling her into the warm circle of his embrace . |
| 11 | " And I would so enjoy turning it into the best school of its kind in Frizingley . |
| 12 | It vapourized Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands , turning it into the many-coloured mushroom cloud , 25 miles high and 100 miles wide , which became the symbol of anxiety for mankind . |
| 13 | As Pound confessed in another letter in 1933 : ‘ Most Cantos have in them ‘ binding matter ’ , i.e. lines holding them into the whole poem and these passages do n't much help the reader of an isolated fragment … |
| 14 | With the ground packed to capacity and the home team needing a valuable point to avoid relegation , Dundee played to win , eventually dismantling Saints and sending them into the Second Division . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've got plenty of cash — and charge cards , too , if it comes to that , ’ he added , firmly grasping her arm and marching her into the large department store . |
| 16 | After a week of such treatment , he mounted her , sending her into the same orgy of bucking that had dislodged the grooms and all the Mendoza boys . |
| 17 | When the opportunity beckoned , he made his point by the simple expedient of picking up a worm and popping it into the panting youngster 's mouth . |
| 18 | Urgently Ramsay directed them , all but physically pushing and prodding them into the approximate shape of a great wedge . |
| 19 | Diana has helped Charles by bringing him into the modern era , teasing him and leavening his spirits , and keeping him young and abreast of young people 's thinking . |
| 20 | A long time later she stirred , and Travis shifted his weight , drawing her into the warm curve of his body . |
| 21 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , towing me into the tall bracken . |
| 22 | In more dramatic terms , the downgrading of domestic industries reflects the success of the transnational capitalist class in dragging them into the global economy and thereby transforming them , even in a rather minimal sense , into transnational industries . |
| 23 | Has anybody ever suggested plugging you into the National Grid ? ’ |
| 24 | Did Eve hate the Westwards who were so rich for not taking her into the big house ? |
| 25 | ‘ I know you did n't come to be thanked , Gregory , ’ she said , motioning him into the other chair , ‘ but thanked you must be . |
| 26 | She pulled out the kitchen trash hopper , a laundry-basket kind of affair on squeaky castors , and set Donald on his journey to duck heaven by dropping him into the grey plastic liner . |
| 27 | She put a hand on his shoulder , to slow him , to make him think , and he tightened his grip on her haunches , dragging her into the quickening thump of his hips . |
| 28 | Nana 's rage struck like lightning ; now she shot from her chair and grabbed Martha by the arm , dragging her into the stuffy gloom of the bedroom . |
| 29 | Slowly his tongue traced a contour up the golden slope to the peak , sucking it into the moist warmth of his mouth . |
| 30 | SPRED has the twofold aim of teaching your child the ways of your own faith , and integrating him/her into the local parish community . |