Example sentences of "drag [pron] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
| 2 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 3 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 4 | He had it all worked out : the hand over her mouth , the knife under her eyes , and drag her into the dark shed . |
| 5 | I haul her off the bed and half carry , half drag her into the bathroom . |
| 6 | It 's followed by more noise , sharp and ugly , as they drag him into the kitchen . |
| 7 | We prop the grating open with another branch and spend the next half-hour pulling fallen branches and logs from all over that part of the hill , dragging them into the clump of bushes and throwing them into the shaft ; we snap dead branches off trees and bushes and haul and peel living ones off ; we scrape together armfuls of dry leaf litter and throw those over the edge of the chimney , too ; everything goes under the grating and down into the shaft . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Without that South African link , Zimbabwe 's rugby , and even that of Namibia , should they shun their former ‘ ruler ’ for long , would only drag itself into the doldrums . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He got out of the car , slammed the door , strode round and hauled her out , dragging her into the villa behind him . |
| 13 | You could drag him into the den . |
| 14 | And the keynote speaker at the Republican Convention , Thomas Kean , Governor of New Jersey , apparently felt it necessary to assert that ‘ we will search out bigotry and racism — we will drag it into the sunshine of understanding and make it wither and die ’ . |
| 15 | When you put the pointer over a Split box it changes into a double headed arrow and as you drag it into the worksheet it drags a thick bar with it . |
| 16 | In those days I used to hang out at the Giaconda Cafe in Denmark Street where all broke musicians hang out , and I remember his first single came out and he dragged me into the record store next door , Francis Day & Hunter , and he said , ‘ Have a listen to this ’ . |
| 17 | IT WAS a two-part induction process that dragged me into the brawling hostelry in the sky of NME Towers . |
| 18 | Just dragged me into the building , threw me down on the floor , made a lot of noise and left . ’ |
| 19 | When Jean-Claude emerged from the hide-out , he held out his arm and dragged me into the dark cave . |
| 20 | They found that he knew what he wanted ; that he was persuasive in trying to get it ; that what he wanted was good ; and they suddenly realized that this new young professor dragged them into the twentieth century . |
| 21 | Even as he hacked his way free more tentacles looped around him and dragged him into the filth . |
| 22 | — they dragged him into the forest — |
| 23 | ‘ The robber … dragged her into the middle of the room and , looking once towards the door , placed his heavy hand upon her mouth . ’ |
| 24 | Catching her arm , he dragged her into the room . |
| 25 | We both do , ’ and almost dragged her into the restaurant 's bar . |
| 26 | He dragged her into the living-room and flung her across it to skid to a halt . |
| 27 | When my children attempted to drag me into the Cumberland Pencil Museum in Keswick I started to devise a list of silly museums — corn plasters of the world , Peruvian nose flutes , or some such other daft idea . |
| 28 | Turning on him , Headstone drags him into the weir where they both drown ( OMF passim ) . |
| 29 | Such a false position was not for her , nor for her was the taunt of cowardice , so she smiled and assented , and allowed him to drag her into the sparsest area of the room . |
| 30 | As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea . |