Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 She flung him into the Grand Canal .
2 I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward .
3 She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool .
4 She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby .
5 She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared .
6 She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls .
7 Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past .
8 She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking .
9 ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’
10 She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove .
11 And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk .
12 She demoted him into a mere irritant with popping eyes , a frog .
13 He turned back again to the pill-box and , as he began to run towards it , she shoved him into the empty channel on the seaward side of the Lock .
14 A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside .
15 She took him into a small office with a window overlooking the harbour .
16 She escorted him into an inner office where a young man sat behind a very large desk .
17 Finding her own pocket handkerchief , she gave it into the old lady 's other hand .
18 She ushered them into a small cluttered room where a middle-aged woman in a navy dress sat behind a littered desk .
19 She ushered him into a stuffy little room lit by bright spotlights .
20 She pushed him into the right positions .
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