Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pron] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 4 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 7 | She threw herself into the literary and social life of Cambridge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 12 | Thrusting the heavy wooden doors of the lift open as they reached her floor , she precipitated herself into the small lobby from which the corridor to her room led , recoiling in dismay as a tall figure unwound itself from one of the two easy chairs beside a small table graced with a vase of fresh flowers . |
| 13 | Finding her own pocket handkerchief , she gave it into the old lady 's other hand . |
| 14 | She launched herself into the tiny room , crouching , arms spread wide , ready to grab Gazzer if he made a dash for the door . |
| 15 | She pushed him into the right positions . |