Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [pron] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 2 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 3 | Anxiously , they waited as Delaney 's black figure lowered itself into the fog , and was lost , bit by bit , from view , suggesting a primordial creature descending into a tropical , mist-covered swamp . |
| 4 | Bernice lowered herself into the hole . |
| 5 | In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome . |
| 6 | Almost a hundred years later , the great American dramatist Thornton Wilder turned it into The Merchant of Yonkers and later revised it , changing the name to The Matchmaker . |
| 7 | Swindon were in no danger of missing the boat to the third round … just to make sure player manager Glenn Hoddle hammered them into the lead after just three minutes … |
| 8 | In 1848 Prince Windischgrätz turned it into the headquarters of his General Staff ; it then became a special school for the Communist Party and is now being restored as the Academy of Music . |
| 9 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 10 | Georgina plumped herself into the visitor 's chair . |
| 11 | The climax came when Cornish Lady appeared in the western Channel , her progress was monitored and the cutter Alert , with Jim Cameron in command followed her into the river Exe , keeping in close radio contact with the waiting officers on shore . |
| 12 | Molly followed him into the room , struck a match and lit the oil lamp . |
| 13 | On their return to Orkney , however , the Social Work Department put them into the Camoran Children 's Home in Kirkwall . |
| 14 | Utopia projected itself into the future instead . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Neither of them felt up to leading and their enquiring eyes forced me into the lead . |
| 17 | When the large chromium headlamps of the Citron were only five feet from them , the first boy flung himself into the roadside ditch and let out a yell of triumph as he tumbled into the filthy water . |
| 18 | Skipper , Derek Hall cracked them into the lead midway through the first half . |
| 19 | Aided by her publicity adviser , Sir Gordon Reece , the mousy frump in sensible shoes and off-the-peg clothing transformed herself into the glamorous power-dresser , with coiffed blonde hair and capped teeth , who led President Mitterrand to slaver , ‘ She has the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe . ’ |
| 20 | Her vacuum cleaner drove him into the street , in search of a coffee shop . |
| 21 | The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him . |
| 22 | When Ruth followed her into the kitchen , she looked around ; like the rest of the house , it was clean but very sparsely furnished . |
| 23 | Ruth followed her into the hallway and was immediately aware of disorder ; open packing-cases and an assortment of clothes and furniture piled up in every inch of space . |
| 24 | Doone followed us into the kitchen , removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit . |
| 25 | Léonie thrust herself into the musty blackness behind the barrel , found an arm , two arms , pulled . |
| 26 | Isabel asked herself as fitzAlan swung himself into the saddle behind her . |
| 27 | Tugging her hat straight , Ellie followed them into the hotel . |
| 28 | Nkrumah 's mother was converted to Christianity by a German Roman Catholic priest and the boy followed her into the Church . |
| 29 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 30 | At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels . |