Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] into [art] small " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 2 | Some researchers have attempted to capture the core meaning of words by decomposing them into a small set of ’ building blocks ’ known as semantic primitives [ Wilks 1973 ] . |
| 3 | Lucenzo ruthlessly hurried the shaken Meredith through a small door , to the sound of indulgent ribaldry , and drew her into a small salotto . |
| 4 | Jill nodded , standing aside to let Lindsey precede her into the small side ward . |
| 5 | The château was empty , almost derelict , and they have turned it into a small hotel and restaurant . |
| 6 | She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect . |
| 7 | She tried to tug her arm away , but he ignored her struggles , leading her into a small , plush-carpeted room furnished simply with a desk and bookcase , a couple of armchairs , and a long , padded couch set back along one wall . |
| 8 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 9 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 10 | She rose obediently and followed him into the small counselling-room across the corridor from the nurses ' station , relieved to remember that Deana Davenport had the day off today . |
| 11 | She took him into a small office with a window overlooking the harbour . |
| 12 | The Sergeant took us into the small canteen and told us quietly and forcefully that our holiday in Aubagne was over and that we were off to start four months of basic training designed to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 13 | Beggars ca n't be choosers though , he thought philosophically as he got up , removed the boiling kettle from the gas ring and emptied it into a small china teapot . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll let you into a small secret , ’ he said . |
| 15 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 16 | She ushered them into a small cluttered room where a middle-aged woman in a navy dress sat behind a littered desk . |
| 17 | He watched the young nun usher his two companions away and allowed Lady Amelia to take him into the small chamber , really no more than a cell with a table , stool and truckle bed . |
| 18 | ( They pick up PROF ENO and throw him into the small drainage channel that runs alongside the playing field ) |
| 19 | She let him accompany her into the small lounge where the set was kept in segregation from the vocal and gregarious fishermen , and settle her in a comfortable chair , cheek by jowl with a single elderly lady , who seemed pleased to have company , and disposed to conversation . |
| 20 | I asked , following her into the small corridor we called the ward ‘ flat ’ . |
| 21 | The gaoler opened it , took a cresset torch from the passageway and pushed it into a small crevice in the cell wall . |
| 22 | ‘ Paulo 's suggested we should turn it into a small club for residents , and , from what I 've seen , it seems like a good idea . ’ |