Example sentences of "drag into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | New-sightedness , the timeless standpoint , ‘ hitherto unknown reality ’ — these have an air of mystical hubris when dragged into the open , but they are what Dostoevsky is really talking about . |
| 2 | The meeting dragged into the early hours of yesterday morning as the Honduran President , Mr Jose Azcona , stormed out of the session after Nicaragua 's President Daniel Ortega refused to withdraw his suit to the International Court of Justice in The Hague over the continuing presence of contras in Honduras . |
| 3 | Bradford Northern beat Wakefield Trinity 9–8 yesterday as Hull were dragged into the relegation battle with a 27–18 defeat at Swinton , writes John Whalley . |
| 4 | At Newport Morrissey fell victim to innocent crowd over-enthusiasm and found himself dragged into the mob . |
| 5 | Many ministers and senior civil servants are convinced Britain will be dragged into the civil war in 1993 . |
| 6 | But I believe he is still seething about being dragged into the debate and left to look the villain of the piece . |
| 7 | Palace 's recent turnaround in form gives some cause for optimism that their relegation fears will recede in the New Year , but if Howard Wilkinson 's men continue to falter they could find themselves being unthinkably dragged into the mire . |
| 8 | It is Pop Judgement Day , with every group in history dragged into the dock to justify their past existence . |
| 9 | Once seized , the ant is dragged into the sand at the bottom of the burrow where it is consumed . |
| 10 | That is , the sexual conduct of women not present at the trial is dragged into the media 's version of the event , the better to titillate the reader . |
| 11 | Even the poor old bicycle was dragged into the act , amidst a blizzard of respectable fears . |
| 12 | A hip-bath was dragged into the tiger house and fires built outside to heat water . |
| 13 | He also noticed several cannons being dragged into the sepoy camp by bullocks from the direction of the bridge of boats . |
| 14 | With a hissing intake of breath , Benny grabbed Petion 's arm , and pointed to the figure they had seen dragged into the open . |
| 15 | Thanks to television … the nation had an armchair view of the violence : uprooted telegraph poles , rolling down the hill towards the police cordon ; a workmen 's hut dragged into the road and going up in petrol-fed flames ; a lone policeman with his truncheon repeatedly laying into a recumbent miner ; the wall of riot shields parting like the Red Sea as groups of police , in black one-piece suits and NATO helmets , dashed into the crowded pickets while a senior officer , with loud-hailer , encouraged them to ‘ take prisoners ’ . |
| 16 | Politicians , diplomats , aid workers and journalists of almost every nationality have all been dragged into the confusion and misery that are the aftermath of the Vietnam war and the American bombing of Cambodia . |
| 17 | Furniture was dragged into the streets and burned along with cars and buses . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you want me to call Mandeville and Southgate and have him dragged into the hall ? |
| 19 | A moment later he and Twoflower had been dragged into the lee of the ravaged altar , and lay panting on the floor . |
| 20 | The programme , from BBC East , is bound to shock conservative Asian families who have never accepted that girls from their community could get dragged into the seedy world of prostitution . |
| 21 | Worried that they might have been dragged into the tanker war in the Gulf , they bought intermediate-range missiles from China in May . |
| 22 | Worried that they might have been dragged into the tanker war in the Gulf , they bought intermediate-range missiles from China in May . |
| 23 | Were it to do so , literally hundreds of thousands of people would tonight not be sitting at home frightened about whether they might be dragged into the courts and on to prison . |
| 24 | If one seeks to understand the way in which politics is gradually dragged into the gutter , it is because hon. Members come out with such a simplistic approach . |
| 25 | When he sat and talked to Jekub , frogs were never dragged into the conversation . |
| 26 | He heard somebody say ’ … and Maggsy ’ and he was grabbed from behind and dragged into the van . |
| 27 | The end of the striptease is then no longer to drag into the light a hidden depth , but to signify , through the shedding of an incongruous and artificial clothing , nakedness as a natural vesture of woman , which amounts in the end to regaining a perfectly chaste state of the flesh . |