Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] [pers pn] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In her mind , she 'd twisted her into the daughter she and Gaston never had . |
| 2 | I 'd dragged her into the storeroom and begged her to take me to London , saying my family would n't allow me to go without her . |
| 3 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 4 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 5 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 6 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 7 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 8 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 9 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 10 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 11 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 12 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 13 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 14 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 15 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 16 | Kimon , therefore , was dumped by ( among others ) his own troops of a few months before — he was , after all , the man who had got them into the Ithome mess . |
| 17 | So Lexy was one of the three girls mentioned by the whispering woman who had shown her into the Seraglio . |
| 18 | Barry had flung it into the hedge . |
| 19 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 20 | Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD . |
| 21 | He was Thorfinn 's first cousin , and his very revolt against his heritage had driven him into the arms of Siward and Durham . |
| 22 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 23 | Nine of the birds , confiscated from poachers who had smuggled them into the US from Mexico , have survived and seem to be doing well . |
| 24 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 25 | Then , after she had taken her tour of Nightmare City , they had brought her into the middle of town and dumped her . |
| 26 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse . |
| 27 | Mary was certain that it was the same estate-car that had swept her into the ditch . |
| 28 | Luke had followed her into the lounge . |
| 29 | Miguel had followed her into the room . |
| 30 | The servant , who had followed them into the room , put her arms round her and comforted her . |