Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 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 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 4 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 5 | And that got me into the last three so I had to do it all again at the Barbican which I think was to see if I could fill that theatre with enough presence and vocal range . |
| 6 | WordPerfect for Windows Power Macros is one of those weighty ( 500+ pages ) books/manuals and although designed for the ‘ couple of steps up from a basic knowledge ’ reader , I did n't find it got me into the harder bits gently . |
| 7 | Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today . |
| 8 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 9 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Things that filled her with joy and drew her into the everyday lives of the two people she had loved for so many lonely years . |
| 12 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
| 13 | He threw the luggage into the boot of her hired car and helped her into the front seat . |
| 14 | Immediately the current caught the oil-drum and with Simon still clinging to it , whisked it off down to the Lock and crashed it into the wooden gates . |
| 15 | The company took the name of the new boss , who moved it into the structural market , building bridges , stations , hotels and even piers at Redcar , Bournemouth and Plymouth . |
| 16 | She scooped up the bits of spilt polystyrene in her hand and dropped them into the waste-paper basket . |
| 17 | Eva Hendrix started to chatter in her persuasive voice while the uniformed chauffeur drove them into the ancient town of Freiburg . |
| 18 | Léonie , with her sleeves rolled up and Victorine 's big blue overall wrapped round her , held the smeared plates under the hot tap , dunked them into the soapy water in the yellowing plastic bowl in the enamel sink , stacked them in the wooden rack on the tin draining-board . |
| 19 | And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time . |
| 20 | The victory , the 18th of Kite 's career , was worth $198,000 and lifted him into the top spot on this year 's US Tour money-winning list with $292,361 . |
| 21 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 22 | Absently she twitched a fading tulip from its vase and dropped it into the waste-paper basket . |
| 23 | I went outside quietly and found a length of driftwood of the appropriate shape , came back to the Bunker , caught the snake by the neck with the piece of wood and bundled it into the first rusty can I could find which still had a lid . |
| 24 | The treatment hammered them into the defenceless mind . |
| 25 | ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house . |
| 26 | When she arrived , minus dogs this time , as they would have destroyed the solemnity — Flora showed her into the back room . |
| 27 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 28 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 29 | She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . |
| 30 | The startled shopper handed it into the local police station . |