Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow would certainly invade the tops of her boots when she stepped out of the car , and she swore softly in Ruthenian as she retrieved the groceries from the floor of the car and turned to carry them into the house . |
| 2 | From long experience Blanche knew it was pointless to confront most interviewees , foolish to drive them into a corner . |
| 3 | The Irishmen , if they had any cattle left , used to drive them into the street ; and they 'd carry on bargaining with the farmers under a street lamp ; and when the police came along they 'd move further on to another lamp until they 'd sold all their cattle . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ You seem determined to drive me into the arms of easier women , Meredith . ’ |
| 5 | When transferring animals between cages it may be found easier to coax them into a bottle than to handle them . |
| 6 | Silver roused the others and began to coax them into the field . |
| 7 | Would it be best to pull them into the alley ? |
| 8 | You do have people from both sexes , of equal abilities and potential strengths , and it would be possible at that stage to have a training pool of people , which perhaps , er redress the balance , and perhaps er gradually have available many people , but you can only do that , if people come forward without skills that you need in order to train them into the jobs . |
| 9 | They all looked blowsy , lipsticky and desperate , locked in a fight with a life set to trample them into the barroom floor , a series of no-account boyfriends too free with their fists and guns , and an incipient obesity that would limit their later careers to shrill mother roles . |
| 10 | Crilly tries to coax me into the booth but I shrug out from under his arms and make an excuse about the family . |
| 11 | A dozen policemen rushed into the room and tried to herd everyone into the corners . |
| 12 | ‘ They tried to pull me into a scrum once and they invited me into the showers with them ’ — GAIL PARKER ( a lady referee ) on problems encountered when trying to control men . |
| 13 | She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water . |
| 14 | It was silly to work himself into a state like this . |
| 15 | BRITAIN 'S biotechnology company , Celltech , is making a pitch at a £2000 million market to pull itself into the black . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course not , ’ Flavia said , trying to pull herself into the present . |
| 17 | She seemed about to launch herself into a speech but then thought better of it . |
| 18 | England , too , came to realise his significance which is why , since the Carling-Guscott partnership began , they have tried somehow to work him into the side . |
| 19 | Or was he just trying to provoke her into an argument for the sheer hell of it ? |
| 20 | As she leaned into the car , the attacker grabbed her and tried to pull her into the vehicle . |
| 21 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 22 | I just wonder what 's I last I heard they were the receiver was trying to pull it into the collapse but er |
| 23 | The headlamp picked out a cat streaking towards a wall , and a child without shoes between the shafts of a wooden cart , straining to pull it into an alleyway , and both images were gone in an instant , drowned in darkness as the bike sped past , the road a triangle of bright water as they rode the glittering breakers of the tramlines and swerved to the kerb of the Commercial Hotel . |
| 24 | Be able to make a load and strong enough to pitch it into the stack , that was the problem . |
| 25 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 26 | But the purpose of making such an accusation is , if it is made defensively , to cement oneself into a position of self-righteous stasis , and not to bring about change . |
| 27 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 28 | When it came time to fling himself into the cradle of the flying harness , the back scenery was slippery with rain , and Gabriel 's bare feet slithered against the paint so that he plunged nose down , the harness slipped down to his hips , and he sawed to and fro , arms outstretched . |
| 29 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 30 | ‘ We think that the products coming out of this factory are of such a standard and quality that there is a very good potential to sell them into the market , ’ he said . |