Example sentences of "she [vb past] [pers pn] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 3 | She led me into a bed-sitting-room . |
| 4 | She led me into a parlour . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 7 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 8 | She led her into the house . |
| 9 | She led him into a room off the hall , a room which ran the length of the house with a window at each 0d . |
| 10 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 11 | She led him into the sitting room . |
| 12 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 13 | She led him into the kitchen where the fire burnt cheerfully in the grate . |
| 14 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 15 | So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another . |
| 16 | Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair . |
| 17 | She let him into the flat , where the television was on . |
| 18 | She drew me into the kitchen and stretched out her arms , leaning backward a bit , and said , ‘ How I love people who say ‘ Yes ’ to life . ’ |
| 19 | Taking Mungo 's hand in hers , which was clawed with arthritis , she drew him into the house . |
| 20 | She thumbed them into the magazine before placing it carefully back in the box with the weapon . |
| 21 | She drove it into the side of his head as hard as she could , hearing a crack as she smashed his temporal bone . |
| 22 | Instead of dragging it back into a tight knot in the nape of her neck , she twisted it into a more becoming coil , leaving the tendrils which had been twisted in the curl rags , to curl prettily round her face . |
| 23 | Sealing an envelope , she dropped it into the basket of outgoing mail . |
| 24 | His whole life seemed to hang on each letter in Annie 's hand , his eyes following it until she handed it into the crowd or placed it on a pile to one side and then he would fix on the next letter and the next . |
| 25 | She folded it into the cleft of her black bra . |
| 26 | ‘ Now , mind you eat these courgettes , ’ she said to her daughter , as she sliced them into the pan . |
| 27 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 28 | Scowling at his broad , white-sweatered back , she followed him into a room as neat and orderly as an operating theatre . |
| 29 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 30 | She followed him into the kitchen . |