Example sentences of "she [vb past] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She made three trips , each time carrying a pair of heavy jugs which she emptied into a small copper hip bath : and each time increasingly aware of and responding to the gauntlet of Hope 's lust . |
| 2 | But the fumes seeped in until she was forced to gulp for air and she plunged into a deep and haunted sleep . |
| 3 | ‘ Eyesight of a cat , ’ she muttered aloud , then immediately uttered a pained yelp as she bumped into a rough-hewn table . |
| 4 | Retreating until she bumped into a Spanish walnut table that stood before a window , she put her arms back to lean on the table , then decided that her position might look inviting , folded her arms , and scowled at Sam . |
| 5 | She bolted into a deep brake of ferns and , bending low , crept away and then sank down and crouched motionless , hoping the two men would n't find her . |
| 6 | Paling , she sank into a green armchair , her eyes fixed on his hard-boned face . |
| 7 | She entered into a fresh contract each academic year . |
| 8 | The war , seemingly interminable , was by now unpopular , and in October 1761 , having failed to persuade his colleagues to declare war on Spain before she entered into an open alliance with France , Pitt the Elder resigned . |
| 9 | Christina 's feet slipped on the highly polished wooden floor as she flopped into an antique mahogany rocking-chair positioned in front of a big open window , affording uninterrupted views of the ocean and a cooling breeze from off the sea . |
| 10 | An hour later , Buzz hailed a taxi and returned to Eastbourne , where she booked into a modest residential hotel recommended by the taxi driver . |
| 11 | But she turned up safe and well at dawn when she walked into a mobile police station just yards away . |
| 12 | She walked into a spacious room on the corner of the building , with large windows on two sides providing panoramic views of the City . |
| 13 | When they reached the first floor , he opened one of the doors and she walked into a large bedroom with a huge bed , masses of cupboard space , a comfortable armchair , and a table and chairs set by the window . |
| 14 | So on Tuesday morning she popped into an ordinary-looking terraced house in West London and , over a cup of tea at a kitchen table , sat listening as a group of battered wives confided their problems to her . |
| 15 | Suddenly she broke into a terrible , loud and demented scream . |
| 16 | Abruptly she broke into a delicious laugh , her thin face lighting up . |
| 17 | One of the men shouted after her and she broke into an awkward trot . |
| 18 | With Marguerite she settled into an amiable routine . |
| 19 | A few days after the birth she fell into a post-natal depression . |
| 20 | She fell into a sudden awkward silence . |
| 21 | Left alone now , she fell into a troubled sleep and a dream in which her father was decapitating men in the back yard , and one of them was the nice young man whose name she did n't know nor from where he came . |
| 22 | The memory of their night together haunted her so relentlessly that it was daylight before she fell into an uneasy , exhausted sleep . |
| 23 | It was her last thought before she drifted into a deep , satisfying sleep . |
| 24 | When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff . |
| 25 | Over a period of about eighteen months , her father hit her mother to such an extent that she went into a Battered Wives Home five times , taking her two daughters with her each time . |
| 26 | Well , for instance ; one night Stella went crazy and assaulted a visitor who had called Stella II a skinny black bitch right in the middle of her rendition of ‘ Te Amo ’ , and he meant it , right there in the middle of his number — well Madame not only showed her approval of the assault by conspicuously buying Stella drinks every night for the whole of the following week ; as soon as she saw the fight starting she got off her stool , yanked out the plug on the sound system , hitched up that frock , got straight up on the stage while they were still on the floor ( she knew Stella would sort him out ) and she went into an unforgettable aria of abuse against this stranger which culminated in her eschewing all her usual magnificence of phrasing and just standing there shouting fuck off at him , screaming fuck off , if you do n't like it you can fuck off , E , X , I , T , there it is , you came in through it and now you can fuck off out of it , fuck off out of it why do n't you you stupid bastard ( and by now of course someone had dragged Stella off and we were all up on our chairs cheering while the disgraced stranger made his slow and humiliating exit through the parting crowd ) why do n't you just piss off and insult someone who does n't have the balls to answer back because you 've picked the wrong girls here darling , fuck off that 's it , fucking fuck off , fucking fuck off right through my front door and do n't you ever , do n't you ever , do n't you ever step on my fucking frock again . |
| 27 | They sent her to London for elocution lessons and she grew into a lovely young lady . |
| 28 | She peeped into a foil-covered delicacy to discover split bananas filled with chocolate and walnuts for dessert . |
| 29 | To the delight of husband Billy ‘ Big Yin ’ Connolly , she squeezed into a tight red mini-dress and went right over the top . |
| 30 | Then she delved into an inside pocket and produced a brown paper bag , the sort you get at off licences . |