Example sentences of "she [vb mod] [verb] into [art] " in BNC.

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1 I wrote back and said no way did I think that she ought to go into the unit .
2 She must get into the habit of using what she had , loaves instead of chocolate , herself instead of other people .
3 She sharply told Tilda , who had planted herself in a rocking-chair put out on the pavement , that she must come into the shop and help her speak to the man .
4 If the Minister of State wants to see what that is like , she should go into the City tonight and look at the number of people who are sleeping in the cold because there is no accommodation for them .
5 I mean , I ca n't think where else she 's gone and she knows she 'll get into the most dreadful trouble if she turns up now without a good excuse . ’
6 Kate 's M in particular gets v. waspish on the subject , assumes that this will be the end of Kate 's career , she 'll turn into a huge cow and smell of milk .
7 He was very fond of her but it strained imagination to see how she could fit into a policeman 's life .
8 She realised it was crammed full of television sets , and sedately moved to the next , to examine dresses , until she could walk into the Supermarket without anyone remarking her breathing .
9 Now she knew the potency of his sexual technique , she could switch into an appropriate iceberg act , freeze the moment before it had the chance to escalate into another near-escape like the one by the Blue Grotto …
10 She stopped , then reversed back a few feet until she could turn into the open gateway .
11 The next morning , without seeing any of the family , who were heaven knew where , she made herself some breakfast under the smiling gaze of Rose or Mary — she did n't know which — and before she could get into a worry as to whether Feargal had meant his offer to take her to Carlingford he walked in through the back door .
12 And a chain there and we used to tie her to this chain so that she could get into the box and out again , and then we used to put the cubs there first in the straw and then we used to put her there do you see .
13 She sat forward so that she could see into the Fiesta 's wing mirror .
14 From here she could see into the fields .
15 In these intervals of comparative serenity , she would instruct Ariel urgently in her lore ; but these moments were brief , and soon she 'd fly into a fury of pain again .
16 She 'd come into the women 's group after the others had spent some time talking about their individual relations to femaleness ; feminism for her was a safe place , a rhetoric spoken to her by other women , a description they made of her , a set of ideas they had worked out and which she acquired to wear as a badge .
17 He 'd been quick to supply it , and she 'd come into the comfort of his devotion with an ease that suggested his dreams of possession had been well founded .
18 She was not going to dig up ancient grievances or remind Gloria of days gone by , when she used to come into the Watermen with half a dozen different gentlemen-friends in tow or , which was even worse , unaccompanied and on the look-out for a lonely man who might take a fancy to her .
19 And the typing college was a come down , I can tell you , from his idea that she would go into a profession ; he 'd even thought of university .
20 ‘ That 's what you would do , I suppose , but Garry 's wife is one of those women who think they have an ideal marriage , and she would go into a decline at the very mention of another woman , so Garry is presenting her with concrete evidence that their marriage is over . ’
21 As a child at Althorp , a big and lonely place where she often had no other children for company , she would go into the kitchen to chatter to the cook and the cleaners , and even the delivery men who dropped in .
22 Yes , she would go into the country rather than to a seaside resort , for they were full of old , retired , ill-tempered people and had she not had her full share of that ?
23 As she was drinking it , she decided that she would go into the hospital , on her way to the office .
24 Then she would go into the kitchen at the back of the house and make tea .
25 She would go into the bad woman 's shop .
26 When she went next door she would go into the bathroom just to see where he kept his flannel and what kind of toothpaste he used .
27 It had been so self-evident to Dalgliesh that the squad would need a senior woman detective that he had devoted his energy to choosing the right one , rather than to speculating how well she would fit into the team .
28 His hand curled around the back of her neck , slipping under the heavy weight of her hair , and she shuddered violently , her whole body so tense that she felt she would shatter into a thousand tiny pieces .
29 Then she stepped away from him , fearful of her own weakness and afraid that if he kissed her she would dissolve into a quivering jelly that would melt from sheer ecstasy .
30 Yes , as soon as she was through sunbathing she would amble into the village , which she knew reasonably well , and she would use the public phone box to get in touch with her father .
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