Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 2 | I was staring at her as if she were turning into a witch in front of my eyes . |
| 3 | Many have been psychologically damaged , like Yasmin , whose continuous self-injury meant that she was moved into a more punitive environment . |
| 4 | It took a couple of seconds to sink in , then she was struggling into the boiler suit , using language , under her breath , which would have made treble word scores in Rude Scrabble . |
| 5 | For a second she blacked out , not from pain but from the shock of it all , and when she opened her eyes she was looking into a sea of faces all staring down at her . |
| 6 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 7 | Her father , himself ten years older than her mother , seemed more concerned about his daughter marrying a man who was seventeen years older than her , and had felt that she was entering into the marriage largely because of the misfortune that had afflicted her family . |
| 8 | She gained medals and prizes which enabled her , at age 15 , to go to Paris where she was accepted into the free Ecole des Beaux Arts and studied under the most eminent French artists and sculptors . |
| 9 | But he was elusive , and she could only fill the long minutes with a pretence of animation as she was absorbed into a group of Heather 's relations , something inside her dying by the second as time passed and Luke kept his distance . |
| 10 | The first time she rang the bell and went in through the front doors of the elegant old house where the showrooms were situated ( Mattli had no rear entrance ) Paula felt she was stepping into the place of her dreams . |
| 11 | But just as she was stepping into the cab , she clutched me : ‘ I have loved you so much , darling Lily . ’ |
| 12 | Constance had been there just under three weeks when she was called into the fitting room by the vendeuse . |
| 13 | When she was called into the General 's office in the rebuilt International Headquarters in Queen Victoria Street only a couple of hundred yards from St Paul 's Cathedral she had no premonition that further moves were afoot . |
| 14 | Betty was so low that she somehow contrived to hurt her finger quite badly with a clove that she was sticking into an onion . |
| 15 | There , she was bundled into a light coloured mini van and driven to a quiet spot in Lower Lode Lane on the outskirts of Tewkesbury , where she was raped . |
| 16 | She was pushed into a big office where she was faced by a rather handsome Obersturmfuhrer . |
| 17 | ‘ She was pushed into the harbour and left to drown , was n't she ? |
| 18 | Although she was facing into the room , Karen said , ‘ You do n't drive a green Merc , do you , Sam ? ’ |
| 19 | When I have been entertaining Shirley and Terry Jones doing an evening meal on a Saturday or a Sunday and sometimes both to help Shirley when she was getting into the run of going back to work I found that one of the cheapest of dinner party deserts was lemon meringue pie . |
| 20 | She was dragged into a garden and indecently assaulted — but saved when her attacker panicked after hearing voices from nearby shops . |
| 21 | As she walk home she was dragged into a garden , beaten and raped . |
| 22 | ‘ She was dragged into a car and taken to a house . |
| 23 | She was dragged into a garden and raped . |
| 24 | The twenty-year-old was walking outside Stoke Mandeville Hospital near Aylesbury when she was dragged into a field and attacked . |
| 25 | She was invited into the cockpit , and shown the controls , which meant nothing to her . |
| 26 | Police said she had suffered a terrible blow to the back of her head but was still alive when she was tossed into the water . |
| 27 | Light enveloped Ruth , a heatless blaze which seemed for an instant about to destroy her ; and then she was gone into a great space of darkness . |
| 28 | But the long-term effect on Vivien must have been profound ; already a lonely woman , she was dispatched into a mental asylum by people whom she knew and trusted . |
| 29 | He looked at Madra , but she was gazing into the fire and did not see him . |
| 30 | Leaning over the glass counter of his booth , the young man in charge was deep in conversation with an elderly gentleman draped with cameras , and she was gazing into the face of quite a different person . |