Example sentences of "her [noun] into a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But the squire found out and chopped his sister 's head off , which made her change into a baby rabbit . |
| 2 | April dipped her fingers into a paper cup of cider and flicked it at him before skipping away uphill . |
| 3 | She showered and dressed quickly in tan cords and a cream woollen top , brushing her hair into a cascade of soft curls . |
| 4 | ‘ I am referring to that foolish note you wrote me , ’ Theda said , winding her hair into a plait as she spoke , her voice deliberately cool over the tremors inside her . |
| 5 | This was exactly what she had been afraid of — flibbertigibbet though she was in most things , Candy could be positively terrier-like if she got her teeth into a mystery , refusing to let go until she 'd solved everything to her satisfaction . |
| 6 | I ca n't see her fitting into a country lifestyle , somehow . ’ |
| 7 | Whichever may be the true explanation , it is certainly known that on her way across the wilderness north of Hermitage the queen was thrown by her horse into a peat bog , marked on modern maps as the Queen 's Mire . |
| 8 | The abrupt encounter , the strangeness of his question and the equal strangeness of her unpremeditated reply threw her mind into a turmoil . |
| 9 | ‘ Are you feeling better now , cara ? ’ he added , on that deeper , more gentle note which sent the small hairs on the nape of her neck into a kind of ecstasy of awareness . |
| 10 | Ruth did n't move , not a muscle other than the ones to widen her lips into a grin . |
| 11 | With an effort she managed to force her lips into a smile . |
| 12 | Blanche twisted her lips into a sneer . |
| 13 | The court was told that he beat his wife unconscious before pushing her and her car into a river . |
| 14 | piously tying her legs into a knot . |
| 15 | For each accomplishment they rewarded her : they put the jack-plug on the end of her forefinger into a socket on a box they wheeled to her bedside and when her eyes closed , the reward was a vision of her scintillating meanings . |
| 16 | I 'm fine , really , ’ she blurted , stretching her mouth into a smile which she sensed did n't quite come off . |
| 17 | Alyssia stretched her mouth into a mimicry of a smile . |
| 18 | With his hair slicked wetly back and his shirt cast casually over one tanned shoulder , leaving his impressively muscular torso bare , he was a vision that turned her mouth into a desert . |
| 19 | Then she shaped her mouth into a yap : ‘ Here 's the last of them , ’ and the black bolt came hurtling towards Elizabeth . |
| 20 | The Tigress 's favourite trick consists of awakening her lovers with a rifle-butt and watching with delight as they hurl themselves naked from her window into a dungheap . |
| 21 | Nathan watched her run into a supermarket . |
| 22 | She pulled on her towelling bathrobe and slid her feet into a pair of sandals . |
| 23 | Her legs had begun to acquire a nice , even tan , and she slipped her feet into a pair of sandals before brushing her still damp hair into a ponytail . |
| 24 | She was just slipping her feet into a pair of low black court shoes when the knock came on the door , and her heart leapt into her throat . |
| 25 | With heaving stomach , Kelly had gone to the kitchen , tipped the burnt remains of her cat into a plastic bag and took it downstairs to bury it in the garden . |
| 26 | She put trees in her shoes , rolled her stockings into a ball and folded everything else with a natural carefulness . |
| 27 | From time to time she dipped her fingertips into a glass jar and withdrew them laden with cream which she smoothed into her face and neck in lazy strokes . |
| 28 | It should n't have taken her long to pack and change out of her sundress into a skirt and blouse , but she found she was folding each garment at least twice , and several times she stood looking out of the window at the busy yard below . |
| 29 | As she said it she grinned from ear to ear , physically contorted by her joy into a sort of bow , arms out stiff behind her like someone about to fly . |
| 30 | The TV presenter twitched her cheeks into a smile of farewell . |