Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | The little maid whom Elisa had seen earlier standing by the door in the sitting room came into the dining room on both occasions and whispered something into his ear . |
| 2 | Then he leaned forward and whispered something into his left ear . |
| 3 | I watched as he sat next to him , and whispered something into his ear , the small man cringed slightly and looked as the middle aged woman had done at the tattered ‘ Summer Sun ’ adverts . |
| 4 | The Levellers articulated this awareness , and channelled it into a coherent set of democratic political demands . |
| 5 | They sorted through the books and divided them into two lots . |
| 6 | Bragg tipped the contents of the drawer on to the table , and divided them into two piles . |
| 7 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 8 | Legally those having less than the minimum of 40s. in goods should have been assessed on wages or ‘ profits for wages ’ , which were often treated as interchangeable , though sometimes carefully distinguished : in Goldspur hundred on the Kentish border assessments on profits were specified in 1524 , but in the next year the assessments roped in more small taxpayers and divided them into fifty-one on wages , forty-six on profits and seven on goods . |
| 9 | For example , Williams calculated the cost per QALY of a range of health care interventions and divided them into ‘ strong candidates for expansion ’ and ‘ less strong candidates for expansion ’ 1 to illustrate what could be achieved by using available data and to argue for further refinements . |
| 10 | In one such experiment , L. R. Donaldson and G. E. Allen took 72,000 young salmon at the ‘ fingerling ’ stage ( when they are about one year old ) from the Soos Creek Hatchery in Washington ( for locations see Figure 4.5 ) and divided them into two groups . |
| 11 | So he 'd taken an upstairs room and divided it into six spaces , figuring he could charge £1.50 an hour for each of them and really coin it in . |
| 12 | He placed the beings , pictured as animals , in a belt embracing the known universe , and divided it into the twelve equal houses of the zodiac ( Aries , Taurus , Gemini , Cancer , Leo , Virgo , Libra , Sagittarius , Scorpio , Capricorn , Aquarius and Pisces ) . |
| 13 | They then measured the distance between Hartwell and Roade Station and divided it into three equal parts . |
| 14 | He sat down and plunged himself into his work . |
| 15 | As she could hear Jack coming down the stairs she returned to the kitchen and picked up the metal spoon and plunged it into the saucepan which she had not yet put on to heat . |
| 16 | In his fury Pascoe might have grabbed the knife — which could have belonged to MacQuillan and been to hand — and plunged it into him . |
| 17 | He saw her state at once and without another word took her arm and led her into the little sitting room . |
| 18 | Elisabeth put her hand under Rosa Jacobsen 's elbow and led her into the cottage . |
| 19 | He untied Dobbs and led her into a large dark shed . |
| 20 | But it took a trained observer to follow her through the quicksands of her disapprobation ; a false step on the part of one of the aunts , for instance , could have reversed her attitude , and led her into a eulogy of black , into a martyred position whence the garments of all the others were an insult to her lone and exclusive widowhood , into a position where she alone had the right to flout the weight of tradition . |
| 21 | I stood up , took Flavia 's hand and led her into a little room . |
| 22 | As he took his hostess 's arm and led her into the dining-room , he did not glance again at Madeleine . |
| 23 | After the caretaker had unlocked the big front door and disappeared down the drive , Harry took Madeleine 's arm and led her into the drawing-room . |
| 24 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 25 | He put his arm around her and led her into the room , and Maggie got up to go . |
| 26 | I took her hand and led her into the centre of the dancers , as the light failed over Wimbledon . |
| 27 | He took her hand and led her into the atrium , where she turned and went into his arms . |
| 28 | They were opened with huge and ancient keys , and led one into a secret world of liquid green shadows . |
| 29 | Perhaps even more than in the case of energising Anglican evangelical clergymen like William Marsh , in the ranks of evangelical nonconformity the powerful leadership of some ministers shaped the attitudes of chapel communities and led them into collaboration across denominational and church/chapel lines . |
| 30 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |