Example sentences of "she [was/were] [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she spoke she felt as if she were stepping into Jake 's craziness , becoming part of it . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I was staring at her as if she were turning into a witch in front of my eyes . |
| 4 | She braced herself as if she were going into battle , blurting the truth out as she clasped her hands together until the knuckles stood out like bleached bones . |
| 5 | She had n't planned it deliberately , but she even looked as if she were heading into battle , clad in a flying suit , flat boots and a bomber jacket , her long hair captured in a plait . |
| 6 | She was breaking into pieces . |
| 7 | Many have been psychologically damaged , like Yasmin , whose continuous self-injury meant that she was moved into a more punitive environment . |
| 8 | Before she knew the decision was taken she was struggling into her clothes . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Theda looked her over , and saw with satisfaction that she was sinking into slumber . |
| 11 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But just as she was stepping into the cab , she clutched me : ‘ I have loved you so much , darling Lily . ’ |
| 18 | Belinda asked politely , feeling that she was venturing into quite unknown — but surely fairly safe ? — conversational territory . |
| 19 | Constance had been there just under three weeks when she was called into the fitting room by the vendeuse . |
| 20 | The following day , she was called into Monsieur de Levantiére 's office . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Betty was so low that she somehow contrived to hurt her finger quite badly with a clove that she was sticking into an onion . |
| 23 | She could afford to pay rent — for she had decided there was no way she was moving into Ivy Cottage . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | When she reached her ambition , Hollywood , over-zealous publicity backfired on her : she was pushed into her own swimming pool by a sensation-seeking photographer along with her husband , Dennis Hamilton , who had vowed to make her ‘ the female Errol Flynn ’ . |
| 26 | She was pushed into a big office where she was faced by a rather handsome Obersturmfuhrer . |
| 27 | ‘ She was pushed into the harbour and left to drown , was n't she ? |
| 28 | Although she was facing into the room , Karen said , ‘ You do n't drive a green Merc , do you , Sam ? ’ |
| 29 | As he joined in with her laughter he felt a qualm of uneasiness as to what ideas she was getting into her head with regard to his visiting in the future . |
| 30 | She 'd known exactly what she was getting into when she had applied for a job with the commodity brokers , McKenzie Dunton . |