Example sentences of "creep into [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wanted badly to creep into her arms and be told he had done marvellously well , that she had put on her red dress and her new pumps specially for him , for his seduction . |
| 2 | Lisa was actually naïve enough , just for a moment , to allow the possibility to creep into her mind that he had kept silent in order to protect her . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , pity for that poor pathetic creature began to creep into her kind heart . |
| 4 | He paused , allowing a slightly abject look to creep into his eyes . |
| 5 | Talbot allowed a certain coldness to creep into his voice . |
| 6 | That 's a bigger vehicle and it 's full-o' benches and suchlike , ’ he said , a note of desperation beginning to creep into his voice . |
| 7 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 8 | He should stop fooling about and making the barrack-room lawyer performances that are starting to creep into his approach to the HMI review . |
| 9 | It was that for the first time something illogical had crept into her world . |
| 10 | Some of that hurt must have crept into her voice , because Mandy gave her a look loaded with sympathy . |
| 11 | A hint of duty had crept into their relationship . |
| 12 | But it 's only doable , I 'm afraid that 's an Americanism that 's crept into our language , doable , erm only if you listen to the people who 've been doing it . |
| 13 | Slowly a ‘ What if crept into my mind . |
| 14 | By the time of The River , the threatening darkness on the edge of town has crept into his father 's house ( ‘ Independence Day ’ ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Daughter of the sorceress Reflection and the creature Fael-Inis , ’ said the Robemaker , and a sneer had crept into his voice . |
| 16 | A degree of comprehension seemed to have crept into his frozen expression . |
| 17 | Last night and today a different note had crept into his complaints . |
| 18 | At first I wondered if a little of the South 's high-country ice had crept into his blood , but since I 've been here he 's begun to thaw . ’ |
| 19 | An authoritative note had crept into his voice and Melissa felt a stab of resentment . |
| 20 | ‘ I do n't know how , ’ he said softly , but a sarcastic edge had crept into his voice . |
| 21 | They all sighed , and crept into their beds , and fell asleep . |
| 22 | A few bools crept into her mooth . |
| 23 | A determined note crept into her voice . |
| 24 | THE little girl seemed to be sleeping in her bed when the fire chief crept into her room . |
| 25 | Every time Ellie crept into her dead mother 's room , she knew she should not be there , and she would hesitate on the threshold of the airless room , while the skin on her scalp prickled with a guilty excitement . |
| 26 | An irrational thought crept into her mind , the kind of thought that only reared its ugly head in the tortured small hours of the morning . |
| 27 | Then she noticed faint tyre impressions on the dusty ground and suspicion crept into her mind . |
| 28 | A note of bitterness crept into her voice . |
| 29 | The thought crept into her mind and lingered . |
| 30 | A wash of unwelcome colour crept into her cheeks . |