Example sentences of "shove them into " in BNC.

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1 Then suddenly a doctor walked in all dressed up in his green gown and a face mask and said , " Hello , this is it then , " and a nurse took my ankles and shoved them into some stirrups and covered me up in all this green cloth .
2 ‘ Well , of all the nerve ! ’ she muttered , and , yanking her keys out of the door , she shoved them into her bag and marched across the car park , head held high .
3 She scoops up the rest of the cakes , shoves them into some recess within her tatters , rushes out of the cubicle and disappears into the crowd .
4 In the Commons , Mr Kinnock accused Mrs Thatcher of ‘ defending the indefensible ’ by ‘ giving instructions that in the middle of the night armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into cages and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ’ .
5 ‘ What excuse , ’ he asked Mrs Thatcher , ‘ have you got for giving instructions that in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ? ’
6 ‘ What excuse has she got for giving instructions that , in the middle of the night , armed riot police raid children , women and men , shove them into caged lorries and forcibly deport them to the country from which they fled ?
7 Take some of the features from your Windows products and shove them into the DOS ones .
8 Tanjung said : ‘ Witnesses claim that police are taking the arrested demonstrators to the central Timisoara square , where they beat them up and stab them with bayonets , before shoving them into lorries and driving them away no one knows where . ’
9 The chip man kept lifting handfuls of soggy potato to his head , but instead of shoving them into a mouth he was plastering them onto the featureless mass , sculpting himself a parrot nose , acromegalic brows and a Kirk Douglas chin .
10 I was in the fruit and vegetable section waiting to weigh some potatoes on the scales when I saw a bairn of about three years old , a bonnie wee lad with fair hair and big dark blue eyes , picking apples out of the bin and shoving them into his mother 's shopping bag .
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