Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 2 | She flung herself into his arms and looked up imploringly . |
| 3 | She flung herself into her room and began to pack frantically , wanting to cry with rage and shame . |
| 4 | She flung herself into Matthew 's arms . |
| 5 | ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist . |
| 6 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 7 | Taking a clean sheet of A4 paper out of a drawer , she divided it into three vertical columns . |
| 8 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
| 9 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 10 | She led me into a bed-sitting-room . |
| 11 | She led me into a parlour . |
| 12 | She led me into the kind of large room that Americans call studios . |
| 13 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 14 | She led her into the house . |
| 15 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 16 | She led him into the sitting room . |
| 17 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 18 | She led him into the kitchen where the fire burnt cheerfully in the grate . |
| 19 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 20 | She led him into a room off the hall , a room which ran the length of the house with a window at each 0d . |
| 21 | ‘ You implied to Belinda that there had n't been anyone in your life since Jennifer , ’ said Rachel as she led him into her kitchen . |
| 22 | Gathering up the debris , she stuffed it into her pocket to dispose of in the galley bin below . |
| 23 | I had a wife once , and she got me into trouble … |
| 24 | On his saint 's day she summons him into her inmost boudoir , dismisses her girls , permits him to braid her hair and for a moment to fondle her breasts . |
| 25 | So she helped them into the boat and they embraced one another . |
| 26 | Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair . |
| 27 | For instance , when Odysseus and his men landed on her island , she transformed them into pigs , an exploit referred to by Milton in Comus thus : |
| 28 | With an immense effort of will she goaded herself into activity , striking life into her numbed brain , forcing limbs as heavy as wet sand , to respond . |
| 29 | Squeezing her fist together she crumbled it into fine powdery dust . |
| 30 | As they became confident , she moved them into faster and more daring exhibitions , inciting them to dive skilfully for a titbit or a ‘ lure ’ . |