Example sentences of "she went into a " in BNC.

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1 He theorized that she went into a shop and lashed out a bob or two on something like a tin of baked beans .
2 Later , as a 16-year-old , she went into a wartime gas mask factory working beside ‘ real cockney women ’ : ‘ I was shocked …
3 If she went into a shop and something caught her eye — a book of Matisse drawings , a record , Yin and Yang earrings , a Chinese hat — she bought it immediately .
4 She would not travel on the underground or in an aeroplane , and felt panicky if she went into a department store and was too far from the door or windows .
5 Then she went into a shop and said : ‘ Do you realise mummy ca n't come into your shop because there 's such a big step . ’
6 She choked and spat out some seawater and then swallowed a lungful as she went into a spasm again .
7 Over a period of about eighteen months , her father hit her mother to such an extent that she went into a Battered Wives Home five times , taking her two daughters with her each time .
8 When crises arose she went into a condition of sustained fizz ; you almost expected bubbles to come popping out of her head .
9 Quigley stopped , clearly expecting her to give it a bit of movement , but , instead , she went into a sort of mammoth clench .
10 When Juliet asked about staff who had been there twenty years ago , she went into a long rigmarole about the different jobs she 'd had , and her family problems , then digressed to the present staff .
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