Example sentences of "pushed [pers pn] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He scooped up some pellets and pushed them into an empty flower pot , keeping his thumb over the hole in the bottom . |
| 2 | She pushed him into the right positions . |
| 3 | He pushed him into an upright chair . |
| 4 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |
| 5 | He lifted a strong hand , signalled brusquely for the Mercedes to pick them up , and pushed her into the rear seats , sliding in next to her . |
| 6 | The gaoler opened it , took a cresset torch from the passageway and pushed it into a small crevice in the cell wall . |
| 7 | In the Gulf , France 's lack of modern heavy armour pushed it into a glamorous , but marginal , job on the flank . |
| 8 | ‘ One member of staff left for a moment and a man in his mid-30s appeared out of nowhere with what appeared to be a gun and pushed it into the other assistant 's ribs and asked for the money . |