Example sentences of "into a [noun] [coord] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She flew into a rage and vowed she would not accept Silas 's ring until he 'd evicted that bossy , domineering woman from the house in which they would begin their married life . ’ |
| 2 | She rolled the two cloaks into a bundle and laid them down on the shore where the tide could come and take them . |
| 3 | Then in his foolish exhilaration he had leaped into a tree and spotted them with his binoculars . |
| 4 | The witchdoctor poured some milky medicine from a large bottle into a spoon and gave it to me to drink . |
| 5 | With his right hand Quinn twisted a blob of the brown substance off , rolled it into a ball and tossed it across the floor to Zack . |
| 6 | He stared at the paper for a moment then crumpled it angrily into a ball and tossed it into a corner . |
| 7 | knead sand into a ball and made me carry |
| 8 | Corbett crumpled the parchment into a ball and threw it angrily at the wall . |
| 9 | I screwed the note into a ball and threw it for Springsteen to play with . |
| 10 | She took them through the square hall into a sitting-room and offered them sherry . |
| 11 | He finished his coffee , slid his papers into a folder and took me forward again to the horse car . |
| 12 | Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe . |
| 13 | Getting out of bed , he shrugged into a bathrobe and handed her his silk dressing-gown . |
| 14 | Then they led us into a building and kept us there , all together . ‘ |
| 15 | She put the child into a pram and wheeled it down the path . |
| 16 | She scooped the cuttings into a pile and tucked them back into their folder before standing up . |
| 17 | When I asked to speak for a moment with Miss Lavenza , a manservant showed me into a living-room and asked me to wait . |
| 18 | Then he dropped the rest of the portion back on the plate , went to the fridge , poured the dregs of a bottle of wine into a glass and drank it . |
| 19 | He poured the beer into a glass and placed it on a coaster in front of Whitlock . |
| 20 | I 'd forgotten to fetch something to put my hair up with , and so I brushed it into a ponytail and held it in place with a pair of knickers from the airing cupboard , which I twisted round and used like a scrunchie . |
| 21 | She screwed a wetted face flannel into a point and dug it into Léonie 's ears , then attacked her unruly hair with a hard brush . |
| 22 | I tipped some boracic crystals into a box and handed it over . |
| 23 | It broke into a shop and wrecked it , terrifying the owner . |
| 24 | This experience , acquired in an age when the chemist was regarded as an expert only in a special field , turned Davis into a generalist and made him realize that the enormous variety of industrial chemical processes could be reduced to a relatively small number of operations , and that the study of these in the abstract would enable general principles to be discovered which could be applied to any process operation — the keystone of chemical engineering . |
| 25 | Cornelius delved into a pocket and pulled it out . |
| 26 | Police are hunting two men who bundled a schoolgirl into a car and abducted her . |
| 27 | In the evening rush-hour a lorry had skidded into a car and jammed it up against one of the pillar-boxes outside the hospital . |
| 28 | They bundled him into a car and drove him to a car park at the rear of Dysart Police Headquarters and afterwards to an isolated road . |
| 29 | When he came round , they dragged him outside and flung him in his night-clothes , into a car and handcuffed him . |
| 30 | Then Greta Ross took my mother into a room and asked her more questions . |