Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | African states went to war with each other often enough to have a large number of captives to sell , and competition among the slave traders encouraged this and pushed them into searching aggressively for slaves among their neighbours or else finding themselves enslaved by their better-equipped rivals . |
| 2 | Mike dragged me clear and carried me into the house . |
| 3 | I have no idea how I was , although Jack and my relieved director assured me that the audience had just been coolly first-nightish and we , the cast , had stayed calm and thawed them into real pleasure and ultimate Rejoycing . |
| 4 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 5 | His eyes went to her head and he snatched her hat free and flung it into the back of the car . |
| 6 | He pushed the dress free and lifted her into his arms , walking to the bed , and Maggie made a small whimpering noise she did n't even recognise , a softly feminine noise of submission . |
| 7 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 8 | One of the younger men charged up to Sabine and pulled her into the circle . |
| 9 | He wadded the money up tight and shoved it into one of the pouches on his Sam Browne belt . |
| 10 | Mr McTavish , studying Nails closely , thought the boy was ill and took him into the kitchen and made him a cup of tea . |
| 11 | His friend Sir Thomas Lauder of Grange and Fountainhall tells of one humorous incident where Geikie once followed a particularly pompous , pot-bellied and self-assertive porter through the marketplace sketching as he went until the victim got angry and chased him into a house from whose attic window Geikie completed the sketch with some extra touches to show features of indignation to perfect the picture . |
| 12 | Instead of throwing it away he took out the foil and smoothed it on his knee , then folded it very small and slipped it into his shirt pocket . |
| 13 | Early this year my wife parked her car in the college car park , collected up books , yarns and accessories first and took them into the classroom . |
| 14 | She lit one and carried it into the ballroom , where the silver light from a large moon cast shadows on to the wood floor . |
| 15 | She reached over the piano to a pile of little plastic cups , grabbed one and shoved it into my hand . |
| 16 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 17 | He found sweeping the floor too boring and manoeuvred himself into a role making electrical control panels . |
| 18 | As the more doggedly political of the two , Reid in particular despised Richard Branson as an ‘ entrepreneur hippie ’ who had sold out everything that was exciting and subversive about the Sixties and turned it into big business . |
| 19 | A two-goal flourish in the 3-0 win at Sheffield Wednesday lifted his Premier League tally to seven and thrust him into the frame for an England debut in Spain on Wednesday . |
| 20 | Although it was raining and freezing cold outside , we all got ready and pulled ourselves into our wet suits and set off for the river . |
| 21 | We walked past three doors , then he opened the next and showed me into the study . |