Example sentences of "and [conj] she [verb] into " in BNC.

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1 The house was quiet , no sign of Matey 's bustling presence , and when she walked into the kitchen , taking off her shabby black hat , pulling the hat pins out of her abundant hair , she found Dr Neil , sitting at the kitchen table , his tea before him , quite alone .
2 Going back along the ditch and down beside the house , she tried to convince herself that no one would have heard her love-shriek , but she was already frightened that they had , and when she tiptoed into the scullery and crossed to her straw pallet in the corner , her fear increased tenfold , for she was immediately certain that the blanket had been moved and that someone had been there in the scullery only minutes before .
3 My mother was his niece , and the only daughter of his only sister , but she was as foot-loose as he , and when she married into France she never kept in touch with her English connections at all .
4 And when she went into the garden all she could see were some fading lupins and irises , not enough to fill one vase .
5 Aggie accompanied the gangling totter to his cart and when she peered into the cardboard box and saw the kitten she shook her head sadly .
6 all of them so when her class came up , cos she 'd been with the class right from nursery and when she put into this you know , with the double third year , cos they go upstairs for third and fourth year and they really do classes below she did n't know anything in the class !
7 That had to be suspicious , and as she went into the hall later to go to her room he followed .
8 She left Helen and Joanna staring open-mouthed , and as she got into her car she was as puzzled as they were .
9 She hurried back to the bed and snatched up her dressing-gown , and as she shrugged into it she saw the note that was carefully pinned to the pillow .
10 Grey House was a very exclusive girls ' school , and as she drove into the extensive grounds the next morning Jenna felt the peace of the place close over her as usual .
11 And as she looked into his eyes , again she remembered the revelation that had so taken her by surprise .
12 And as she passed into unconsciousness she saw her father standing there , the portable cannon at his hip , its fat muzzle smoking .
13 But someone needed her , and as she broke into a run , she went over the differential diagnosis of a faint in her mind .
14 A sudden fear gripped Lucy , and as she peered into the impenetrable shadows on either side she realised that the bush by day and the bush by night were two totally different places .
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