Example sentences of "she [be] [verb] [adv] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would she be taken out into the slaughter yard behind the servants ' quarters and have her throat cut ? |
| 2 | Tell Mamma she 's run out into the rain — what a bad animal she is ! ’ |
| 3 | She was flung up into madness , as she rode the whirlwind . |
| 4 | She was sinking slowly into it . |
| 5 | She was sinking down into a dream , aware only of the warmth of his body wrapped intimately against her own . |
| 6 | She was looking up into Aggie 's face now . |
| 7 | His eyes were so alive that she felt she was looking straight into the source of his pleasure — he was the sort of man who thrived on challenge and went out to meet it head-on . |
| 8 | Her gaze distant , as though she was looking back into the past , she continued , ‘ It would n't have been easy , staying here , but I dare say we would have managed . |
| 9 | She was looking out into the vault of air above the sea . |
| 10 | She had little choice but to let him draw her close against him , until she was pressed tightly into the hard curve of his body . |
| 11 | She was pressed back into her seat as the craft began to speed up . |
| 12 | She was speaking blindly into the mirror , concentrating on smudging violet shadows onto her closed and bulging eyelids . |
| 13 | Abruptly the dream finished and she was plunged back into reality . |
| 14 | Anne could see that she was biting deeply into the pillow . |
| 15 | She was calling out into the mist and he listened and did not move . |
| 16 | Shelley wondered if she was reading more into his comments than he actually meant . |
| 17 | She had looked up ; and like the sunflowers she was facing right into the heart of the brightness which preceded the sun . |
| 18 | Any lingering dreams died and she was propelled back into her normal character speedily . |
| 19 | Kate felt she was tumbling headlong into something that she was not strong enough to fight . |
| 20 | She was led away into a crisp-looking cell where she was measured and weighed ; a careful , polite pair of hands found a vein in her strong arm and removed a vial of her blood . |
| 21 | His voice was deceptively innocent , and she was led right into the trap . |
| 22 | It was only as she was heading out into the road that she raised her eyes to the rear-view mirror . |
| 23 | Time was ticking by , and she was heading deeper into the unknown depths of Plenty . |
| 24 | It was hardly a stately progress , but as she made her triumphant way back the seas of people around her grew and grew , so that she was accompanied back into the parade ring by a whooping mob , pushing and shoving to get to her , all carried along on a tide of exultation . |
| 25 | Grainne stood very still and knew she was going forward into something that might well be a delight , but that might also be a torment . |
| 26 | Somehow , however , she had conspired to change places with Oliver so that she was staring triumphantly into Sir Thomas 's face diagonally up the table . |
| 27 | A little startled , she looked up , and was more startled because Ven was much closer than she had thought , and she found she was staring straight into a pair of inscrutable and penetrating dark eyes . |
| 28 | She was walking right into it with a smile on her face ! |
| 29 | By choosing to go northwards , she was walking directly into the driving wind but she pressed on , bent low over the walking stick to try to protect her face . |
| 30 | Then the dome was echoing with the last anthem : she was walking out into the September sunshine on João 's arm ; the crowds were cheering in the streets , gasping at the splendour of her dress and showering her with flowers and petals . |