Example sentences of "she [verb] [pron] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
2 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
3 | She led me into the pink-and-green chintzy sitting-room where Harry , pale with blue shadows below the eyes , sat in an armchair with his bandaged leg elevated on a large upholstered footstool . |
4 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
5 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
6 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
7 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
8 | She threw herself into the literary and social life of Cambridge . |
9 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
10 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
11 | She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove . |
12 | She curved herself into a small , tight ball . |
13 | And she frightened it into the supreme effort that carried it up , soaring and stretching , reaching beyond any achievement it knew of , until , by a hairsbreadth , it gained the crest of the fallen trunk . |
14 | She demoted him into a mere irritant with popping eyes , a frog . |
15 | He turned back again to the pill-box and , as he began to run towards it , she shoved him into the empty channel on the seaward side of the Lock . |
16 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
17 | Thrusting the heavy wooden doors of the lift open as they reached her floor , she precipitated herself into the small lobby from which the corridor to her room led , recoiling in dismay as a tall figure unwound itself from one of the two easy chairs beside a small table graced with a vase of fresh flowers . |
18 | She took him into a small office with a window overlooking the harbour . |
19 | She escorted him into an inner office where a young man sat behind a very large desk . |
20 | Finding her own pocket handkerchief , she gave it into the old lady 's other hand . |
21 | She launched herself into the tiny room , crouching , arms spread wide , ready to grab Gazzer if he made a dash for the door . |
22 | She ushered them into a small cluttered room where a middle-aged woman in a navy dress sat behind a littered desk . |
23 | She ushered him into a stuffy little room lit by bright spotlights . |
24 | Or she zips herself into a black evening gown and she 's a sophisticated 30 year old . |
25 | She pushed him into the right positions . |
26 | ‘ I 'll live with it , ’ Luke answered somewhat grimly , waiting for her to precede him into an empty lift as the door slid open . |