Example sentences of "she [vb past] into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems she dressed herself up in the most provocative way possible when she got into this state and behaved like a caricature of the rich foreigner . |
| 2 | I mean she got into this barley with us ; and there was some playing about . |
| 3 | She bumped into Eurythmic Dave Stewart in a cafe in Sunderland and was promptly signed to his Anxious record label . |
| 4 | After directing the Verity films , the company she and Sydney formed during the Second World War , she moved into independent feature production . |
| 5 | Curling up beneath the window she sank into gorgeous oblivion . |
| 6 | She entered into technical discussions with the shopkeepers in a way totally beyond the capacity of Owen and Mahmoud , explaining that while she normally wore only French perfume , she was considering experimenting with a combination of French and Arab scents : ‘ une vraie Cairéenne , n'est ce pas ? ’ |
| 7 | She got it when she sailed into neighbouring Albania a week ago , the first British warship to visit the country for 54 years . |
| 8 | ‘ She came into this life knowing she was going to do something , to be and do something great , ’ she says . |
| 9 | Search the records and you will find she came into this world two years before me . |
| 10 | Eleanor Mary Milligan , as she was hastily christened the same week her mother was buried , seemed to know from the moment she came into this world at number 1015 Westfield Avenue that in order to survive she must be good and quiet , and not be any trouble to her father or brothers . |
| 11 | She remembered the things she had said since she came into this house . |
| 12 | She dropped into agitated silence . |
| 13 | She retreated into clouded vision , only half-saw the Ventoux , the Vallauris potteries , the evening games of boules under the plane trees in the timeless village square . |
| 14 | Then as Mr Wishart was about to say ‘ Thank you ’ , to his surprise she vanished into thin air . |
| 15 | Wearing neither head-dress , veil nor jewellery — save the two rings — she stepped into soft shoes of blue leather embroidered with gold . |
| 16 | But where the wood ended she stepped into another world . |
| 17 | Kate found it difficult to keep her colour from rising under the enthusiastic appreciation she was being subjected to , and , to try and break the dangerous spell , she broke into provocative speech . |
| 18 | She looked into those eyes now and her heart sank . |
| 19 | As she advanced into this room full of teenagers , pretending not to smell the rich aroma of Acapulco Gold , gracefully rippling the caftan of pink flowered silk which she considered appropriately hip casual wear , the kids all stopped what they were doing and collected admiringly around her . |
| 20 | She fell into deep sleep . |
| 21 | In 1656 she revisited Cornwall and , from August 1657 to mid-1658 , she fell into another trance , avoiding further arrest . |
| 22 | what she was getting at , she knew exactly what she was shopping for , she went into that shop , there was the list , it was handed in , I bet it took her less time to shop then , than it did later when she went shopping with a vague idea well I must n't forget this , I must n't forget that , but then the wandering around sort of oh that looks nice and I fancy that |
| 23 | There were only a few weeks now before she went into dry dock . |
| 24 | With a hoarse cry she went into violent climax , her body possessed by the pulse that roared in her ears , her heart , her stomach , her thighs and made her limbs spasm and twist in ecstasy beneath him — no longer human , no longer conscious , no longer caring about anything except the dark flood of pleasure that rushed through her and shook her till she rattled and writhed to a hot , pulsing oblivion on his body . |
| 25 | She went into another room and threw herself on a bed . |
| 26 | In Emily Carew 's presence he was kind and polite and remarkably subdued , listening with infinite patience when she lapsed into wistful nostalgia as she recalled the days when Carewscourt was the centre of social activity in this part of Mayo . |
| 27 | At this she burst into loud laughter that sounded rather like the hooting of a siamang and slapped her thighs with her hands . |
| 28 | She burst into that hooting laugh again . |
| 29 | Blue , blue eyes caught and held hers , and she burst into delighted laughter . |
| 30 | When she married a Kent farm labourer her own relatives disowned her : ‘ it was n't a very happy thing , you see , that she married into this family … |