Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [pers pn] into an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 2 | She escorted him into an inner office where a young man sat behind a very large desk . |
| 3 | By 1737 he had begun to acquire over 200 acres of what was regarded as desolate heath-land sloping down to the River Mole near Cobham in Surrey , and he turned it into an ornamental park , Painshill Park . |
| 4 | Back inside the house he gathered them into an oversized bunch and headed for the kitchen , leaving a trail of fallen petals in his wake . |
| 5 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |
| 6 | An artist friend once remarked : ‘ I saw this chap make something out of an ordinary piece of wood — he fashioned it into an exquisite work of art . ’ |
| 7 | He ushered her into an overheated wood-panelled lobby . |
| 8 | He pushed him into an upright chair . |