Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [pron] into the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In my teens , similar doubts lured me into the darker recesses of the family 's medical encyclopedia , there to discover I was Britain 's first recorded case of Futtock 's Syndrome .
2 The Mensheviks threw themselves into the working-class trade unions and other organizations which sprang up , seeking the fusion of the Party and the rank-and-file proletariat .
3 The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature .
4 We talked a little till her cries took her into the little theatre .
5 I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day …
6 Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas .
7 Why the Romans threw themselves into the difficult business of absorbing the culture of one foreign nation just when they were involved in exhausting wars with another foreign nation , remains one of those puzzles which characterize nations in their most inscrutable and decisive hours .
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