Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.

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1 Thoughtfully he thrust it into the base of a bush a few feet from the path and covered it with dried leaves .
2 Faced with this united German front , Napoleon III realized that for him nothing of substance was likely to emerge from the meeting and so he turned it into an exercise in public relations .
3 Then he took her into a long flat-roofed building like a small aircraft hangar .
4 Then he lowered himself into the driving seat , slowly and painfully , and pulled the door shut .
5 Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes .
6 ‘ But then he got her into the trouble in the first place .
7 Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play .
8 Then he pushed her into the bathroom and locked the door .
9 Then he threw her into the basin …
10 There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since .
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