Example sentences of "[noun prp] was [verb] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was out , Buxton was let into the house by Hendley and lay in wait at the top of the stairs . |
| 2 | Nor did the tide ebb once the horse was unsaddled : Jonjo O'Neill , having weighed in , hoisted the rejected Tony Mullins on to his shoulders , and the diminutive Mrs Hill was lifted into the air by the ecstatic mob . |
| 3 | Creed was looking into the sky as if scanning for omens . |
| 4 | It was used to print religious texts in Cyrillic characters and was able to function even during the period of Turkish overlordship after 1499 , when Cetinje was incorporated into the sandžak of Skadar . |
| 5 | When Churchill became Prime Minister Keynes was invited into the Treasury , where he continued to press for some sort of deferred pay . |
| 6 | It stands alongside the spot ( now marked by a bronze cross ) where Nepomuk was thrown into the river on the emperor 's orders ( see p. 215 ) . |
| 7 | Loath as Nigel was to cut into the flow of praise , he felt he ought to broach the subject of going home . |
| 8 | Then Hitler invaded Russia , everybody remembered old man Eismark had been a pinko , and Gustav was hove into the night . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Ross was speaking into the telephone . |
| 10 | ‘ Do you and Cindy plan — ’ but Ruth was coming into the room with a tray , setting it down on his desk , handing one of the white bone china cups with the delicate gold rim to Cashman , watching him take his first appreciative sip . |
| 11 | Christopher was hurled into the boot . |
| 12 | He explained Wells was placed into the care of three nurses from a secure unit at Friern Barnet hospital in North London . |
| 13 | And yet for a moment Zhukov was thrust into the position of kingmaker . |
| 14 | Mr Goldring said that after Becky died her twin sister Katie was brought into the hospital purely for observation . |
| 15 | Graham was thrust into the Palace Manager 's seat when Arthur Rowe was taken seriously ill in November l 962 , and with the club in grave danger of returning to the Fourth Division . |
| 16 | Indy and Thirty Slews , said : ‘ I was close by as Lester was stretchered into the ambulance to go to hospital . |
| 17 | A petition for street-lighting in Great Stainton was handed into the committee . |
| 18 | Colt was escorted into the Colonel 's office . |
| 19 | The Yak–7 was developed into the Yak–9 which was by far the most significant fighter on all Soviet fronts and by 1944 outnumbered all other types combined . |
| 20 | At a party conference in May last year , Kadar was replaced by Karoly Grosz and Mr Pozsgay was swept into the Politburo on the crest of the reformist wave . |
| 21 | When the war broke out , Anna was commissioned into the Army , where she did her service for her newly adopted country . |
| 22 | Jakki was ushered into the star trailer . |
| 23 | And President Delors was thrust into the centre of the row when Commissioner Ray MacSharry resigned and accused him of backing French interests instead of Europe as a whole . |
| 24 | Mike was called into the manager 's office at Vickers shipbuilding division VSEL at Barrow in August and told : ‘ There 's no job for you . ’ |
| 25 | Baron of Buchlyvie was brought into the ring and everyone agreed that it looked magnificent . |
| 26 | Quinn was forced into the back seat and down to the floor , then covered with a blanket . |
| 27 | Australia was drawn into the conflict over Bougainville as PNG 's major military supplier . |
| 28 | Johnson was elevated into the panoply of black culture heroes and martyred after he was forced into exile in Europe for seven years from 1913 after his arrest under the Mann Act . |
| 29 | The body of eighty one year old James Moore was carried into the church by his brothers some of his twenty two grandchildren walked behind . |
| 30 | One afternoon the following week , Mary was coming into the yard having been to hear the banns read for the last time , when she came upon a group of local women standing around gossiping about the wedding . |