Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [verb] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Jessop Hospital for Women sucked me in and I was tucked into a dimmed ward containing three others — two delivered , one about to , by the sound of things . |
| 2 | The gate porter brought me to the main entrance , and I was shown into a small pleasant office in the front of the administrative block . |
| 3 | I was in another world by this time , inhabited by see-through creatures resembling owls and parrots ; it was a sweltering hot day and I was turning into a pond to support a dying race of transparent tadpoles . |
| 4 | As the world knows , Roth grew up in Newark , New Jersey , a second-generation American Jew , and he was to turn into a citizen of the world , a famous cosmopolitan author . |
| 5 | He heard a door creak open and he was pushed into a room . |
| 6 | Due to participate in the Shepway Airshow , held on the seafront at Folkestone , the P–38 is reported to have belly-landed at Lydd , blocking the main runway for a time , until the aircraft was lifted up , the undercarriage released , and it was towed into a hangar for the night . |