Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 2 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 3 | He 'd driven into Adam 's Creek the same way he 'd driven into a hundred other small towns . |
| 4 | And then came the night his whole world had collapsed , the night he 'd got into a drunken brawl in a harbour side bar and punched a major in the mouth . |
| 5 | With the change from a nomadic and food-gathering to an agricultural and more highly organized form of society , man 's anxiety about himself and the animals that he hunted merged into a wider anxiety about nature . |
| 6 | He had grown into a slim blond young man , slightly ashen from his long hospital hours , a little frenzied and erratic in his gestures which spoke of bouts of sleeplessness and an adrenaline-fuelled energy . |
| 7 | Since sobering up after Christmas he had degenerated into a deep depression . |
| 8 | He had journeyed into a far country . |
| 9 | He had stumbled into a deep peat hole , hidden by heather , and worse , the heather had closed above his head , hiding where he had fallen . |
| 10 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |
| 11 | Then as dawn came up , he had fallen into a deep , dreamless sleep , waking suddenly to find his Aunt Bridget looking down at him . |
| 12 | It was surprisingly warm and within seconds he had fallen into an exhausted sleep . |
| 13 | He had changed into a dark suit as a kind of protective colouring , so that he could sit quietly observing rather than being observed . |
| 14 | He had changed into a clean white shirt and tie , and his dark pants just fitted him , though Dorothy wondered if they would stand the strain of his sitting down . |
| 15 | He had come into an open place . |
| 16 | He had dropped into a thick Geordie twang and , after laughing , he looked up and down the platform now , saying , ‘ We must be the only ones expecting a passenger . ’ |
| 17 | All those letters from her uncle , ranting incessantly on the subject of Damian Flint , how he had walked into a senior position in Swift and was poised to take the whole company from under Jamie 's nose . |
| 18 | Long before they had passed the watershed and were looking over into the jaws of the mountains at the head of Loch Morar , young Angus felt he had strayed into a foreign country . |