Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was plunged into the commercial side of the business , first as deputy regional sales manager for ICI 's Southern Region and later — in 1963 — as commercial director of the Plastics Division . |
| 2 | To this day he thinks that he was accepted into the Royal College chiefly because Minton felt strong sympathy with the macabre apparition he presented . |
| 3 | He was enlisted into the running team , too , when an excellent runner was unavailable to compete on Saturdays , and to his own surprise did well . |
| 4 | His eloquence was somewhat impaired by the presence on the bed of the current mistress , the Roman Catholic Duchess of Portsmouth , but eventually he succeeded in having her removed and in persuading the King to send for the Queen to seek her forgiveness for the wrongs he had done her ; the King however kept putting off the administration of the Holy Sacrament , and Ken was removed from the room in Charles 's last hours as he was received into the Roman Catholic Church by a priest smuggled into the palace by his brother and successor , James II . |
| 5 | He was received into the Catholic Church in 1921 ( dropping his first name in favour of Dominic ) . |
| 6 | By the time he was conscripted into the Red Army of Workers and Peasants ( Rabochiy Krestyanskaya Krasnaya Armiya , RKKA ) in 1919 he had already shown his intelligence by graduating from a theological seminary . |
| 7 | In 1645 , when he was sixteen , he was conscripted into the Parliamentary Army whilst it was being reorganised by Cromwell . |
| 8 | Although Hayman was over-age for recruitment , he was taken into the Diplomatic Service as a first secretary in 1954 and posted the next year to Belgrade . |
| 9 | With glazed eyes he was staring into the middle distance . |
| 10 | He was staring into the black well of the stairs when he heard the noises . |
| 11 | He went from Rugby to the Royal Military Academy , Woolwich , whence he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers on 28 July 1915 . |
| 12 | A subaltern 's commission in the Hampshire Yeomanry in 1897–8 gave him a liking for army life , and in January 1899 he was commissioned into the Royal Fusiliers . |
| 13 | When he went down from Oxford he was commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers , his godfather 's regiment , and took the name of Doughty-Wylie . |
| 14 | He was ordained into the Anglican Church in 1710 . |
| 15 | For this he was hounded into the political wilderness ; but now it is happening . |
| 16 | When Allen at last found a crevice secure enough to trust to he looked over to find that he was peering into the little courtyard onto the rain-wet backs of the dejected horses . |
| 17 | After university it was announced that he was going into the armed forces . |
| 18 | He was going into the unknown . |