Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He tried to get into the wrong car-park and was , inevitably , confronted by a Lord 's gateman who succeeded in making far from happy . |
| 2 | Once , while a student of practical magic at Unseen University , and for a bet , he 'd slipped into the little room off the main library — the room with walls covered in protective lead pentagrams , the room no-one was allowed to occupy for more than four minutes and thirty-two seconds , which was a figure arrived at after two hundred years of cautious experimentation … |
| 3 | He 'd walked into the ordinary office on an ordinary day . |
| 4 | He began to scratch into the soft earth beside the body , until after a time his claws scraped against something smooth and firm . |
| 5 | Now , in the privacy of the bedroom of his personal suite , swiftly and silently he began to change into the black clothing he wore when prowling the night for victims . |
| 6 | a chivalric Don Quixote figure of absolute non-compromise in matters ( as he sees them ) of virtue and truth , in effect an overspill from The Idiot — which Dostoevsky seems to have recognized , for he abandoned the positive and sublime venture , and hived off the comic material he had accumulated into the drunken buffoon Captain Lebyadkin who grows into a substantial second-rank character in The Possessed ; , and as to Kartuzov , the novelist left us with nothing more than his cappy surname . |
| 7 | He had stepped into the glowing forest ! |
| 8 | He was still wrapped in the cloak he had been wearing when , as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church , he had gone into the front lines with his men , completely unarmed . |
| 9 | His accounts at the Exchequer in 1208 for the past six-and-a-half years showed that he had paid into the royal coffers out of the Forest revenues sums totalling £9,399. 9s. 10d. , with outstanding arrears of £5,569. 17s. ½d . |
| 10 | He had looked into the other world , and he had been caught peering through . |