Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [noun] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his way into the building , the security officer in tow . |
| 2 | That was a lesson Stephen learned while playing in a succession of bands in London during the late '70s and , crucially , when he made his entry into the world of professional recording . |
| 3 | The issue is a narrow one , namely whether on the true construction of section 9(4) of the Act of 1975 and in the light of the facts that ( a ) Dr. Hayes was a servant of the Crown at the time when he made his investigation into the Lockerbie disaster , ( b ) he has since retired from the service of the Crown , and ( c ) that the evidence sought relates to what he discovered when acting as such a servant , the court has any power to make the order sought . |
| 4 | She stared at him defiantly , and after he had ranted for a minute or so , the chief superintendent felt vaguely ridiculous so he lowered his frame into a cowering chair , and resumed the final polish of his palms . |
| 5 | He inserted his hands into the mud , and scrabbled . |
| 6 | Repeatedly he plunged his knife into the bewildered officer 's head and chest until he collapsed . |
| 7 | As he plunged his fork into the confection Therese reflected that it was very difficult not to like a man who enjoyed life as much as Willi Zimmermann . |
| 8 | Without hesitation he plunged his arm into the open body and , rummaging there , pulled out a fistful of gut . |
| 9 | He led his female into a cave where they spawned nose to tail in typical mouthbrooder fashion . |
| 10 | He got his men into a tight huddle before they took on arch-rivals Spain . |
| 11 | Eventually , he got his key into the lock and nudged the door open with his knee . |
| 12 | Back in Paris , he expanded his government into a government of national unanimity , including representatives of all the major parties and Georges Bidault , the head of the CNR . |
| 13 | Dana claimed that he expanded his diary into the narrative Two Years Before the Mast ( the significant subtitle is ‘ An authentic narrative of a sailor 's Life at Sea ’ ) in order to represent the seaman 's view ignored in other sea-stories , but as a young undergraduate , sent to sea for his health , he presented a life of hardship and monotony from an educated point of view and seems in any case to have been more concerned with exact recording of weather , cargoes and seaman 's techniques than with personal behaviour and attitudes . |
| 14 | Dale McIntosh might sound as through he comes from North of the Border , but one look at the young no.8 's Maori features makes you wonder how he found his way into the Scottish squad . |
| 15 | He moved his arm into a myo-feedback harness ; a mechanical specimen grip unfolded and flexed in time with his movements . |
| 16 | Sighing , he let his key into the lock . |
| 17 | He narrowed his mouth into an O shape and pushed his eyebrows up into what was left of his hair . |
| 18 | The same year he reported his findings into the Ministry of Commerce after his two year probe into company law as chairman of the Company Law Committee . |
| 19 | He crashed his spoon into a neat circle in the sugar basin . |
| 20 | He bent his head into the hollow at the back of my neck . |
| 21 | With a whoop of triumph he lifted his spear into the air with the skewered mirror carp struggling on the shaft . |
| 22 | He lifted his hands into the air in a gesture of surrender . |
| 23 | He twisted his face into a grin . |
| 24 | She watched as he dropped their bags into the boot and slammed the lid shut . |
| 25 | ‘ You 're lucky you 're up this end of the Cages with us because there 's … ’ and here he dropped his voice into a horrified whisper , ‘ … there 's a couple of vultures down at the other end . |
| 26 | ‘ Sorry , mister , ’ he blurted out and he buried his head into the dog 's fur . |
| 27 | He turned his hand into a buzzsaw , and buried it in my leg , but I phantomed myself before he could breach my similie . |
| 28 | Crouching down he dug his fingers into the now cold coal dust , picking it up , sniffing at it carefully . |
| 29 | He dug his teeth into a morning apple before he dropped off Mrs Smelley 's weekly order and returned to his pitch in the Whitechapel Road . |
| 30 | He dug his thumbs into the eyes , a red bonfire blazing at his chest , and heard an underwater bubbling squeal . |