Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] into [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Perhaps I was sent to the chippie , or café up the street to fetch cigarettes , or lemonade , or to go at full haste and deliver a note to one of his girl-friends ; or maybe he simply wanted to chastise me for something I had done , as for instance when I inadvertently got him into hot water by mentioning to Mum that I had seen him with a girl ( an infamous young woman ) after he had faithfully promised not to see her again , ever . |
2 | Amanullah 's pursuit of his two most cherished objectives , to modernize his country in the shortest possible time and to make it independent of Britain , soon brought him into headlong conflict with Humphrys , whose previous eighteen years in India , mostly among the tribes across the frontier from Afghanistan , had not prepared him to deal with a ruler of such independence of mind . |
3 | Cos in those days , some of the homes just pushed them into domestic service and that kind of thing . |
4 | His easy success often led him into precarious adventures ; in 1917 the French intercepted a cable from the German Ambassador in Madrid reporting to Berlin that he had found a mistress for the new Commander-in-Chief , for the modest fee of 12,000 pesetas a month . |
5 | The reminder , so sharp and painful , in the sudden appearance of that man now threw her into aching grief . |
6 | They were always changing them to try and balance up the take I suppose , on each , each leg of the route and there was always was the chief clerk then and him and I got on very well together and he really initiated me into running times . |
7 | Pressure from avant-garde patrons like Lord Chesterfield and , by the look of Clifton Hill 's garden front , Paul Fisher , often forced him into Rococo compromises with his Palladian inclinations . |
8 | The British secret service came up with a a stroke of some genius when the stopped having our operatives shot when they caught them and simply turned them into double agents . ’ |
9 | As his own name shrivelled in the heat , he dropped the envelope into the ashtray and watched it burn to a husk , then prodded it into tiny fragments with the extinguished match . |
10 | Scots-born ( in Elgin ) , educated at Aberdeen University , qualifying as a CA , then joining Alcan Aluminium , he realised his experience and qualifications were ‘ quite narrow ’ and so headed off to Manchester Business School and an MBA which then took him into international consultancy with McKinsey . |