Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] he into [art] " in BNC.
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1 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
2 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
3 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
4 | Earlier , Aindow told the court that he was hit on the left thigh by the side of the car , which knocked him into the side of road and possibly on to the kerb . |
5 | He applied cold poultices to the sufferer 's forehead , which sent him into a coma . |
6 | At Oxford , influenced by H. B. Bulteel [ q.v. ] , he experienced an evangelical conversion which brought him into a circle of somewhat radical piety . |
7 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
8 | Leslie Brent was in Dovercourt for three weeks before going to Bunce Court , a happy chance which put him into the most favoured category of child refugees . |
9 | Gavin can remember little about the savage attack which put him into the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
10 | More than £2m was invested in Teddy Sheringham from Nottingham Forest , who responded with 28 goals , which forced him into the England squad . |
11 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |