Example sentences of "he [adv] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I know what a hotel is , ’ she snapped , pulling him outside into the fresh air , ‘ but — ’ |
| 2 | He then spent three days at Fort King being questioned by people from the DIA , the FBI , the CIA and the DEA , and after that a bunch of US Marshals took him away into the Federal Witness Protection program . |
| 3 | Pulling on the reins with one hand and pushing the big horse with the other , she backed him straight into the drunken lout just as he flung the cloak aside . |
| 4 | The hands Maria had raised to Luke 's shoulders strayed eagerly to the back of his neck and up into the thickness of his dark hair , her fingers pressing themselves to the perfect shaping of his skull as she sought and claimed a deeper kiss , drawing him far into the warm moist depths of her mouth . |
| 5 | Only the young man 's intuitive fear of the heavy couple who had entered his shop , closed the door and locked it , and pushed him roughly into the back room , made him co-operate at all . |
| 6 | The central character is a young BBC World Service journalist who , in search of a big story , finds himself adrift in a world of moral deprivation as his investigations lead him deep into the rotten heart of the city . |
| 7 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 8 | When one of the dragomen did not perform to perfection , John Mason tossed him overboard into the brown waters of the Nile and took the helm himself . |
| 9 | I 'm saying that someone , having knocked Mr Hambro cold , dragged him across the path to the water , and shoved him firmly into the soft mud with his face under water , to die . ’ |