Example sentences of "who [verb] [vb pp] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing his first programme yesterday , he spoke of the ‘ awesome responsibility ’ of following Joan Knight who has turned it into one of the most successful theatres in the country with an average audience of more than 7,000 people for each production . |
| 2 | In 1986 Metromedia 's six US television stations were sold to Rupert Murdoch , who has grouped them into the Fox Television network . |
| 3 | Although we have a joint account , he is the one who has taken it into overdraft and I do n't see why I should do as he suggests . |
| 4 | But he 'd been in his prime then , a match for any King Lud who 'd taken it into his weak head to break into the Dallam weaving sheds , in the dead of night , and start smashing his machines to bits . |
| 5 | A silly little girl who 'd got herself into trouble ! |
| 6 | Just another little Irish girl who 'd got herself into trouble . ’ |
| 7 | Whether we call some individuals Ranters , others Levellers , Diggers , Muggletonians , early Quakers and so forth and then present them either as a type of ‘ lunatic fringe ’ to mainstream developments or , as Hill eloquently puts it in his The World Turned Upside Down : ‘ the attempts of various groups of the common people to impose their own solutions to the problems of their time , in opposition to the wishes of their betters who had called them into political action ’ is a matter of current political alignment and represents the way we wish to intervene in the present as in the past . |
| 8 | I looked around for this other speaker , this eminent historian who had been right in the middle of the action , this acute analyst who assembled with such thoroughness the material I too had worked on , who had packed it into enlightening and readable volumes . |
| 9 | An authoritative denial of the Donaldson item came in and Rain passed it to Holly who regretted believing the man or the MacQuillans who had pushed her into writing it . |
| 10 | Before Saragossa the two Frankish hosts joined together , and the king received homage from those Saracen chiefs who had invited him into Spain as their protector . |
| 11 | By pure chance , while walking up a street in London , Eric had met a friend who had invited him into White 's Club for a drink . |
| 12 | Once again I met up with the old Frenchman who had invited me into his home . |
| 13 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 14 | This was won by Ruby Lansley who had turned hers into a caterpillar . |
| 15 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 16 | The servant , who had followed them into the room , put her arms round her and comforted her . |
| 17 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 18 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 19 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 20 | It was Clive who had got her into this mess . |
| 21 | Kimon , therefore , was dumped by ( among others ) his own troops of a few months before — he was , after all , the man who had got them into the Ithome mess . |
| 22 | Before I left I tried to ring Nassim Nassim , my erstwhile landlord and Sunil 's cousin and , I 'd decided by now , the man who had got me into this mess . |
| 23 | It was Theo and their father in unholy alliance who had talked him into abandoning Sien when she was on the mend , he now alleged . |
| 24 | Nine of the birds , confiscated from poachers who had smuggled them into the US from Mexico , have survived and seem to be doing well . |
| 25 | So Lexy was one of the three girls mentioned by the whispering woman who had shown her into the Seraglio . |
| 26 | Any dregs of left-over resentment were directed at Alain Lemarchand , the man who had forced her into this , the man who had forced both of them into it . |
| 27 | Somehow , though , Leith 's sensitivity picked up a strained atmosphere as she pulled her glance back from the stocky man who had taken it into his head to start walking over . |
| 28 | One such building in the suburb of Karlshorst was a Stasi training centre less than a year ago , and has now been handed over to local artists , who have turned it into a Kunst Haus ( art house ) and bar . |
| 29 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 30 | The racial success story turns those who have made it into narrative role models for the next generation , who are pledged to follow in their footsteps ‘ one day ’ . |