Example sentences of "he [verb] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he fallen into the canal ? |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm on the ground floor , ’ he whispered into the machine . |
| 3 | Fenna dived low over southern Africa , where his shadow presence in the night would simply meet with old dreams and young magic , and he plunged into the dancing spume of Mosi oa Tunya , ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ , now called the Victoria Falls . |
| 4 | Elbows in , hands on vizor , and legs bent together , he plunged into the water . |
| 5 | Rather than following , he plunged into the passageway between the bars , seeking his mate . |
| 6 | Eventually he limped into the channel , recovered his breath , and went back for more . |
| 7 | He passed into the saloon , found the companionway at once and descended to a central passage . |
| 8 | In that year he passed into the service of Richard de Clare , seventh Earl of Gloucester [ q.v. ] , as his steward and went round the earl 's estates hearing complaints against the earl 's officials . |
| 9 | Father Kipling stooped and said a few words to them as he passed into the sacristy to vest , and they turned round and looked at Clare . |
| 10 | He crept into the kitchen and closed the door behind him , making sure its heavy curtain stretched right to the wall on either side . |
| 11 | An infra-red scanner winks its inflamed eye at him as he goes into the lounge in search of reading matter . |
| 12 | Dan man you 've got th Dan you know the tape that we were recording last night , you 've got ta hear it yeah there 's this bit , yeah , where erm Alex just walks off yeah with the Walkman yeah and he goes into the toilet |
| 13 | Just as Tite himself , it occurs to me , is going to be doing when he goes into the witness-box at Summerchild 's inquest later that summer and tells the Coroner — I turn back in my file to the copy I took of the cutting — that Summerchild was working on conditions of employment in the Civil Service at the time of his death . |
| 14 | no the gourmet like detective yeah and they come in and they go God that was a tough crime and he 'd go after a crime I like something to eat and then he goes into the kitchen and he 's going |
| 15 | and that 's put on and if , we say for argument sake that er she was married , we know she 's not , but she could be and her banns are in and her husband gets wind that she 's getting married again , you know , so he goes into the registrar office has a look , and she 's already married to me and this is what it 's for |
| 16 | He goes into the bedroom and puts on a clean white shirt and a suit . |
| 17 | When he rode into the yard of Cherry Tree Farm , Elizabeth was approaching the house with a pail of milk . |
| 18 | As he rode into the tent , he was careful to keep his face away from her , and remain wrapped in his cloak . |
| 19 | He rode into the valley of Borrowdale which opened up about two miles south of Keswick . |
| 20 | As he rode into the village , he saw a group of young girls waiting outside the church . |
| 21 | Mounted on a white horse , he rode into the city which had for so long defied and denied him . |
| 22 | But once , to test this , when I offered him a smoky bacon crisp and said , as he crunched greedily into it , ‘ I did n't know you liked smoky bacon , ’ he sprinted into the bathroom and washed out his mouth with soap , screaming from his frothing lips that he would burn in hell . ) |
| 23 | He got into the company because one of its few experienced male dancers , George Gerhardt , was leaving . |
| 24 | And he , he was drunk and he got into the back of his leg with his glass and he got it out , it was a great big steel |
| 25 | When a police car arrived , he got into the back of the car . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ What you 're saying , ’ Spruce said , ‘ is that he was dead before he got into the pit . ’ |
| 27 | GAZZA knows that when in Rome , do as the Romans — so he got into the spirit with some impressive hand waving and high passion during a training match . |
| 28 | One pushed her into the passenger seat while he got into the driver 's seat and the other jumped into the back . |
| 29 | He got into the driver 's seat of our car and turned the vehicle round in order to follow the Sierra . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Barter said : ‘ There was no indication of when , where or why he got into the water . ’ |