Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 2 | Pushing his briefcase aside , he lowered himself into a chair , rested his elbow on the back , and crossed one leg over the other . |
| 3 | He lowered me into a chair at the foot of the stairs and stood above me critically . |
| 4 | He plunged it into a dish of lavender essence and was astonished how quickly the burn healed . |
| 5 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
| 6 | He led me into a corridor . |
| 7 | He led them into a room overlooking an attractive courtyard , with a paved area surrounded by shrubs . |
| 8 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 9 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 10 | Not surprisingly , he got himself into a number of violent scrapes in Hollywood . |
| 11 | Dining in one restaurant with Hugh Paddick , he got himself into a furious row with a woman doctor at the next table , challenging her views on life . |
| 12 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 13 | He flung himself into a chair and drew out his Marlboros . |
| 14 | He flung himself into a chair without waiting to be asked . |
| 15 | She pushed herself up on one elbow and , a strong arm behind her back , he helped her into a sitting position . |
| 16 | He moved himself into a reclining position , head against the padded headrest . |
| 17 | He transformed it into a stately home and filled it with objets d'art from afar . |
| 18 | Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes . |
| 19 | ‘ When we played my school a bloke managed to wangle some dry ice from work and he dropped it into a bucketful of warm water . |
| 20 | But as he drove himself into a last titanic effort to surface into the light , the pain began to divide and concentrate itself in three separate areas of his body ; his head , his right arm and his chest . |
| 21 | We owe it to the people of my own borough of Hillingdon , where only a week or so ago a teenager who had just stolen a car killed himself when he drove it into a tree at nearly 100 mph . |
| 22 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 23 | Having begun as a left-arm spinner he turned himself into a fast-medium bowler who frequently took the new ball and who at times could be decidedly nippy . |
| 24 | The real trouble with him , according to the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury , was that he took nothing seriously , that " he turned everything into a joke and made his listeners laugh uncontrollably " . |
| 25 | He turned it into a four-course meal , thus : |
| 26 | Erm yeah , Romeo and Juliet was not completely his idea , it came from a sort of long poem which he read about two lovers and then he turned it into a play . |
| 27 | Giles 's girlfriend Venetia , meanwhile , encircled by the arms of Hargreaves , had started to laugh , and Giles began to laugh too : ‘ Oh Christ , sorry , Liz , sorry , Kate , ’ he declared , as he organized himself into a sitting position , his arms around his knees , ‘ I should never have had those two whiskies at the Venables ’ . ’ |
| 28 | He showed her into a comfortable room complete with wallscreen , soft lighting and floor cushions . |
| 29 | He hauled himself into a sitting position . |
| 30 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |