Example sentences of "he [vb past] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean he saw he sh great pace was shown then it was a nothingy ball that he made into a good situation . |
| 2 | Campeanu walked with his head down , deep in thought as he plunged into a dark narrow back street which was little more than an alley . |
| 3 | Afterwards he plunged into a cold water swimming bath ( the frigidarium ) and was then massaged and oiled . |
| 4 | He got into a good crowd , people that thought like he did . |
| 5 | Then he repaid into a High Commission Jamaican dollar account the equivalent , in official-rate Jamaican dollars , of the amount of US dollars he had first removed . |
| 6 | Endill had been dragging an ironing-board back from a room where everything was half buried in the floor when , turning a corner , he bumped into a tall thin man who had appeared from nowhere . |
| 7 | In fact so engrossed with her movements was he that he bumped into a young woman who was struggling with an impossibly heavy suitcase . |
| 8 | Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ . |
| 9 | David Nicholson says they were ready to write him off l ; astr season when he moved into a new stables so yes they 've got to keep going |
| 10 | This is Kingsley Black and again he looks to use Collimore 's pace and he moved into a great position there Collimore . |
| 11 | He matured into a distinguished mathematician who enriched many branches of the science before he died at the age of only 44 from a ruptured appendix . |
| 12 | For I am indeed and as he spoke he changed into a young , handsome man |
| 13 | Immediately afterwards , Oliver felt himself lifted onto one of the beds and he sank into a deep sleep . |
| 14 | Supposedly , he wandered into a darkened room and banged his head on a cupboard . |
| 15 | Rick had another take which was quickly hit ( we were becoming old hands at catting by now ) and he bent into a big heavy fish . |
| 16 | As Cooke 's name became known through his huge output of taxonomic works , especially the two-volume Handbook of British Fungi ( 1871 ) and the journal Grevillea , which he founded in 1875 and edited himself , he entered into a vast correspondence with distinguished mycologists world-wide . |
| 17 | However , after his stepfather 's death in 1859 , when he came into a comfortable inheritance , Wallis never again made the same artistic impact , though he remained an Academy exhibitor until 1877 . |
| 18 | He dropped into a defensive crouch and swung the muzzle of his shotgun up . |
| 19 | He dropped into a defensive crouch , the knife held defensively before him . |
| 20 | He turned into a dusty side-street and drew up in front of a five-storey block of flats . |
| 21 | In 1892 he bought the Pall Mall Gazette , a Liberal evening daily newspaper which he turned into a Conservative organ . |
| 22 | Just before he resigned in January Mr Peckford made himself a laughing stock for the C$20m ( $17m ) he poured into a huge complex for growing cucumbers . |
| 23 | Dennis had been abandoned and , having wandered about long enough , he climbed into a passing car and would n't budge . |
| 24 | At the weekend , he climbed into a twin-engined , four-passenger Cessna-310 provided by a human rights group … and headed back to the homeland he had abandoned . |
| 25 | Instead of riding in the Fun Minister 's Rover limousine , he climbed into a C-reg VW Golf . |
| 26 | Someone collected five dollars from Culley and he walked into a roofless space . |
| 27 | When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself . |
| 28 | It took Prescott a good ten minutes to describe the full pointlessness of his life as a stockbroker and man-about-town before the combined effects of drink and sustaining a conversation took their toll and he declined into a glazed , sullen silence . |
| 29 | He swung into a vacant parking space at that moment , right in front of the café that was tucked into an out-of-the-way corner of the city 's central business and shopping district . |
| 30 | Two miles out of town he pulled into a shallow ditch and switched the engine off . |