Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [be] [verb] [adv prt] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 2 | Their glances met , and for a moment Sara felt as though she had been swung out into space . |
| 3 | She had been seduced back into the house , and now everything was to do again . |
| 4 | She had meant only to run up the road for a breath of air when the rain stopped and she had been drawn on into the spring evening until now she had half an hour 's brisk walk to get home . |
| 5 | For a brief time the descendants of those Highlanders who had been forced down into the valley to find work a century before had returned to the land of their fathers . |
| 6 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 7 | A few Bronze Age artifacts were turned up in the dark soil , but they had meant nothing to those who had seen them , and they had been turned back into the earth . |
| 8 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 9 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 10 | It transpired that it had been syphoned off into private businesses . |
| 11 | They had discovered it in the bed last night when one of them had found themselves lying on it , and it had been pitched out into the darkness . |
| 12 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 13 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |