Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] [adv] [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 2 | One day , soon after the girl 's departure , Tom had complained of pains in his chest after digging the new potato patch , a job which had formerly been undertaken by a youthful employee who had also disappeared into the army . |
| 3 | Now someone whose doctor is elderly could quite naturally refer to him or her using ( 45 ) where superscript 3 indicates rising tone while mid tone is indicated by the absence of a superscript numeral : ( 45 ) The following sentence : ( 46 ) is also perfectly acceptable , and might even be translated by the same words of English but it carries instead the meaning that the person concerned ( who might be twenty-six years old and a fairly fresh graduate from medical college ) has been established as one 's doctor for some time and is not , for example , another practitioner who has recently moved into the district . |
| 4 | Only occasionally did she encounter fugitives from the slaughter who had wisely dodged into such hidey holes . |
| 5 | Then his gaze moved to Merrill as Heather pulled Rob away to meet a small group who had just come into the room . |
| 6 | " I say , you do n't happen to know how this blessed thing works , do you ? " he asked the person who had just come into the music-room . |
| 7 | Would it be enough , for example , that a person published material to a handful of his neighbours urging them to make life difficult for a black person who has recently moved into the neighbourhood ? |
| 8 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 9 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 10 | Could she believe how well her son was faring against a man who had twice stepped into the ring with Mike Tyson ? |
| 11 | He looked like a man who has just stepped into an empty lift-shaft . |
| 12 | Kirov 's face bore the unmistakable look of a man who has deliberately walked into a cage of lions and emerged again unscathed . |
| 13 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 14 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 15 | And into the confusion strolled an elderly passer-by who had just popped into the hotel for a quiet ploughman 's lunch and nearly passed out instead . |
| 16 | In stark contrast to the attitude of the Scribes and Pharisees , Jesus pointed to a poor widow who had just come into the Temple and placed two small coins into the offertory box . |
| 17 | The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access . |
| 18 | After tonight , the next stage of Rangers ' journey is the visit to Marseille on 7 April , which dispenses with any margin for error against a Brugge side Smith expects to be fortified by the return of the Hungarian sweeper , Laszlo Disztl , and Stephane van der Heyden , the young midfield player who has recently broken into Belgium 's national side . |