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Example sentences of "he [vb past] into a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
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	Afterwards he plunged into a cold water swimming bath ( the frigidarium ) and was then massaged and oiled .
3	He got into a good crowd , people that thought like he did .
4	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 .
5	In fact so engrossed with her movements was he that he bumped into a young woman who was struggling with an impossibly heavy suitcase .
6	Then he thought he was being pampered , so he moved into a dirty hovel , ‘ where he lay on straw like a beast ’ .
7	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
8	This is Kingsley Black and again he looks to use Collimore 's pace and he moved into a great position there Collimore .
9	None of Kasmin 's artists wanted to leave , except Noland , ‘ whose work had gone off anyway , ’ so he moved into a smaller space in Clifford Street .
10	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 .
11	Immediately afterwards , Oliver felt himself lifted onto one of the beds and he sank into a deep sleep .
12	Supposedly , he wandered into a darkened room and banged his head on a cupboard .
13	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 .
14	In June 1855 , his health restored , he entered into a second partnership , this time with Henry Deacon [ q.v. ] , industrial chemist and former apprentice of Nasmyth .
15	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 .
16	He dropped into a defensive crouch and swung the muzzle of his shotgun up .
17	He dropped into a defensive crouch , the knife held defensively before him .
18	He turned into a dusty side-street and drew up in front of a five-storey block of flats .
19	In 1892 he bought the Pall Mall Gazette , a Liberal evening daily newspaper which he turned into a Conservative organ .
20	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 .
21	Dennis had been abandoned and , having wandered about long enough , he climbed into a passing car and would n't budge .
22	Instead of riding in the Fun Minister 's Rover limousine , he climbed into a C-reg VW Golf .
23	Someone collected five dollars from Culley and he walked into a roofless space .
24	When he walked into a crowded bar he always found he had at least half the bar to himself .
25	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 .
26	He forged into a 6-5 lead in the fourth set but then saw King draw two shots close to the jack on the eighth end for a match lie .
27	He forged into a 6-5 lead in the fourth set but then saw King draw two shots close to the jack on the eighth end for a match lie .
28	Two miles out of town he pulled into a shallow ditch and switched the engine off .
29	Just three days after taking an intensive training course for civilians he leapt into a blazing flat to rescue a pensioner with his pal , James Hodson .
30	He listened gravely , then gradually his expression relaxed and he broke into a wide grin , then a laugh , then with a loud yell , he threw the telephone into the air .