Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] into his " in BNC.
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| 1 | He paused , allowing a slightly abject look to creep into his eyes . |
| 2 | Then he got me and two more drivers to go into his room for a hand of pontoon . |
| 3 | He expected Maud to come into his bed . |
| 4 | Mr Vafa has again asked the Law Society of Scotland to look into his grievance . |
| 5 | If the basis of primary schools was now ( to quote Alec Clegg ) ‘ to help each child to walk into his future with firm steps and bright eyes ’ , the primary school classroom should not be a place dominated by the teacher but a place of mutual trust and co-operation . |
| 6 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 7 | But she saw his lips move and her eyes fixed on them , for suddenly she had n't the courage to look into his eyes . |
| 8 | That means Joe 's got another 16 years to grow into his new role . |
| 9 | A loose net was fixed between the prongs of the ‘ Y ’ and thus , with the open prongs held firmly in the bed of the river , the fishermen would wait quietly for the fish to run into his net . |
| 10 | Slater said , trying to edge round Graham to peer into his face . |
| 11 | Her horse was suddenly restless , trying to step back , and Morthen kicked it forward again , wrenching back her brother 's head to stare into his eyes . |
| 12 | She lifted her head to look into his eyes , see his face , read his expression , but in the long shadows thrown by the torchlight it was impossible to read . |
| 13 | Despite his efforts to tear into his food with Latin gusto , or the slicked-down hair above the urban American face , he simply ca n't appear to be a native of a provincial Italian town . ‘ |
| 14 | Yes , I mean I think erm some of us were a bit disappointed perhaps that he did n't erm find erm a woman to put into his cabinet . |
| 15 | His hand was warm and strong and Hari resisted the urge to turn into his arms and rest her head against his broad shoulder . |
| 16 | Lewis was markedly less exclusive and less austere ; but he had once borrowed a copy of Eliot 's verse in 1926 from John Betjeman , then an unsatisfactory Oxford pupil , and it had enraged him — so much so that he had organised a cabal to write spoof verse in the Eliot manner to introduce into his quarterly Criterion . |
| 17 | It makes more sense to enquire into his attempts to reform this woman , and then to glorify her and her child in a whole series of marvellous drawings , than to establish a dubious fatherhood he in any case assumed at the outset , emotionally and spiritually and with the utmost delight . |
| 18 | Talbot allowed a certain coldness to creep into his voice . |
| 19 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 20 | A farmer who allows a fox to get into his hen coup deserves everything he gets . |
| 21 | Japan 's prime minister , whose chief asset is his reputation for honesty , was under pressure to bring into his cabinet politicians who had been tainted with scandal . |
| 22 | It was another image for Preston to carry into his dreams , or nightmares , of Uncle Titch in the dock and the twelve little dwarves grim and silent on the hard wooden benches . |
| 23 | ‘ And mine , Barrow Chen , ’ DeVore assured him , allowing no trace of cynicism to escape into his voice or face . |
| 24 | He had come into his earldom only two years ago , very shortly after the scandal which had sent Dunbar storming over the border into England in dudgeon , and asking for a safe-conduct to King Henry 's court ; for the old earl had died very soon after the coup on which he had staked so much , leaving this new Archibald Douglas to step into his shoes . |
| 25 | Having achieved our reconciliation to God Jesus now asks people everywhere to be reborn of the Spirit in order to enter into his new humanity . |
| 26 | However , now was not the time to probe into his previous daydreams , and before anything further could be said a shout came from Matt , who had left them to attend to the fire burning beneath the two billies of water which hung from an iron bar . |
| 27 | Even Roddy Collins , their bustling Dublin striker , was right out of touch and was replaced late on by Glenn Hunter who did n't really have time to get into his stride properly . |