Example sentences of "[pron] was [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 2 | I was led into all these commitments in a very friendly and deferential spirit , and in a similar spirit of friendship and hospitality I was invited to numerous social engagements , from impressive lunch in honour of the Minister of Education to an invitation to a private home in Jaipur , where my kind host and hostess had gone to the trouble of preparing sandwiches , cake , chips ( without the fish ) and pudding , in case I should not like the Indian dishes served for the other guests ! |
| 3 | ‘ The more I followed one character 's life , the more I was led into those of several other characters , ’ he says . |
| 4 | I was pushed into certain spoRTs at school , like athletics . |
| 5 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 6 | This made me feel a quite genuine shame and remorse although — it was as if I was torn into two separate parts both rationally and emotionally — I knew that hurt bewilderment was something I should beware of : he was my enemy who would use any art to outwit me if I could . |
| 7 | We had arrived in Barbados only 12 hours earlier , and instead of dead streets and dog walkers , I was running into another world . |
| 8 | My mother called an usherette to have me removed , and I was handed into strange-smelling arms behind a bright beam that dazzled me . |
| 9 | But I was thrown into this Guild secretary business and er you ca n't do both , not when you 're trying to erm a family and then by then my son was away and erm I went got a job and the Co-op gave me a job . |
| 10 | Gradually I was initiated into other roles . |
| 11 | I knew nothing about Balder ; but instantly I was uplifted into huge regions of northern sky . |
| 12 | Soon afterwards , in the autumn of 1933 , the BUF bought the lease of the Whitelands Teachers Training College , Chelsea , which was turned into fascist headquarters , the so-called Black House . |
| 13 | This reflects the so-called doctrine of double effect which was incorporated into English law in one of the few cases that have been decided in this area , R v. |
| 14 | Throughout the course which was run into two parts , six weeks apart , role play and presentations abounded , with everybody taking part , including the tutors . |
| 15 | In fact , the Aramaic word for Zealot was qannai , which was rendered into Greek as kananaios . |
| 16 | He was an acknowledged expert in the system of ‘ payment by results ’ which was introduced into Irish national schools in 1872 , and as such was appointed by the British government to report on the education system of Trinidad in 1869 and that of Malta in 1878 . |
| 17 | In Cornwall , which was to grow into one of Methodism 's early strongholds , the teachings of John Wesley were absorbed only through a haze of superstitious beliefs and practices . |
| 18 | Its first manifesto , the ‘ Port Huron Statement ’ , launched the idea of ‘ participatory democracy ’ , which was translated into political practice first in community action projects and subsequently in various forms of direct action in the universities ( beginning with the Berkeley Free Speech Movement of 1964 ) and against the Vietnam war . |
| 19 | At this time he published his widely used text-book Elementary Chemical Thermodynamics , which was translated into several languages . |
| 20 | The effect of the infighting , together with the government 's unimpressive pace of democratic reform , meant that the ruling party 's level of support dwindled throughout the year , a fact which was translated into several humiliating by-election losses [ see p. 37375 ] . |
| 21 | In 1966 regional planning was applied to the whole of England which was divided into eight regions for this purpose . |
| 22 | For the former award he had offered his work under the title ‘ The Sparrows : Thoughts Of A Landsman ’ , which was divided into four parts : |
| 23 | Facilities for resting and messroom accommodation were provided in the riding or kitchen and mess van which was divided into three compartments , one for officers , another for the men and the third arranged as a kitchen . |
| 24 | The most extreme case was the school in Norfolk which was divided into twenty-three parts . |
| 25 | The second main body of principles governing the civil service derives from the Northcote-Trevelyan Report of 1853 which was put into full operation in 1870 . |
| 26 | The last thing she wanted him to think was that she was prying into that which did not concern her . |
| 27 | It was a skill she needed to master if she was to drop into occupied France . |
| 28 | After a few minutes , she was shown into that estimable if forbidding woman 's presence . |
| 29 | When she was maturing into young womanhood Baldersdale was well populated with youngsters of equivalent age — that is to say eligible for Hannah . |
| 30 | Two years ago she was forced into early retirement because of cuts in funding to the organization where she worked . |