Example sentences of "[verb] into his [noun sg] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could tell from the amount of condensed milk which Duncan dripped into his Queen 's Jubilee china mug that he had a hangover . |
| 2 | However , just as we were all congratulating ourselves , the pattern changed and the child began to come into his mother 's bed . |
| 3 | By the time of The River , the threatening darkness on the edge of town has crept into his father 's house ( ‘ Independence Day ’ ) . |
| 4 | Even Ron Barton of the True Brit , the paper which the Saatchi Brothers claimed had taken the heat out of the Sun , had moved into his brother-in-law 's house in Kemp Town ‘ for the duration ’ . |
| 5 | Children can react in a very matter-of-fact way , like the little boy who , in the aftermath of his father 's death , climbs into his mother 's bed in the mornings . |
| 6 | ‘ At the Polish centre they told me that Marek Nowak had been looking into his father 's life . |
| 7 | The master of the horse , Kambiz Atabai , obliged , and Dr Shakhar was shown into his Majesty 's presence . |
| 8 | Thersites is a walking manifestation of the ‘ leprous distillment ’ that Claudius poured into his brother 's ears , a ‘ tetter ’ or scabby eruption ‘ bark 'd about , /Most lazar-like ’ ( Hamlet , I.v.64ff . ) . |
| 9 | A man was astounded to walk into his son 's bedroom and find him sitting playing chess with his dog . |
| 10 | Only towards Pen had she let her guard slip and that was because he himself claimed her as his own , rushing into his mother 's bedroom and hurling himself into Wilson 's arms . |
| 11 | He tried to shrink into his scholar 's stoop . |
| 12 | John pauses to go into his father 's voice . |
| 13 | But Lord Dacre was not thinking of the odd circumstance that had resulted in his stepping into his cousin 's shoes . |
| 14 | that turns into his wife 's face |
| 15 | As the one who might one day step into his father 's shoes he was also the one who stood most in his father 's shadow . |
| 16 | After being thrown out of 14 schools in eleven years , at the sweet and tender age of 16 , the boy who grew up to be Rambo , side-stepped into his father 's beauty parlour business . |
| 17 | A TOT was fighting for his life last night after a 999 ambulance went through a red light and smashed into his gran 's car . |
| 18 | A light flicked off , and he knocked and disappeared into his master 's office , leaving McLeish and Catherine by his desk . |
| 19 | Fred Hanna remarked on the supermarket sales of children 's annuals in Dublin every Christmas , which had cut into his shop 's market — although it countered by emphasising a broader range of children 's books instead . |
| 20 | In one session he blissfully sucks the cerebral nipples of his guru ; in another , he becomes restive , greedily biting into his guru 's cortex and association areas , challenging them to yield more than milk ; in a third , offering alternative views of his own , the guru 's breast seems a source of hostility ; in a fourth ( particularly in his contest with Dr Thomas Myth-of-Mental-Illness Szasz ) , his id erupts , and he threatens to tear the errant guru limb from limb . |
| 21 | He looked into his wife 's eyes . |
| 22 | Craig looked into his mother 's white face and saw lines of pain etched around her mouth . |
| 23 | He hunkered down and looked into his brother 's face . |
| 24 | Richard went into his father 's study and Peter trailed after him . |
| 25 | He had gone into his father 's firm of solicitors where his looks endeared him to wives in divorce cases , although his extreme reluctance to take decisions prevented them obtaining the best results . |
| 26 | He had to get into his wife 's office , open the desk and trust that his passport was inside . |
| 27 | NORMAN Waller was cleared of murder this week after he admitted stabbing to death a man he believed was trying to break into his neighbour 's car . |
| 28 | ‘ A fly-by-night , ’ Zvi hissed into his wife 's ear , his angry breath making her pearl ear-ring shiver in response . |
| 29 | They went to live in Glasgow when he was three and his father , who was a solicitor , got taken into his father-in-law 's firm and became a partner when the old man got past it . |
| 30 | Then he threw his rake down , took two paces across the field , and spoke into his mother 's face . |