Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh pn] [vb past] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Eisenhammer recalls the story of the Swedish diplomat who vanished into Stalin 's Russia almost 45 years ago |
| 2 | Boo was only a rather slow boy who got into mischief and had a punishment inflicted on him that was greater than the crime by his narrowminded father . |
| 3 | The school was a JMI school with over 400 pupils in ten classes , ten teachers plus a head teacher , a part-time secretary and a milk lady who came into school for one and a half hours a day to distribute milk . |
| 4 | She seems to have been a girl who drifted into relationships because she did n't like upsetting people . |
| 5 | Dressed in vivid orange , with black lettering down her legs and wearing one of Prince 's big heart-shaped mirrors on her sleeve , she could be the same girl who blew into town with the spectacular Lovesexy roadshow last year . |
| 6 | An English writer who went into self-exile just when Pound and Lawrence did , Ford Madox Ford , had always been denied serious consideration ( as he is denied it still ) , in part for having , in No More Parades at the end of a previous war , envisaged the England he was leaving in just such manorial terms : and if the Englishman could not be forgiven , how forgive the American ? |
| 7 | Besides , a boy 's allowed to have a cuddle when he has n't seen his daddy , his papa , for a fortnight , ’ Vitor said , tickling the toddler who dissolved into giggles . |
| 8 | The problem of a borrower who fell into arrears through no fault of his own should be handled sympathetically and positively . |
| 9 | The thousand odd fans of his current career who crammed into aisles to see him , were not disappointed . |
| 10 | His book Twilight over England , cites the case of a Jewish student who burst into tears when he discovered that he was only the second best and not the best in the list of those who had passed their medical exams . |
| 11 | She walked to the door , trying her hardest to ignore the man who fell into step beside her . |
| 12 | Although , from time to time , some of our colleagues on the shop floor who ran into difficulties you know , er sometimes described you as a tool of management , er which was to say the least you know , er entirely untrue . |
| 13 | No longer the wild young Wolfqueen who rode into battle with the armies of all Ireland at her back , and who took and discarded lovers at will . |
| 14 | On December 27th 110 of the 267 Democratic members of the House of Representatives signed a letter written by George Miller , a Californian Democrat who came into Congress in 1974 as part of the post-Vietnam wave of liberals . |
| 15 | Steve Gold , the computer wizard and former hacker who got into Prince Philip 's Prestel mailbox , still keeps names and addresses on paper . |
| 16 | In effect it meant that an individual who came into possession of inside information ( by way of a ‘ tip off ’ ) which had not been actively sought or requested , would be immune from the UK 's secondary insider dealing provisions . |
| 17 | You need one of those slave-driving old studio bosses if you ask me , not a sensitive graduate who went into movies because he liked the clouds in Antonioni and then turned himself into a nouvelle vague Deutscher all hot for Truthspiel . |
| 18 | ‘ I remember one client who burst into tears before I 'd taken the first snip , ’ said top London stylist Trevor Sorbie . |