Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] into [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Lae declared that ‘ oppression does not stand on the doorstep with a toothbrush moustache and a swastika armband ’ ; and millionaire QCs , who think legal aid is something once organised by Bob Geldof , spoke movingly about their willingness to take the next indigent client who wandered into their chambers with a blank cheque . |
| 2 | Before she could say more , she was confronted by a flaring rushlight held in the hand of a wiry little man who peered into their faces . |
| 3 | I spoke to a middle-aged woman in Sunderland who moved into her council house when it was new thirty years ago . |
| 4 | I remember a student who dropped into our home two years ago on his way around Europe . |
| 5 | They might take it only from those who came into their bailiwicks from outside , with their permission , to buy underwood , timber , bark or charcoal , to carry it elsewhere to sell it , and from no others . |
| 6 | She often witnessed his eccentricity in full flow at the customers who came into his antiques shop . |
| 7 | He even bullied the women who came into his shop , selling them things they did n't really want to buy and refusing to stock things that they did . |
| 8 | He was even capable of finding some credit in it for himself : for after all , it proved that he did not have to take every apparently unprotected woman who came into his sights . |
| 9 | ‘ Did you know that those Yugoslavians who came into your hands had very good reasons to fear for terror ? ’ |
| 10 | I had come out relentlessly to my family , my friends , colleagues and everyone else who came into my life . |
| 11 | But I 've put him in touch with engineer Eric Pendry who came into my office nine years ago with a story about his son , Paul , who was also shot dead on an SAS live-fire training exercise . |
| 12 | ‘ Apart from selling many more Reed titles , ’ he says , ‘ the key fact to come out of it was that more than half the customers who came into our shops to buy a promoted Reed title at a lower price bought on average two-and-a-half books at full price , and so the venture , as far as we were concerned , was highly profitable . ’ |
| 13 | I mean what we would do is , is very rigorously look at er more of whatever was going to be discharged from any company who , who came into our region . |
| 14 | He now asserts that it was this God-man Jesus Christ who came into our world , was baptized and died . |
| 15 | " One night , " said Carter , " I started to thumb through its pages and I called my wife , Rosalyn , and I called my daughter , Amy , who climbed into my lap , and we spent several hours studying the beautiful history that this book portrays of Persian , of Iran , of its people … " |
| 16 | Ronnie 's story was splashed over the Sunday papers telling how he had bought the cabinet for fifty pounds from someone who walked into his shop . |
| 17 | ‘ A man who walked into my room said ‘ That 's what you 're going to get ’ , pointing to a raw open scar down his chest , and he said he felt great . ’ |
| 18 | Businessman Steve Murray is offering a reward for information leading to the successful prosecution of a thief who smashed into his Mercedes car and stole a computerised CD player while it was parked in Scarborough Street , Hartlepool . |
| 19 | The party 's candidate , Dr Laurence Kennedy , 43 — a hospital consultant whose family was held at gunpoint last November by Republican terrorists who broke into their Holywood home — was at the forefront of a lengthy battle to force the Conservative hierarchy into allowing Northern Ireland 's Tories to campaign officially for the party of government . |
| 20 | BARMAID Saskia Hobson shot and wounded two of three armed raiders who broke into her pub and threatened to kill the landlord . |
| 21 | Who broke into your house in the middle of the night and , after paying the usual compliments to your stereo , got on with the job of pouring scorn on your most cherished convictions ? |
| 22 | ‘ Do I take it that you work for the same man as the two who broke into my house ? ’ she asked . |
| 23 | The first one relates to the child who broke into my car , I wo n't call him a child he 's a bloody toerag as far as I 'm concerned , who broke into my car has been given a caution , a bloody caution . |
| 24 | The first one relates to the child who broke into my car , I wo n't call him a child he 's a bloody toerag as far as I 'm concerned , who broke into my car has been given a caution , a bloody caution . |
| 25 | A man of 77 has been robbed at knifepoint by two raiders who broke into his home . |
| 26 | A 79-YEAR-OLD man was struck with a hammer by a burglar who broke into his home , Teesside Crown Court heard yesterday . |
| 27 | At Bucharest the Turks had promised an amnesty for the Serbian rebels , but before the sultan 's authority could be established , the Turkish , Albanian and Bosnian Muslims who formed the occupying army pillaged and looted in a reign of terror which included the killing of all males over the age of fifteen in some areas , the enslavement of women and children , and the brutal torture of any Serbian leaders who fell into their hands . |
| 28 | ‘ Luke Denner , you see , did n't know how to handle this girl who fell into his life out of nowhere , who mixed him up and puzzled him too , because there was something , someone else beneath the surface . |
| 29 | GENTLE gorilla Jambo who saved a young boy who fell into his pit died yesterday . |
| 30 | He hunted down the Breton forces , executing all those who fell into his hands and organizing retaliatory raids on Geoffrey 's estates . |