Example sentences of "he be [vb pp] into " in BNC.

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31 He 's turned into a monster since Suzanna .
32 ‘ Oh look , he 's flown into the garden with no door !
33 Somehow this is an awareness he 's built into me or I would n't be able to spot it where nobody else can .
34 He will receive the pension he 's paid into for 49 years .
35 Shortly after Frank 's release our belief that there was another hostage in the apartment was borne out when he was moved into the room next door where Frank had spent his last day .
36 Heather , from Stoke-on-Trent , says he was tricked into picking up a package of heroin by some Westerners he met in Bangkok .
37 For they had little in common , and Roy was furious with Julie when he was tricked into appearing on ITV 's This Is Your Life .
38 In practice , if there is any doubt whether it is appropriate to charge theft or obtaining property by deception , it will be natural to charge the latter ; and in our opinion it would be wise to do so , because this will be a much easier offence to establish than is the present offence of obtaining by false pretences , as it will be unnecessary to show that the owner was deceived into intentionally passing the ownership but sufficient to show that he was tricked into parting with the possession .
39 ‘ Well , yes , ’ Maureen said , then suddenly burst out , ‘ He was tricked into marriage , Joe .
40 He was deserted by Desiderius and retreated to St Bertrand de Comminges , where he was eventually deserted by his other leading followers ; finally he was tricked into handing himself over to Guntram 's generals and was killed .
41 The view is that Salmond was duped , that he was tricked into voting for the Government on Maastricht and got next to nothing in return .
42 I mean , a apart from Bertha , I know he was tricked into it by his father and brother , that marriage , but he
43 He was plunged into the commercial side of the business , first as deputy regional sales manager for ICI 's Southern Region and later — in 1963 — as commercial director of the Plastics Division .
44 So erm in fairness to him I think he was plunged into something he did n't have a hell in er hope in at that time of coping with .
45 Last September , by his own account , he was bundled into a car late one night and dumped into the Moscow river .
46 He was bundled into the back among the old tyres and coils of rope , while she climbed into the front beside the driver .
47 Jenkins locked the door , pocketed the keys , then his hands were tied behind his back before he was bundled into the back of the van after Graham and Laidlaw .
48 He was remanded into the care of the local authority until tomorrow .
49 Because Boo had not been seen for so long by Maycomb , he was turned into a scapegoat by the adults who blamed him for any thing and every thing that went wrong , and the children thought of him as a terrible monster with blood dripping from his mouth who ate squirrels .
50 In January 1944 he was parachuted into Yugoslavia as a member of the ( Sir ) Fitzroy Maclean mission to support General Tito .
51 In mid-scream , he was choked into silence by a hand that came over his face , forcing his jaw shut .
52 However much he struggled — which he did — he was lashed into line by Philip and finally took his name .
53 The second thing Victor wants to say is that he was spurred into action by the piece on holes in bread , which has put one or two of you into a right old sandwich .
54 He was just beginning to worry about his fuel situation when he was called into the searchlight area , only to be fired on by A.A. He advised Control that he was coming in to land and requested that the flare path be lit , but was advised that there was still an alert in force and therefore no flare path could be employed .
55 At eleven thirty he was called into James Cadogan 's office to talk about the best way to handle their latest commission .
56 He was called into the Northern Ireland manager 's U-21 training squad last summer .
57 Evans ' team mates are sure to believe that he was tempted into French RU by the pay , reputedly twice that earned by League players there .
58 He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces .
59 He was inexperienced and little known before he was propelled into the highest office by his friends ' ambition for him and by the deadlock between Long and Chamberlain in 1911 .
60 To this day he thinks that he was accepted into the Royal College chiefly because Minton felt strong sympathy with the macabre apparition he presented .
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