Example sentences of "of his [noun] into " in BNC.

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1 Like so many of Mr Murdoch 's gambles , the potential pay-off of his stroll into California 's Silicon Valley is enormous — but too far away to help pay his debts today .
2 I expected him to answer her back — there was such a passion in his music , he did n't sound like himself at all , any more than he had looked like himself yesterday — but he just struck the wires of his guitar into a discord and after that there was a beaten silence , and Doris stamped off downstairs again , talking all the way about her poor legs and her poor head .
3 Anyone who watched the drubbing poor Neil Lyndon received for his attack on extreme feminism , No More Sex War , and has a taste for more of the same will relish Not Guilty : In Defence of the Modern Man ( Weidenfeld , February , £8.99 , 0 297 81216 5 ) , in which David Thomas reveals the fruits of his researches into how The Guys have been Really Hurting because of their treatment at the hands of women lately .
4 Wallis 's most notable achievement during the period 1885–99 was the publication , in twenty slim volumes , most illustrated by himself , of his researches into Persian , Egyptian , Greek , and Byzantine ceramics .
5 Crowley 's principal concerns , however , consisted of his researches into ways of accelerating human evolution through increasing human intelligence by techniques of concentrating the mind one-pointedly , stimulating the central nervous system , and maximizing and mapping hitherto unexplored regions of the brain .
6 Still , Lazaroni has to be given credit for absorbing the pan-Europeanism of his squad into something the Europeans will need to be aware of in Italy .
7 Amid it all was their constant awareness of Moran 's watching presence , sharpening everything they did with the danger of letting something fall and break and bring the weight of his disapproval into the small chain .
8 His imitations of other voices calls for a good sense of mimicry , and should bring the dreariness of his life into focus .
9 The sea churned the banalities of his life into flotsam : sheets , shirts , sandals , books , charts , salt cellar …
10 There had been a pattern , an only too discernible repetition in the events and relationships of his life into which she had ruggedly refused to fit .
11 Richard Rolle 's at times flamboyant attempt to arrive at a form of living which would express his compulsive and impulsive drive towards personal realisation of the love of God , brought the circumstances of his life into prominence .
12 He tucked the bills behind the clock and swept the remainder of his correspondence into the bin .
13 He took advantage of the noisy arrival of Auguste 's staff to beat a judicious retreat , as Auguste hurled imprecations after him , based largely on the fate that would await him should the goose come to any harm as a result of his incursions into the chef 's sovereign territory .
14 Coolly , he thrust the point of his spear into the centre of the foaming maelstrom , and felt the resistance as it struck home .
15 Cranston jabbed the point of his knife into a piece of soft meat , mumbled his assent and continued to eat as if his very life depended upon it .
16 He shovelled the last of his roll into his mouth .
17 She had dismissed as rubbish Nina 's allegations that the men thought he was interested in her , but she had to admit he was good company , and for the next half-hour he entertained her with stories of his work in Australia , of the people he 'd met and of his excursions into the bush and to the Great Barrier Reef .
18 Here he is aware of his fall into corruption , but as yet draws neither conclusion nor consequence from it .
19 If it can not be shown that the person uttering the remarks intended to induce his victim to believe that he was about to engage in violence himself , or intended to provoke the object of his remarks into using unlawful violence , what will be termed here the objective conditions come into operation .
20 Old Joseph saw it as the beginning of his retreat into loneliness and isolation .
21 She lowered herself until she was crouched above his thighs ; slipping her hand between her legs she manoeuvred the tip of his cue into the moist entrance of her sensuous channel .
22 And under the Master 's spell , Nietzsche too was able to ease himself out of his suspicions into something more like Wagner 's optimism .
23 When Smart Lethieullier of Aldersbrook had completed his mortuary chapel adjoining St Mary 's , Little Ilford , Essex , in c.1740 he transferred the remains of his parents into the present vault from elsewhere in the church .
24 Sometimes the woodworker must step over the boundaries of his craft into the workings of other craftsmen .
25 Now , with Iran-contra , it summoned up the snoozing president ; a leader who , despite all appearances , put no more of his substance into government than the man behind the curtain in The Wizard of Oz .
26 Someone in the High Police — probably Fouché himself , we know he 's obsessed with intrigue — sees it as an opportunity to introduce one of his agents into Vienna .
27 ‘ Talking of smokescreens , Victor — ‘ ' But he just blows a mouthful at me and jabs the end of his cigar into the fug .
28 He grinds the end of his cigar into a glass ashtray littered with previous crushed remains .
29 It was hardly a success as he channelled most of his energies into drumming with local groups .
30 Thiercelin drove the butt of his musket into his head , and the giant slumped dead or dying amidst the rubble .
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