Example sentences of "[to-vb] into his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fruits seem almost to jump into his hands and mouth , just dying to serve mankind , and , as with Marlowe , there is no sign of work to be seen behind this fertility . |
| 2 | A QUICK-thinking driver released his seat belt and jumped into the passenger seat when he saw another car about to smash into his door , a court heard . |
| 3 | Johnny Boy was waiting for someone to pull into his driveway . |
| 4 | ‘ You should dry your hair — ’ he began , but Leonora shook her head violently and brushed past him to leap into his bed . |
| 5 | It so happened that Hugh was the man who had been producing Tony Newley and he said to me after listening to those tracks that this was the most exciting thing to come into his room since Tony Newley which I thought was quite amazing since , some time later , David was quite infatuated with the work of Newley . |
| 6 | Simone had happened to come into his bed , he said and shrugged . |
| 7 | He expected Maud to come into his bed . |
| 8 | However , just as we were all congratulating ourselves , the pattern changed and the child began to come into his mother 's bed . |
| 9 | He is said to come into his own behind closed doors when giving Prime Ministers advice they do not want to hear — in the politest possible way . |
| 10 | Mr asked me to come into his room . |
| 11 | Later , in a casual conversation during the School , he was asked what he would do if , one night , one of the young female students happened to wander into his room by mistake . |
| 12 | It was marred by a puckered scar which had destroyed his cheek , beginning just above the right-hand corner of his mouth , but , fortunately for him , narrowly missed his eye to disappear into his hair , twisting and distorting his whole face . |
| 13 | He paused , allowing a slightly abject look to creep into his eyes . |
| 14 | Talbot allowed a certain coldness to creep into his voice . |
| 15 | That 's a bigger vehicle and it 's full-o' benches and suchlike , ’ he said , a note of desperation beginning to creep into his voice . |
| 16 | But as soon as I begin to be nice to him , a sort of self-satisfaction seems to creep into his voice and his manner ( very discreet , he 's been humility itself all day , no reproach about last night , of course ) and I begin to want to goad and slap him again . |
| 17 | He should stop fooling about and making the barrack-room lawyer performances that are starting to creep into his approach to the HMI review . |
| 18 | Angels — or ‘ angelicals ’ as he would have preferred to call them in his strange idiolect — were as real to him as omnibuses or mortgage repayments — and far more likely to obtrude into his consciousness . |
| 19 | Another source of distraction is that the initial what-questions ( first and second sentences ) are followed not , as one might expect , by an identification of the thing that inspired Rimbaud and drove him to reach into his soul , but by the pronoun It . |
| 20 | He then decided to fit into his lounge the biggest tank possible . |
| 21 | Charlton had the decency to colour up at the bare-faced plugs for his product that the worthy representing British Gas had been able to lever into his opening peroration . |
| 22 | Would n't it be simpler to sneak into his room and attack him there ? |
| 23 | Not that they were likely to walk into his bedroom , but still … |
| 24 | A man was astounded to walk into his son 's bedroom and find him sitting playing chess with his dog . |
| 25 | If the basis of primary schools was now ( to quote Alec Clegg ) ‘ to help each child to walk into his future with firm steps and bright eyes ’ , the primary school classroom should not be a place dominated by the teacher but a place of mutual trust and co-operation . |
| 26 | She allowed her eyes to smile into his — perhaps he was a little fond of her after all ? |
| 27 | The frowning policeman bent down to stare into his face . |
| 28 | The hoarse foreign words held such a depth of emotion that she pulled back to stare into his eyes . |
| 29 | Without saying a word , Piers took the book away from her and tossed it aside , then he held her face between his hands , so that she was forced to stare into his eyes . |
| 30 | He had manoeuvred her just right , pressing her into the tightest corner , standing squarely in front of her so that she had no choice but to stare into his dark , angry face . |