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

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1 These form the basis for the development of a repertoire of skills dictated partly by capacities and partly by environmental circumstances such as the particular family , community and region he is born into and the available facilities for play , education and training .
2 Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters ; and , as likely as not , he is run into Parliament . ’
3 THE MID-POINT between No Name and Unforgiven finds Eastwood as a Confederate raider redeemed after the war as he is assimilated into a rag-tag community of rejects and losers , slowly losing his appetite for violence and vengeance .
4 In pursuit of these , Mopsus proposes marriage to a fine lady and is beaten by her servants ; he steals his father 's rent money and sets out for London where he is robbed by a prostitute and thrown into gaol ; his father sends more money which he uses to bribe the gaoler ; he is tricked into marrying an aristocrat 's mistress who promptly gives birth ; the woman leaves and the baby dies ; the prodigal returns to his father .
5 Piggott is comforted by leading American jockey Eddie Delahoussaye as he is stretchered into an ambulance after his horrific fall from ill-fated Mr Brooks in the Breeders ' Cup .
6 If any character enters the chamber , he is sucked into the Chaos-stuff instantly and lost forever in the Warp .
7 His life changes as he is drawn into a dangerous aura of incestuous relations surrounding the director and his beautiful sister Jenny ( Liza Walker ) to whom he is immediately drawn .
8 This helps the patient to control his trunk movements symmetrically : he is guided into extending his trunk , stretching upwards , as he goes forwards , and then flexing ( bending ) the trunk as he comes backwards .
9 Everything goes as planned and I soon bully him into the landing net , and from there the hook is removed and he is slid into my big , knotless keepnet , where he can lie safe and recover while I try to catch him some company .
10 The plane he so nearly did n't catch crashes , and he is forced into befriending a vaguely familiar-looking German who turns out to be the brother of an old friend …
11 Wood claimed that ‘ if one follows the film 's narrative carefully , one finds that all the acts of violence perpetrated by the hero are logically motivated — he is forced into them step by step from the moment he determines to earn and preserve his self-respect .
12 One of the most subtle finishing touches that pointes give is to Bottom in The Dream when he is transformed into an ass .
13 Foremost amongst the dances are those for Bottom , in The Dream , when he is transformed into an ass .
14 Cooper argues that utility may be a better approach ; that is , to measure the utility to the user of the documents with which he is brought into contract by the system .
15 Bell says that a contract of employment is not a contract uberrimae fidei so as to require disclosure by the employee of his own misconduct , either before he is taken into employment or during the course of his employment .
16 In the recent past Stephen has been a rebel hero , and despite his good intentions he is pressurised into rejoining the terrorist cause .
17 During autumn he puts out his invisible lines that can only be seen under the microscope of the sun beams , and he is carried into the deep ocean , a balloonist travelling to an unknown destination .
18 The dog will feel that he has taken one step up the ladder if he is allowed into your sleeping quarters .
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