Example sentences of "had [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a twitch of its jaws it had ripped into his hide leggings . |
| 2 | The rods had withdrawn into it , and there were n't any lights . |
| 3 | and the kid had withdrawn into his yellow gaze |
| 4 | And from the distance they looked like small stars of the sky that had formed into new constellations and drifted away on the still water . |
| 5 | Here it was , I believe , that my hero Frank Buckland , the writer , naturalist and Mayhew-like chronicler of London life , had jumped into the water in order to imagine himself a salmon . |
| 6 | Sonny , alarmed at the deathly pallor of his half-sister 's face , had jumped into the trap and had driven furiously to the village for the doctor . |
| 7 | Next minute , Kevin , Drew and Randy Sherwood , who was laughing his handsome head off , had jumped into the pool and were trying to prise Perdita away . |
| 8 | To help them find a way out of the morass they had jumped into . |
| 9 | Elaine , still holding Bernice 's hand , had jumped into Francis 's arms . |
| 10 | In a moment she had jumped into bed , dragging the thin covers up . |
| 11 | I showed them the place where the monster had jumped into the lake . |
| 12 | I heard a voice say , I then realised that the voice was mine , but before I had chance to retract the offer the JM publicity machine had roared into action and there were posters advertising the ride in every office . |
| 13 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 14 | Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors . |
| 15 | The flagstones were slippery and so hollowed out by three centuries of passing feet that along some of the walkways the puddles had coalesced into shallow canals . |
| 16 | When he left , after numerous rows with American socialists , though the class struggle was still his main concern , he had developed a new sympathy with cultural and political nationalism , his character had mellowed , and he had matured into a thinker of depth , breadth , and originality , and an orator of force and passion . |
| 17 | There were the ‘ Carry Ons ’ , a new radio series with Kenneth Horne — Beyond Our Ken had matured into Round The Horne and was better than anything he had done on air before . |
| 18 | He had plunged into the den of architects once more , and been suitably bloodied . |
| 19 | Surely not , we said , since she had plunged into it willingly . |
| 20 | It was as though Biff had devolved into an animal , even a reptile , temporarily torpid since there was no spur to action , yet springloaded to respond … |
| 21 | The builders , overcome by the tragic outcome of their vast conception , had devolved into a shelled race who spent their nomadic existence migrating from one fragment of the sphere to another , living in the ruins of their once great cities and seeing the cosmos as a gigantic jigsaw puzzle being slowly assembled by God . |
| 22 | He just could n't eat the amount of fruit and vegetables he had tucked into before . |
| 23 | The Americans ( and North in particular , who had been pitched by McFarlane into handling the Washington end ) had stumbled into the operation before they were ready , either practically or legally , to handle it . |
| 24 | He had stumbled into a deep peat hole , hidden by heather , and worse , the heather had closed above his head , hiding where he had fallen . |
| 25 | But sometimes these hiding places were found ; and I think that Ann and I had stumbled into one of these hiding places , where the women and children had lain , trembling with fear , listening to the sound of their approaching persecutors . |
| 26 | I had stumbled into the fringes of a world where cynical and ruthless manipulation of other people was the norm , and where even violence and perhaps murder was used to achieve one 's ends . |
| 27 | She would continue to define her ex-husband as diminishingly efficient , and he would go on seeing himself as an ill-equipped buffoon who had stumbled into six years of brazen luck . |
| 28 | Blanche shivered with unease , as though she had stumbled into a crypt . |
| 29 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 30 | My daughter had stumbled into Pitfall Number One for the unwary green consumer — the ‘ Bit-Less-Bad ’ trap . |