Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 2 | On some moorlands the chemicals which were washed down have solidified into a thin ‘ cement-like ’ layer , or iron pan . |
| 3 | No , I should not have moved into the second Person . |
| 4 | He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy . |
| 5 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 6 | If Tess had moved in his arms , they would both have fallen into the dangerous water . |
| 7 | ‘ Why ? ’ asked Antony , with a polite interest which ten minutes later had turned into the real thing . |
| 8 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 9 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |
| 10 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 11 | They could n't have got into the main part of the school . |
| 12 | It would have been possible simply to have overflowed into the additional accommodation for , as we have seen , space was already at a premium in the old premises . |
| 13 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 14 | Although the total proportion of diagnoses seems to be rising , the rise is steepest in those who historically have fallen into a high risk group — that is , woman aged 35 and older . |
| 15 | Labour history too has developed into a recognizable historical research area and women 's history is following suit . |
| 16 | Like the Founder 's Day Service , this too has developed into an impressive annual event . |
| 17 | Fergie , of course , should never have married into the Royal Family at all . |