Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 2 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 3 | The alternative had been revealed to me ; with magnificent hardihood , I had ventured into the Other Side ; was I to suffer the fate of the two Dutch explorers ? |
| 4 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 5 | Textbooks catering for the upsurge in legal education in the 1950s and 1960s sought to capture in print the mysterious unwritten secrets of a constitution which had emerged into the democratic world without appearing to have changed at all . |
| 6 | The Financial Services Act of 1986 aimed to fulfil this need , as well as to abolish some of the inconsistencies which had crept into the existing regulatory system for the financial services industry . |
| 7 | It had the foresight to see the possibilities of trade with the newly arrived Ottoman power which had moved into the Bosnian hinterland , and , armed with a papal dispensation from Urban V , Ragusa became the first Christian power to enter into treaty relations with the infidels . |
| 8 | Another strand which had fed into the cultural policy making of the Newbolt Committee emerges in an altered form within the Review . |
| 9 | In Britain , from around 1800 , traders in towns had done no more than seek to control the sale of goods and services on promises to pay later by combining into Trade Protection Societies , which had grouped into a National Association of Trade Protection Societies ( NATPS ) . |
| 10 | Miss Honey did just that , and within a couple of weeks she had moved into The Red House , the very place in which she had been brought up and where luckily all the family furniture and pictures were still around . |
| 11 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 12 | Ruth stared down at her , barely able to focus , and then her eyes darted frantically towards Rosa but she had gone into the other room . |
| 13 | She had tapped into the rich vein of local ‘ undesirables ’ , as her parents would call them . |
| 14 | So one night , when she had jacked into the sudden heavenly night inside her , Chesarynth watched Friend appear with less than her usual eagerness . |
| 15 | She had got into the wrong train . |
| 16 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 17 | The days when Miss Logan 's fluent Italian had been of use to them were long past ; having begun the journey as guide and interpreter , she felt she had dwindled into a mere hanger-on , with little greater status than the discarded dragoman or the newly-appointed Kurd . |
| 18 | She had changed into a golden dress of a loose-flowing kind , and had brushed her hair back to reveal a high , broad brow . |
| 19 | She had changed into a loose gauzy nightdress and released her hair so that it fell , witch-like , over her shoulders . |
| 20 | She had changed into a striped shirt and a pair of faded jeans that were slightly too large for her . |
| 21 | She had changed into the spare slacks and jersey he 'd brought from Golden Girl . |
| 22 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
| 23 | On Dec. 5 , 1989 , Israeli troops killed five Palestinian gunmen who had crossed into the western Negev desert from the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt . |
| 24 | I knew quite a number of people who had gone into the Civil Service and it seemed a good thing to get into . ’ |
| 25 | Although she felt like a little girl who had gone into the wrong party room , she was determined that this woman would not keep her away from her husband . |
| 26 | And Goodwin was different too , with his emphasis on professionalism , and his links with those other people , older than her , who had moved into the mainstream media . |
| 27 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |
| 28 | Thirty minutes earlier the radio had crackled with news of a definite sighting of the escapee Burrows , who had broken into a deserted farmhouse between Retford and Gainsborough . |
| 29 | Once Frank Connor had left the certainties of life in County Limerick , he always seemed like an actor who had wandered into the wrong play . |
| 30 | Mr Morton was born in South Africa , the son of a Scottish oil executive who had married into a local Afrikaner family . |