Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Just as a matter of interest , would you have believed me if I 'd said that I 'd bumped into an old acquaintance near the museum ? ’ |
| 2 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 3 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 4 | Young Trotsky finished his printing and began to pack the copies I had stapled into an old US Army haversack . |
| 5 | ‘ Since coming back from maternity leave I have plunged into a new area . |
| 6 | She has grown into an elegant and gracious woman , but lost none of the spark that made her such an endearing young bride . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She had changed into a golden dress of a loose-flowing kind , and had brushed her hair back to reveal a high , broad brow . |
| 10 | She had changed into a loose gauzy nightdress and released her hair so that it fell , witch-like , over her shoulders . |
| 11 | She had changed into a striped shirt and a pair of faded jeans that were slightly too large for her . |
| 12 | ‘ You sound as if you have turned into a brainless ninny , like the rest of them , ’ Catherine said crossly . |
| 13 | This relationship is evidently not to be confused with a sexual relationship ; it is just that once you have entered into an artistic liaison of this intensity , the sexual shenanigans are likely to follow . |
| 14 | Once you have got into an improvising state of mind almost any piece of furniture will begin to develop potential . |
| 15 | You have come into a classical company which makes sense of that training but what other ingredients do you think vital ? |
| 16 | But in our time , it 's very quiet now so we 've we 've moved into a different routine again , where I have two two sergeants out at one time , changing over er frequently so they do n't get bored . |
| 17 | That is a stocking machine that we 've turned into an outer-wear machine . |
| 18 | ‘ Or perhaps we 've strayed into a black hole , ’ Philip Swallow continues , evidently enchanted with his flight of astronomical fancy . |
| 19 | All at once , I sat up as if electrified , for we had driven into a large corrugated iron compound , and there were British soldiers everywhere ! |
| 20 | ‘ As to not knowing me , I think we have fitted into a peculiar relationship very quickly . |
| 21 | At a Conservative party meeting on 28 August , Amery noted that Horne ‘ on the whole agrees with me that we have got into a considerable mess and that the great thing is to extricate our people as soon as possible , ’ while Hailsham in his speech ‘ supported entirely what had been done but trusted that it would not last longer than two months — whereat loud cheers ’ . |
| 22 | Within seconds they 'd piled into a battered Mercedes and were fighting their way out on to the airport road . |
| 23 | The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line . |
| 24 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 25 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 26 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 27 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 28 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 29 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 30 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |