Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] into [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died . |
| 2 | ‘ No , that 's one thing I 've always said , that with his vanity and with his looks , I do n't think he could have grown gracefully into old age . |
| 3 | By Sept. 7 an invading force from Sierra Leone was said to have pushed deep into Liberian territory held by the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , amid reports of heavy fighting . |
| 4 | A Merlin III that Ted had preserved during 1985–1987 had penetrated deep into blue clay and had thus been cut-off from the damaging effects of oxygen . |
| 5 | The economic depression had bitten deeply into European morale , in practice governments were reluctant to extend the powers of Community institutions , and the Plan itself was both over ambitious in its general aims and too vague on specific actions . |
| 6 | Her mind had set irrevocably into middle age when she was about ten . |
| 7 | Notice this latter illustration concentrating on the externals of a still picture and then having selectively to use a ‘ public voice ’ , carried less risk of inadequate work than if the group had gone straight into dramatic playing , a mode which is often used indiscriminately and without any kind of rigour . |