Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv prt] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early 1988 is seemed as if the conflicts of the Middle East had spilled over into the strange world of British fascism . |
| 2 | Bowater 's retiring chairman , Norman Ireland , described the purchase as an ‘ exhilarating opportunity ’ and said trading in the last four months of 1992 had been good and this had carried on into the first two months of this year . |
| 3 | The dark green sun umbrella above them threw shadows across Guy 's face , but she realised that the teasing gleam had crept back into the narrowed gaze . |
| 4 | Word had quickly got round that at the Marne , in contrast to the generals of the Plaza-Toro breed , who led attacks from the various Chateaux of France , Pétain had moved up into the front line when the infantry quailed under the German shells . |
| 5 | We passed giant slabs of ice which had buckled up into a cracked swelling over a rock and saw ice discs spinning on the surface of the water like root-less lily pads . |
| 6 | She looked back towards the fig tree and saw that the toad had lumbered off into the tangled garden , perhaps to rejoin its tormentor . |
| 7 | They walked away , and the exhibit , full of inertia and its own importance , continued to slide and pump long after they had walked on into the next display . |
| 8 | Doreen had walked out into the dark hall suddenly , and seen him walking back up the passage away from the kitchen door . |
| 9 | Relaxing in the bar of Le Palais after the sweat-soaked teenagers had trooped off into a sunny Autumn afternoon , Waterman explained the strategy behind this latest step in Kylie 's inexorable rise . |
| 10 | She had swayed back into an upright position and reverted to a tone of easy confidence . |
| 11 | Fergus had gone back into a deep sleep . |
| 12 | In a few hours I felt reborn and replete with new powers , washed clean and cured of a long sickness , finally ready to enter life with joy and vigour ; equally cured was suddenly the world around me , and exorcised the name and face of the woman who had gone down into the lower depths with me and had not returned . |
| 13 | Afterwards they had gone out into the brilliant sunshine of mid-June , the English summer being fine for a change , and Matey had introduced her to her other , lesser treasure , the curate Mr Julian Sands . |
| 14 | Nails had woken up abruptly and been angry at being discovered , and had gone out into the grey morning without any conversation beyond the threat about pulping Hoomey if he split . |
| 15 | I felt I had stepped back into a thirties ' film and that in the morning , when we went down into the bar for café au lait , Arletty and Jean Gabin would be leaning on the zinc counter . |
| 16 | But once they had stepped out into the cool air , paradoxically , the noise seemed muted , the sea no more than a distant roar . |
| 17 | The Severn Trent Water Authority brought the prosecution as the water had run off into a local water course , polluting rivers which boasted some of the finest fishing in the area . |
| 18 | There had been a heaviness in the air on the Robemaker 's approach those other times ; a cold , greasy feel , as if thick , oily fog had swirled out into the clean air . |
| 19 | Duroc looked over the reports from the engineers he had sent down into the dry sewers . |
| 20 | Slowly but inevitably they had drifted back into a loving relationship , culminating three months ago in their engagement . |