Example sentences of "had [verb] [pers pn] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 2 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 3 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 4 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 5 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 6 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 7 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 8 | ‘ Who are you ? ’ the teenager asked after he had led her into the main concourse . |
| 9 | When I phoned Kagan he told me that he had instructed his trustees in Israel to make the payment , but by some terrible misunderstanding they had paid it into the wrong charity . ’ |