Example sentences of "had [adv] [adv] [verb] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Germany predominating , they also shared the iron ore deposits of the Saar basin and Lorraine ( these last had only just come into use , because of the discovery by an English chemist , Thomas , of a way of making steel from iron ore with a high content of phosphorus ) . |
| 2 | When the history of the church was being researched a footnote in an 18th century volume identified a drawing of some stained-glass panels which had long since fallen into disrepair and had been replaced by plain lights . |
| 3 | From her bedroom window she could see the mountain rising up in a steep and slippery slope above a deep quarry , which had once been worked for limestone but had long since fallen into disuse . |
| 4 | Now this yarn had long since passed into history of ancient Highland folklore , and the WAAFs and airmen could have lived happily ever after . |
| 5 | In this case , the Law Lords chose to say that the GLC had not adequately taken into account the interests of the rate payers and that the interests of the users of public transport had been unduly preferred . |
| 6 | In all of this there existed an air of the cottage industry , with an informality that , consciously or not , took its measure from the example of its chairman , who continued to live and work — now with the added impedimenta of potties and baby-gates — on a houseboat on the Regents Canal ; who drove a second-hand Volvo ; and who had not long come into possession of a washing-machine . |
| 7 | In 1970 , an all-party Committee of the Council had been set up to examine the future of the tramway ; rising costs had once again called into question the future of winter tramway operations . |
| 8 | Meanwhile the return of a Labour Government in 1974 had once again brought into question the status of Direct Grant schools , and it was announced in Parliament on 11th March that it was intended to phase out the system over a period of seven years , commencing in September 1976 . |
| 9 | Writs for the holding of the regard in forests such as Sherwood , Galtres , pickering , Inglewood and Rutland continued to be sent out from the Chancery during the fifteenth century , but the Forest Eyre , which would have punished offences revealed by the regard , had now almost fallen into desuetude . |
| 10 | As she was drugged up to the eyeballs on arrival , she had n't yet gone into shock but they were expecting it and , if she survived , then miracles could be performed . |
| 11 | The Dalriadic Scots and the Britons , probably of Strathclyde , whom Ecgfrith had almost certainly driven into alliance with the Picts in 685 through his claims to supremacy over them ( see above , p. 100 ) , regained their independence , and the Picts threw off the overlordship of the northern Anglian king and recaptured territory formerly held by the Angles ( HE IV , 26 ) . |