Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now . |
| 2 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
| 3 | Lewis was enjoying that Tuesday , the day on which Morse had suddenly spurted into a frenetic flurry of activity . |
| 4 | The salmon had already turned into a ravening wolf , eating at my innards . |
| 5 | But Karl Hufbauer has provided a thoughtful analysis of how , before Germany was unified and chemistry professionalised in the 19th century , German chemists had already coalesced into a national , discipline-orientated community . |
| 6 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 7 | She had just slipped into a black taffeta skirt and was buttoning the front of her blouse when there was a knock on the door . |
| 8 | The serjeants at law , who had the exclusive privilege of practising , pleading and audience in the Court of Common Pleas from time immemorial until their exclusive privileges were abolished by the Practitioners in Common Pleas Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54 ) , had always fallen into a special category and before the events of 1292 to which reference is made in the 1970 judgment , Parliament had introduced an elementary form of disciplinary control over serjeants and pleaders in the Statute of Westminster 1275 ( 3 Edw. 1 c. 29 ) which provided , in the event of attainder for deceit or collusion in the King 's Court , for a term of imprisonment and for disqualification for life from ‘ pleading in that court for any man . ’ |
| 9 | The three BBC men had innocently blundered into a private war over access . |
| 10 | Under the influence of the Sussex and England captain , A. E. R. Gilligan , Tate had early developed into a fast medium bowler , able to control deceptive swerve and telling accuracy over exacting periods . |
| 11 | Daniel adeptly and too obviously converted a reminiscence of his Mum 's about a joint of pork she had once cooked into a general conversation about Christmases past . |
| 12 | It seemed to Miss Logan that her employer had perhaps exhausted her stock of civility on the long journey to Mount Ararat , and had now retreated into a stony carelessness . |
| 13 | He looked exactly the same except for his hair , which Hari had shaved off for his experiments and which had now grown into a furry black stubble through which the numbered segments of his skull could still be faintly perceived . |
| 14 | Of the other three , one had been revenge , one an escapade , and one half serious , but all had now merged into a sentimental distance , an affectionate presence . |
| 15 | Just before leaving Doune he had heard from his elder sister Agnes , Countess of Dunbar and March , that her peculiar husband had now entered into a treasonable arrangement with Edward of England , not only to hand over Dunbar Castle to the English but actually to strengthen it first , at the Plantagenet 's expense . |