Example sentences of "have [verb] into a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 2 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 3 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 4 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 5 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 6 | Er , the honourable gentleman wondered whether we would ever have a truncated view again , certainly not under the ninety three legislation because that was a once off as a careful reading of the act will show , er but er we will erm and his honourable friend , the member for Perry Barns hoped er that er we would have no more reviews of European boundaries , I know because he was talking at P R but we will certainly have one new review of er er Euro constituency boundaries because as soon as the parliamentary boundaries are completed er we will have to go into a new review on that basis of all the European seats and of course the full enquiries will be held in the normal way for them . |
| 7 | You 'll have to go into a local hostel temporarily — but that 's only so they can check on a few things . |
| 8 | You could have vanished into a Scotch mist and taken a boat to one of the Western Isles — with all the plate and linen , etc. , etc. — for all I am aware . |
| 9 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 10 | Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals . |
| 11 | He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy . |
| 12 | It was unfortunate for Virgin that in applying for ‘ exemption ’ to fly into America they should have walked into a simmering row between the American and British governments over the British refusal to allow PanAm to operate a third frequency across the Atlantic . |
| 13 | He accepted Christianity when the missionary Poppo proved the efficacy of the Christian god by undergoing the ordeal of carrying hot iron , and may have entered into a subordinate relationship with the German emperor Otto I. However , he rebelled after Otto 's death in 973 , and the following year was defeated at the Danevirke , a Danish defensive rampart in southern Jutland connected to the east with the important town of Hedeby . |
| 14 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 15 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 16 | ‘ Then he must have gone into a steep dive . |
| 17 | In our view , routine casework unsupported by an active programme of service development would have been of little value and would probably have degenerated into a frustrating cycle of ‘ patch and mend ’ crisis management . |
| 18 | In six months her winnings , which had saved the firm , would have degenerated into a mere loan . |
| 19 | These different possible early states would have evolved into a whole family of different histories for the universe . |
| 20 | Bazille was killed a few months before his twenty-ninth birthday in the Franco-Prussian war , and since then scholars have been wringing their hands at the loss of a potential ‘ great Impressionist ’ , discounting the possibility that he could equally have evolved into a third-rate artist like Sisley or Morisot . |