Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [vb pp] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two months later spring had opened into full-blown summer . |
| 2 | In fact , by 1988 General Electric had reorganized into fewer key businesses in order to overcome this problem , and in so doing had become more like a conglomerate . |
| 3 | The nationalist opposition had split into competing factions in the years before the election , and it never effectively challenged Sobhuza 's rule thereafter . |
| 4 | It was as if her mind had split into two separate portions , Gina thought as with one part of it she listened attentively to the technical explanations and absorbed the aesthetic appearance of the system with approving eyes , her creative instincts stimulated with the challenge with which she 'd been bestowed . |
| 5 | What he did not know was that Chemical had run into massive internal problems . |
| 6 | Moreover the effect of the statute , in preventing the separation between legal and equitable estates in the cases to which it applied , was nullified in the latter half of the seventeenth century by the decision of the Chancery to protect trusts declared upon the uses which the statute had turned into legal estates . |
| 7 | By the mid-1930s the Soviet menace had slipped into fourth place in the SIS ‘ order of priorities ’ behind Germany , Italy , and Japan . |
| 8 | It is first heard of at the coronation of Pope Nicholas II in 1059 , when it appears that because the mitre had passed into general use by bishops ( and even by princes ) the pope 's own headgear had to undergo change to become distinctive and exclusive to the pope . |
| 9 | The Liverpool Stipendiary Magistrate dismissed summonses brought against a Liverpool Constable for selling tickets in an unauthorised lottery … the Constable had got into financial difficulties owing to a serious illness of his wife and the ill-health of his two children . |
| 10 | On Oct. 14 it was reported that a UN investigating team had flown into southern Sudan from Nairobi following the murder of a UN official and a Norwegian journalist ; two other UN staff members were missing . |
| 11 | His job had turned into such a jest over the last few weeks that the thought of putting on his uniform , that humiliatingly naval-looking , obviously non-sea-going uniform , made him stiff with bashfulness . |
| 12 | Their Rolls Royce image was dented for a while by accusations of unethical behaviour in raiding from clients , but was restored once the business had expanded into other sectors and gained a name as a generalist . |
| 13 | The plaintiff had got into financial difficulties . |
| 14 | According to an Army communiqué Salvadorean " subversives " ( i.e. guerrillas of the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front — Frente Farabundo Martí para la Liberación Nacional — FMLN ) had on May 27 , 1989 , entered a small Honduran town in the border area but had been forced back to El Salvador by a patrol ; Salvadorean aircraft and a helicopter gunship had fired into Honduran territory in pursuit of the rebels ; and a Salvadorean aircraft had flown over Honduran territory on May 29 . |
| 15 | A first-night mishap had turned into one of the funniest sketches in the whole show . |
| 16 | Suddenly the 180 million people loyal to Communism at the end of the war had turned into 800 million . |
| 17 | At this , the sorely-tried husband had broken into such cries of frustration and wrath that the good doctor had thrust aside his plate and gone out into the hall to discover what all the hullabaloo was about . |
| 18 | His ball had gone into deep rough and I noticed he was walking toward it much faster than usual and he was talking to me faster . |
| 19 | At that point Posi chimed in to say that another vessel had come into visual range just beyond the Valve . |
| 20 | By 1910 , therefore , expansionism had turned into overt and formal colonialism . |
| 21 | The cordoned area was much bigger than they had realised , for several square yards of the level ground on top had subsided into ominous , shallow holes , here and there breaking the turf , and the slope down to the river path , once dropping gradually a matter of fifteen feet or so , now sagged in red rolls of soil and grass . |
| 22 | A stable and balanced agrarian economy had degenerated into precarious monocultures and backwater towns . |
| 23 | One member asked for details of how my father had gone into voluntary liquidation . |
| 24 | The dark fears of the morning had subsided into childish fantasies . |
| 25 | Looking back at regular intervals to see if the stranger was following , eventually they reached the access to the street but the guide was astonished to find the man had vanished into thin air . |
| 26 | They were all watching in fascination , hardly noticing , hardly understanding , that the abrupt wind from the south door had fallen into total stillness , and still , leaf by leaf now and slowly and deliberately , the leaves kept turning . |
| 27 | ‘ Even at the age of eight years old , I knew how much love had gone into that case … ’ |
| 28 | Maggie could tell from the expression on Mr Sanderson 's face that much thought had gone into this . |
| 29 | His deep , warm western voice had risen into plangent eloquence , indignant and rapt . |
| 30 | Millions in British capital had gone into overseas lines , and Chambers had managed a greatly disproportionate share of it . |