Example sentences of "had walk into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even Stella , McIllvanney 's long-suffering secretary , had taken the day off , leaving the office locked , which meant I had to walk into town to find a public telephone from which I called the Bahamian Police and told them about Hirondelle , and added that I had rescued a chart and a handful of cartridges from the stricken boat . |
| 2 | OF all the stars in all the world , Jason Donovan had to walk into Humphrey Bogart 's shrine — and the comparison did n't bear thinking about . |
| 3 | YOU only had to walk into the members ' lobby of the Commons yesterday to know what you 'd suspected for days . |
| 4 | She had to walk into work tomorrow and face her colleagues . |
| 5 | If you had to walk into the lion 's den , better have someone on your side . |
| 6 | They blocked the pavement and there was this bloody great lorry up against the path so anybody coming down or up the road had to walk into the road or co , cross the road to the other side ! |
| 7 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 8 | Police Sergeant Herbert Thorpe said that Drew had walked into the station and reported that trousers he had lost earlier had shown up and that he wanted the sergeant to inspect them . |
| 9 | The woman was in black stilettoes , walking slowly and evidently in pain — as if she had walked into the country in inappropriate shoes and was blistered and had a long way to go , as if this hot summer wind from the chalk hills was almost too much for her . |
| 10 | I knew then that I had walked into a situation from which there would be no escape . |
| 11 | Next minute Ricky had walked into the room and slapped her across the face . |
| 12 | After stopping in Kinshasa , the flight had landed in France and Mike had walked into the recruiting post at Fort St Nicholas and joined up . |
| 13 | He noted that the son of a senior Conservative aristocrat had walked into a directorship without previous training or experience . |
| 14 | He had been carried along by his wife 's extraordinary power of making decisions , from the time when she had walked into the offices of Glebe and Pargeter , when his old father was alive , and told him that her great-aunt had left her some money and she had decided to invest it in a London house . |
| 15 | She had walked into the house and shouted her usual , I 'm back . ’ |
| 16 | Instantly , fear welled up in him again , and he realised that he had walked into a trap . |
| 17 | It was so weird it made my hair stand on end ; it was almost as if a ghost had walked into the room . |
| 18 | Or they might hear she had walked into a police station somewhere later in the day . |
| 19 | They joined Mercy Chant as she came out of church , and walked together along the road Tess had walked into Emminster . |
| 20 | If she had walked into a room and found him with her bag in his hands , the decision would have been made for her . |
| 21 | She had walked into that café like someone landing on the moon , her eyes wide with wonder and alarm . |
| 22 | Once had been at the theatre , when she had walked into the foyer and received a thoroughly unpleasant jolt when she had seen him standing only yards away , and the second time had been at a party . |
| 23 | After shooting the woman from the council house and her baby , and his mother , Larry had walked into Bishops Linctus and shot dead the first three people he met , wounding several others . |
| 24 | Obviously she had walked into some sort of a secret and Felipe was not at all amused by the fact . |
| 25 | A mild uproar at the other end of the bar told me without looking that Bunny , the Mother Christmasses and the rest of the band had arrived and had walked into the middle of the darts match . |
| 26 | The Doctor had walked into the fog . |
| 27 | All those letters from her uncle , ranting incessantly on the subject of Damian Flint , how he had walked into a senior position in Swift and was poised to take the whole company from under Jamie 's nose . |
| 28 | Robert Floyd had walked into Binns in Darlington and handed a note to the 24-year-old assistant on the perfume counter . |
| 29 | It had been alleged that Mr Boyle , of Edge Moor Road , and Mr Mills , of Emley Moor Road , had walked into Mr Hawthorne 's home with a crowbar and a handgun . |
| 30 | Mr Perkins said they had walked into the surgery and poured bleach into the tank . |