Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv] into [adj] " in BNC.

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1 But the army has fallen bitterly into rival factions and the army had replaced the Duvaliers ' secret police as the only coherent force in the country .
2 Instead , trade in other goods and trade in services has moved increasingly into surplus to offset the worsening balance on manufactured goods .
3 She did n't even know at what point friendship had turned into love , and if she had realised it when it happened the new bud of feeling might have blossomed crazily into hopeless longing and tongue-tied need … or perhaps it would have frosted away and died .
4 ‘ No , that 's one thing I 've always said , that with his vanity and with his looks , I do n't think he could have grown gracefully into old age .
5 Having researched extensively into critical writings on Thomas since the publication of the first edition , Anstey has retained seven of the original essays , adding a further seven to give a comprehensive collection reflecting some reappraisal of Thomas 's writings and also responses to new work over the past ten years .
6 By Sept. 7 an invading force from Sierra Leone was said to have pushed deep into Liberian territory held by the rebel National Patriotic Front of Liberia ( NPFL ) , amid reports of heavy fighting .
7 A Merlin III that Ted had preserved during 1985–1987 had penetrated deep into blue clay and had thus been cut-off from the damaging effects of oxygen .
8 The economic depression had bitten deeply into European morale , in practice governments were reluctant to extend the powers of Community institutions , and the Plan itself was both over ambitious in its general aims and too vague on specific actions .
9 Her mind had set irrevocably into middle age when she was about ten .
10 Notice this latter illustration concentrating on the externals of a still picture and then having selectively to use a ‘ public voice ’ , carried less risk of inadequate work than if the group had gone straight into dramatic playing , a mode which is often used indiscriminately and without any kind of rigour .
11 The grenier above them was so dark that , stumbling across the floor , she was always afraid that it had rotted away into gaping holes .
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