Example sentences of "he had [vb pp] into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was less than a year since he had marched into this office , having forsaken the job of Director General of the Security Service for what he regarded as a promotion , while the men of Century recoiled at what they saw as a political insult . |
| 2 | He had emerged into another pool of dim light at the far end of the corridor . |
| 3 | He had floated into unknown , and as soon as he was well , unknowable , realms . |
| 4 | An Oxford graduate , he had moved into general management in manufacturing and then into international construction and consultancy from which he had been headhunted by Richard Addis , now one of his senior partners . |
| 5 | At Forest , in the nightmare season 81–82 , he had fallen into all the usual high earning traps , plus the unusual one of becoming one of the city 's leading gay scene makers . |
| 6 | The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle . |
| 7 | He had obviously showered , the almost-black hair falling in damp curls over his broad forehead , and he had changed into casual trousers and a shirt . |
| 8 | At a Burns Night party , some months earlier , he had bumped into Norman Stone , the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford . |
| 9 | Decision : the offender had a good record and a good job ; he had got into matrimonial and financial difficulties and was in debt . |
| 10 | My close friendship with Pearn had made me aware of the work that he had put into that assistance . |
| 11 | My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb . |