Example sentences of "had [verb] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The builders , overcome by the tragic outcome of their vast conception , had devolved into a shelled race who spent their nomadic existence migrating from one fragment of the sphere to another , living in the ruins of their once great cities and seeing the cosmos as a gigantic jigsaw puzzle being slowly assembled by God . |
| 2 | He had stumbled into a deep peat hole , hidden by heather , and worse , the heather had closed above his head , hiding where he had fallen . |
| 3 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 4 | By 1684 it had developed into a key centre with its own voevoda , a full range of administrative buildings , warehouses , baths , a merchants ' hall , cottages for the garrison and civilian inhabitants , a guard house and a church in the centre . |
| 5 | By late 1989 the Bofors affair had developed into a major electoral issue [ see p. 36976 ] and in late December , some three weeks after being elected , the new National Front government issued a notification excluding Bofors from entering into future weapons contracts with the Indian government [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 6 | Since its inception , however , it had developed into a complex web of regulations which prevented civil servants from participating in most political activities . |
| 7 | This meant that , by 1980 , the country had developed into a modern territorial state under strong central control . |
| 8 | His quest for a wife had developed into a national pastime . |
| 9 | Thirty minutes earlier the radio had crackled with news of a definite sighting of the escapee Burrows , who had broken into a deserted farmhouse between Retford and Gainsborough . |
| 10 | He did not resume his role as a major lender until after 1689 but meanwhile he had blossomed into a Kentish landowner and re-entered Parliament . |
| 11 | The mosquito bite on his leg had swollen into a scarlet hillock . |
| 12 | She had fallen into a deep and dreamless sleep , the first time in a fortnight she had slept so well , when Quinn nudged her awake . |
| 13 | Then as dawn came up , he had fallen into a deep , dreamless sleep , waking suddenly to find his Aunt Bridget looking down at him . |
| 14 | Constance lay awake long after Ludovico had fallen into a heavy sleep . |
| 15 | For the benefit of those who were not part of this scene , there was enormous and very real concern among the ruling classes that the whole of the young generation had fallen into a degenerative backslide which , of course , it had not . |
| 16 | The flock of sheep had panicked into a shambling run . |
| 17 | But by the end of the year the ‘ green bill ’ had been quietly dropped and the environmental ‘ network ’ had vanished into a general belief in the need for good , informal relations with Friends of the Earth and other environmental organizations . |
| 18 | He had dropped into a thick Geordie twang and , after laughing , he looked up and down the platform now , saying , ‘ We must be the only ones expecting a passenger . ’ |
| 19 | A new cross-cut had been started at Paddy End ( probably Courteney 's Cross-Cut ) , and this had come into a 6 inch vein carrying chalcopyrite . |
| 20 | In Britain , from around 1800 , traders in towns had done no more than seek to control the sale of goods and services on promises to pay later by combining into Trade Protection Societies , which had grouped into a National Association of Trade Protection Societies ( NATPS ) . |
| 21 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 22 | As was often common after breech births , the afterbirth had not come away as it should have done , and Effie had been so torn during the birth , Dr Neil told her later , that she had started to bleed , and then the bleeding had turned into a violent haemorrhaging , the passage of the afterbirth completing the damage already done to Effie 's poor little body . |
| 23 | It had been a pretty little creature , it had looked quiet and gentle and good like Oliver , but as soon as you went near it , it had turned into a clawing , spitting bundle of hate . |
| 24 | But within a few days , all her mother 's youth and vigour were gone and the energetic , independent woman whose health and dependability she had taken for granted for so long had turned into a helpless invalid , unable to hold down the thinnest gruel , unable to sleep more than a few minutes at a time , unable even to answer the calls of nature on her own , so that she had to be lifted like a child onto the pot and lifted back into the jumble of stinking bedclothes . |
| 25 | On December 5th American Telephone & Telegraph ( AT&T ) bid $6.1 billion for NCR , America 's sixth-largest computer maker , after merger talks had turned into a shouting match . |
| 26 | Forster was laying where they had left him , except the raw area of his face had turned into a slimy mess . |
| 27 | The hand was decomposing , the bloody stump of its wrist had turned into a black , congealed mess . |
| 28 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 29 | As had happened so many times lately , what looked like a flash of illumination had turned into a damp squib . |
| 30 | She felt lost , that her youth had gone , been sucked away by that vain and stupid old woman who had become enamoured of the young boy who had turned into a smooth-talking man . |