Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] into [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before .
2 It was reported on Oct. 29 that Ariane 44-L had successfully launched into orbit the Intelsat VI communications satellite for the 110-member International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( INTELSAT ) .
3 The people in the Tate house were victims of themselves because they had all fallen into sadism and masochism and recorded it on video-tape .
4 Maggie knew that many of her school-friends admired Phoebe ; they thought she was rather splendid , especially since they had all got into ecology , but this did not help Maggie .
5 As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods .
6 In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms .
7 The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song .
8 The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop .
9 Though he had few intellectual interests , he was fascinated by the lineage of ancient families , such as his own , even of those that had long lapsed into obscurity .
10 When she opened them again , Fincara was there , as silently as if the blackness had merely thickened into shape .
11 One of the girls had apparently rushed into class to inform her teacher , Mrs Whitehouse , that she now knew what was ‘ right ’ .
12 By the time the news came through , the preliminary advertising had already gone into production , but before long , it had become Carry On — Follow That Camel .
13 She had already fallen into sin by meeting Andrew in remote places whenever she could .
14 That 's put you in your place , my girl ; Roman had n't even enquired how she was — their lovemaking had already vanished into limbo as far as he was concerned .
15 But the receiver had already clicked into place and she knew he had n't even heard .
16 In many places , such conferences had already come into existence , but their authority has been greatly enhanced by the Council .
17 I had already come into conflict over race and patriotism .
18 Thus Mary had already passed into legend .
19 On the other hand , she had not taken into account the effect her presence had on him .
20 The second stage of the field work involved contacting ‘ hidden ’ heroin users , that is , those who had not come into contact with Wirral agencies .
21 Following on from the analysis of known heroin use , the second stage of the ethnographic work involved contacting the ‘ hidden ’ sector , those who had used heroin during the course of the prevalence study period , but who had not come into contact with any of the ten statutory or voluntary agencies surveyed .
22 Having mapped out the general social and drug career characteristics of users interviewed in the four snowball samples , the following section will discuss why these users had not come into contact with the various voluntary and statutory bodies expected to deal with the ‘ heroin problem ’ .
23 I told the conference that I had not come into politics to preside over the destruction of the National Health Service and repeated the Government 's commitment to it .
24 ( Private radio had been introduced by a law passed in August 1987 but which had not come into effect until Oct. 6 , 1989 . )
25 Then , when she had finally gone into labour , Edith had been left to birth alone in her bedroom with only their mother 's reprimanding voice to help her along .
26 She had gone to give pregnant niece Dawn Morgan a lift to hospital — and Dawn had just gone into labour .
27 Conversely , if the egg had just popped into existence and then exploded , what could explain this bizarre event ?
28 The argument is that it was easier for them to maintain the part of their image of statelessness which consisted of ‘ how we have always done things ’ , than it would have been if they had individually moved into town and settled into a bidonville .
29 Lou smoked three cigarettes a day : it was his one bad habit — and on one occasion Sophie 's skirt and a stub had somehow come into contact .
30 She had unconsciously put into practice the Winnie the Pooh principle , which rules that the most effective method of searching for a lost person or object is to get lost oneself on the assumption that some force of nature brings all forgotten things together in ignored niches and unfrequented locales .
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