Example sentences of "had [vb pp] into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | Western fears in general were receding that the USSR might be tempted to launch a pre-emptive attack before Nato had developed into an effective military force . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The mosquito bite on his leg had swollen into a scarlet hillock . |
| 14 | Traffic noise had swollen into the full cancer of morning rush-hour . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Then as dawn came up , he had fallen into a deep , dreamless sleep , waking suddenly to find his Aunt Bridget looking down at him . |
| 17 | Constance lay awake long after Ludovico had fallen into a heavy sleep . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Owen had fallen into the familiar rhetorical style of the Arab . |
| 20 | Their Parthenon-building ancestors began that culture , and their Byzantine ancestors kept it alive when the rest of Europe had fallen into the dark ages . |
| 21 | I found myself hurrying ton , until I realized that I had no destination : I wondered how many people around me had fallen into the same trap . |
| 22 | A man short , the Fourth Division side held their more illustrious opponents at bay with no great difficulty until midway through the first half , and the crowds had fallen into an apprehensive silence when Drinkell revived their spirits . |
| 23 | It was surprisingly warm and within seconds he had fallen into an exhausted sleep . |
| 24 | Somewhere between the time when they had fallen into an exhausted sleep and when she had woken to this grey dawn , all the joy and magic of what they had shared had faded , and she had been overcome by doubts . |
| 25 | The flock of sheep had panicked into a shambling run . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now he and Sambo were gone ; thee had vanished into the unknown , and soon everything else would be gone as well , and there would be nothing left . |
| 28 | Now that the rounded nose of the old malibu had been sharpened to a point in the thruster , the benign image of the dolphin had dissolved into the leering grin of a shark , inverted , its fin trailing in the water . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | He had looked into the other world , and he had been caught peering through . |