Example sentences of "had [vb pp] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Traffic noise had swollen into the full cancer of morning rush-hour . |
| 2 | Owen had fallen into the familiar rhetorical style of the Arab . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had looked into the other world , and he had been caught peering through . |
| 8 | She had looked into the midnight-dark eyes and it had n't seemed to matter at all that the plaza was a very busy place . |
| 9 | And the reason why the Greeks should have needed such consolation is that in their Dionysiac ecstasies they had looked into the painful essence of life . |
| 10 | He remembered every single one of the stolen meetings ; how he had gone to her bedchamber by night , how she had come into the warm drowsy afternoons to find him , when everyone was busy about something and no one knew where anyone was and she would not be missed . |
| 11 | By the time they had reached Martha 's house , most of the neighbours had come into the narrow street to watch . |
| 12 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 13 | The United States had the same sort of missiles in Italy and in Turkey and , before this crisis had developed , President Kennedy had in fact ordered them er to be er er returned to the United States , these missiles had no strategic purpose at all because a major change that had come into the strategic equation was the arrival of the intercontinental ballistic missile , and it was these missiles , really , which held the strategic balance er and were to change in fact radically both international politics and global strategy over the years to come , but I 'm going to talk about that later , the point I 'm making here is that er Khrushchev claimed that the missiles were there in the event of an American assault on Cuba , they were a deterrent weapon in exactly the same way as the defensive deterrent weapons er were d were defensive er for er the United States and for the Soviet Union . |
| 14 | So many other people , not just Harry , had come into the immediate picture . |
| 15 | Harry had come into the lower doorway at the right time , and was moving up between the tables to take his normal place among the young fellows of knightly family , his peers . |
| 16 | Formally , however , Sussex had come into the mainstream English religious experience . |
| 17 | The cult of the goddess Ishtar had come into the Black Land with settlers from the far north-east where the Twin Rivers flowed . |
| 18 | Diana felt a debt of gratitude to the woman who had been so kind to her during that first traumatic public engagement eighteen months before as well as an empathy with someone who , like her , had come into the royal world from the outside . |
| 19 | They had not looked to see whether the police had come into the main road in time to see . |
| 20 | She was not smiling now , but her look was full of a benevolent curiosity , and the soft island voice , with the lilt of the Gaelic moving through it like a gentle sea-swell , warmed me as palpably as if the sun had come into the dim and cluttered little shop . |
| 21 | Before they reached the great stone shaped like the skull of a horse which marked the path they were to take to the right , the fires were all out and the smoke from them had dispersed into the general heat-haze . |
| 22 | The Financial Services Act of 1986 aimed to fulfil this need , as well as to abolish some of the inconsistencies which had crept into the existing regulatory system for the financial services industry . |
| 23 | A new star had shot into the musical firmament . |
| 24 | ‘ Why ? ’ asked Antony , with a polite interest which ten minutes later had turned into the real thing . |
| 25 | Velleius Paterculus and the Latin source of the first books of Appian 's Civil War ( for which Emilio Gabba suggested the name of Asinius Pollio ) came nearer to an Italian version of Roman political history , but by the time they wrote the imperialism of the Republic had turned into the bureaucratic Empire of the Caesars : what these historians said could no longer bear fruit . |
| 26 | Another strand which had fed into the cultural policy making of the Newbolt Committee emerges in an altered form within the Review . |
| 27 | The staff listed consists only of the chancellor , one of the greatest of the royal officers , whose wages were five shillings a day , the master of the writing-office , who originally had tenpence a day , but Robert de Sigillo had made himself so indispensable that he had risen into the two shilling class , and the chaplain in charge of the chapel and relics . |
| 28 | Ward councillor Mrs Hannah Straiton said Clifton Leather Centre , already established in the street , had expanded into the empty building shortly after the church moved out . |
| 29 | Then , after they had moved into the small building , the door was closed . |
| 30 | And Goodwin was different too , with his emphasis on professionalism , and his links with those other people , older than her , who had moved into the mainstream media . |