Example sentences of "had [adv] [verb] [adv prt] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two of the three men who had drunk and joked together that evening at Amstetten had since wandered out into the dark . |
| 2 | But she still did n't have any idea why he had suddenly barged back into her life like this . |
| 3 | She was delighted at having the chance to work with one of the rock world 's most distinguished performers who had already branched out into the movie business . |
| 4 | Daniel had explained to her that he liked very simple food that he could eat with one hand , because of his inability to eat without reading , and so , for supper his first night , she had brought him scrambled egg on a piece of toast that she had already cut up into precise and helpful squares . |
| 5 | I pondered on the Italian touch Id experienced early that Sunday afternoon , and reflected on why the rest of the weekend had just fizzled out into one empty blank . |
| 6 | Those boys ( they were few , for academic impulses withered and died in the Burleigh air ) who aimed at Advanced Level , or even university , had always trickled off into the state system as soon as they had taken their Ordinary Levels , if not before . |
| 7 | But , with the gleam from beneath her husband 's heavy , sleepy eyelids practically scorching her flesh , Laura had quickly struggled back into her T-shirt . |
| 8 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 9 | He had inherited an oil company in port of Spain from his father , and had also branched out into the airline business , owning and operating several profitable inter-island routes . |
| 10 | The tape measure had now to go down into the hollow as well as across the circle , and it was not long enough to do this . |
| 11 | If only the clothes had been plainer and more suitable for the vicar 's wife of such a poor parish , ’ Sophia lamented , holding up the lame cocktail dress whose belt Faustina had now taken out into the hall . |
| 12 | The initial alarm that had swept over her in the apartment had now settled down into a tight knot of almost sick apprehension , which lay like heavy lead deep in her stomach . |