Example sentences of "had [verb] into [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With a twitch of its jaws it had ripped into his hide leggings . |
| 2 | and the kid had withdrawn into his yellow gaze |
| 3 | An integral part of deterrent operations , the parade and display were part of an open day for the public , designed to show the Danes who and what had flown into their country to exercise for two weeks . |
| 4 | Someone had broken into her house , apparently searching for something . |
| 5 | A contrasting case is Watson [ 1989 ] 2 All ER 865 ( CA ) : the jury were to take into account the knowledge of the victim 's age and ( frail ) condition which he had acquired after he had broken into her house . |
| 6 | Also Branson was unable to identify the Clarkes and Bartholomew as the men who had broken into his home . |
| 7 | A handful of Muslim Generals had been assassinated by the radicals — he himself , a captain then , had narrowly escaped such a fate when a gang with knives and spears had broken into his home . |
| 8 | A GLASGOW bus driver said yesterday that he might have been blinded during an attack by a drunken passenger who had broken into his cabin and assaulted him as he drove through the city centre one Saturday evening . |
| 9 | After that she took out the contents of the red velvet box Marc had pressed into her hand that morning and put on the pearl earrings that had once belonged to her beloved 's grandmother , knowing that now she had a right to them . |
| 10 | She had planned now to tell him that he was the one who was thick ; that he had fallen into her trap ; that she , Gazzer , and Bella knew all about him and what he had done . |
| 11 | It was not fairy gold that had fallen into their open laps : the first Mrs Headleand , it was true , had conveniently died , but Charles and Liz thereafter had worked for their position . |
| 12 | ‘ I had fallen into my old bad habit of asking Skipper if he 'd like to do something rather than telling him . ’ |
| 13 | He says a mutual friend phoned to say he 'd met Mr. Cratchley in the car park that morning and he realised that Mr. Cratchley had booked into our property in France . |
| 14 | Then , he felt the world shift on its axis , and knew that a new reality had slotted into its place . |
| 15 | The waiters were dressed in velvet knee breeches , silk stockings and tail coats , their heads topped with powdered wigs ( although these were later discarded because , it is said , a passenger complained that powder had dropped into his soup ) . |
| 16 | A DRINKER died 15 minutes after he was stung on the lip by a wasp that had dropped into his glass of port . |
| 17 | Without meaning to , she had let into his mind , like a pack of wolves , hard and surprising thoughts about the death of the Pitts . |
| 18 | He bent and scooped up the bike , wheeling it along with them , and Jenna became aware of other eyes besides the dark ones that had looked into her own . |
| 19 | He had looked into her eyes too often , told her that he loved her too many times for her ever to believe him again . |
| 20 | His voice was calm and friendly , and Shelley was feeling happy because she had seen Miguelito again , and he had looked into her eyes when he asked ‘ Me quieres ? ’ |
| 21 | She was n't hungry — her appetite had disappeared during the long moments she had looked into his amber eyes . |
| 22 | During the 1970s Lima had at least four times been the object of investigations by parliamentary commissions which had looked into his connections , as a member of local government , with the local construction sector in the 1960s . |
| 23 | Shiona had looked into his face with a stab of emotion , and just for a moment had been unable to speak . |
| 24 | The desire for his total understanding was the bright song of a chanticleer to greet the longed-for dawn ; she had no idea that the longing had been seeded amongst the far-flung auroras of the meanings he had programmed into her magic box . |
| 25 | Paradoxically , it was in this administrative vacuum that many members of the Colonial Service felt they had come into their own . |
| 26 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 27 | The ban against marriage to a deceased wife 's sister was rescinded in 1907 , another sign that the middle classes had come into their own . |
| 28 | She kept wanting to cry , as she had with Stephen , as she had for so much of the time since Timothy Gedge had come into their lives . |
| 29 | At least some of the ‘ fossils ’ , or outdated ‘ introns ’ , had come into their own again . |
| 30 | This generous man with guinea-gold hair had come into her life so unexpectedly , but she just knew that like a guinea he would slip through her fingers before she had a chance to know him better . |