Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon she had formed them into a big circle , like this : — |
| 2 | What had apparently happened was that , faced with persecution , the committed witches had formed themselves into small clandestine groups and became separated from each other . |
| 3 | His hair had formed itself into an interesting anthill kind of a shape though . |
| 4 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 5 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 6 | The warmth that had come with his laughter faded , and she felt he had tricked her into saying more than she intended . |
| 7 | Miss Vine 's budgerigar Beano died that night , and so did old Miss Trimm , a favourite teacher once in Dynmouth Primary , whose declining years had tricked her into believing she 'd mothered another son of God . |
| 8 | The moans and songs lie low and gentle , then rise to a wild screaming force of sound as though all the ghosts of time had gathered themselves into one great , explosive cry . |
| 9 | Russia destroyed the Turkish fleet in the southern Black Sea port of Sinope on 18/30 November 1853 , but only after Turkish ships had provoked her into doing so by making sorties in the direction of the Crimea . |
| 10 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 11 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 12 | Next second she had plunged it into them . |
| 13 | Those were the words she would choose , she decided vengefully , after Dame Sybil had tucked her into bed and returned to the hall . |
| 14 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 15 | It had been a glimpse of Gentle , not so unlike the one she 'd just had , that had propelled her into her near-suicidal affair with him . |
| 16 | Dreams and reality had collided in her shocked mind with stunning force , sending her hurtling over the edge of that invisible precipice , and the fall had broken her into a thousand agonising pieces , like brittle shards of glass that could never be whole again . |
| 17 | Logic suggested that the Chelonians had marched themselves into battle with their customary lack of subtlety , only to find that their enemy was of a higher calibre than anticipated . |
| 18 | By the time he had pressed her into a seat she had herself under more control , and was suffering acute embarrassment at her outburst . |
| 19 | I had heard the bell toll … the wave of ecstasy which drove me on to this shore had pressed me into a dark , dull interior . |
| 20 | I suspected that Fenella had bullied him into it . |
| 21 | The unexpected break , hard on the heels of her disaster with Giles , had nudged her into accepting Clive 's invitation . |
| 22 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 23 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 24 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 25 | He had lifted her into his arms before she could protest , although in truth she hardly felt in any condition to trek back up the incline towards the barn . |
| 26 | Yevdoxia had rolled him into bed then , kissing him , whispered not ‘ Goodnight ’ but ‘ Goodbye ’ . |
| 27 | The families along the river were closely related and inter-marriage had fused them into a larger unit . |
| 28 | The slender loins and wide shoulders kept their elegance of shape and movement , the skin was clear of wrinkles except for the lines of experience that had graved themselves into his face ; but the flesh was drying and withering now , hardening between weathered skin and shapely bone . |
| 29 | Between them , Candy and Adam had hounded her into a corner ; she felt beleaguered , under attack from all sides . |
| 30 | The yarn I was using was cotton , a double knitting weight and not the best for cabling at any time and I did need to have cables , since I had sketched them into my design . |