Example sentences of "had [vb pp] into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a moment she had jumped into bed , dragging the thin covers up . |
| 2 | Elaine , still holding Bernice 's hand , had jumped into Francis 's arms . |
| 3 | They had tried a few in the Fahan Lodge Hotel after sailing back the night before , been seen off by two ugly English girls ( Morally ugly , said Rory — they would n't screw ) and had roared into Buncrana in the BMW and done the High Street bars . |
| 4 | I heard a voice say , I then realised that the voice was mine , but before I had chance to retract the offer the JM publicity machine had roared into action and there were posters advertising the ride in every office . |
| 5 | Having located the house , he had roared into Belfast and met Mallachy at the Wellington Park , where they 'd had a pint of Guinness beneath the photos of the famous actors . |
| 6 | My daughter had stumbled into Pitfall Number One for the unwary green consumer — the ‘ Bit-Less-Bad ’ trap . |
| 7 | Nate Cocello , President of United Motors , had flown into London from Detroit with a posse of Vice Presidents to attend the bi-monthly meeting of the European Planning committee . |
| 8 | These Norseman had flown into Red Lake from all over northern Canada , one ( N45TG ) even making the trek up from Minnesota in the USA . |
| 9 | The bird was found in a field after it had flown into power cables . |
| 10 | A squad of armed and masked men had broken into MacCurtain 's home one night in March and shot him dead in front of his wife and children . |
| 11 | In the middle , she went away to make tea , and brought it back with digestive biscuits she had broken into quarters . |
| 12 | Over and over again initiatives towards ‘ Imperial union ’ had broken into spray against the rock . |
| 13 | The court heard that Oddy had broken into P W Archer and Son , a removal depot at Springwell Lane , Northallerton , making off with biscuits , sherry , wine and perfume worth about £300 . |
| 14 | Katya went crazy over it before it had broken into leaf , just as she did with catmint . |
| 15 | Only then had the BBC followed up the statement , saying baldly that the Deputy Fuhrer had parachuted into Scotland . |
| 16 | Others may be in positions of trust not directly derived from full-time occupation , such as scout masters — SCOUT LEADER 'S CAMPING SHAME ( Star ) — as well as those in less formal and less-easily recognisable roles ; the headline Sex shame of ‘ uncle' ( Daily Mirror ) and text ( ‘ a mild-mannered clerk known by schoolboy train fans as Uncle Roland … took boys in the Rail Riders ’ Club on trips in Britain and Europe ’ ) shows how some offenders had eased into positions of trust with youngsters . |
| 17 | The officials had travelled into Myanma to secure the release of a number of Thai villagers detained since August . |
| 18 | If the Young Pretender had marched into England directly after Prestonpans , which had been fought on 21 September , he would have found a country ill-prepared to resist him , but many of his followers were reluctant to cross the Border . |
| 19 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |
| 20 | Ma had held her so tight the buttons of her dress had pressed into Anna 's chest until they hurt . |
| 21 | By the middle of the nineteenth century , the offence had fallen into desuetude , but it was resurrected and found to be a handy prosecutorial weapon against gang fights , because it enabled the prosecutor to circumvent the limitations imposed by the laws of complicity . |
| 22 | Fowler , who had fallen into bed at four in the morning , agreed ; if this morning 's papers were any guide , the Party conference had given the appearance of a nightclub crossed with a football riot . |
| 23 | In the grounds of the Elgin Cathedral , I mentioned to a passing man , a local , with whom I had fallen into conversation , ‘ Dr Johnson had a meal here , that was so bad he could n't eat it . ’ |
| 24 | And by the end of the war , the issue had fallen into oblivion . |
| 25 | Having reached the conclusion that it was not clear whether the committee had fallen into error , they admitted the affidavit evidence which showed that the appeal committee had approached the matter correctly . |
| 26 | The Guérignys ’ smallholding on the edge of the village of Préfleur had fallen into dilapidation ; the roof of the red , herring-bone-brick house and stabling had caved in , leaving the ribs exposed and the heart shattered . |
| 27 | Land stewards had become autonomous , farm buildings had fallen into disuse , land had been poorly managed , properties had been allowed to run down and rents had gone unreviewed . |
| 28 | The channel was now only ten , perhaps twelve feet deep and fifteen feet wide : since it had fallen into disuse as a waterway it had , over the years , become silted up with layer upon layer of sludge . |
| 29 | The local Forest courts had fallen into disuse ; in 1601 the regarders of Chippenham Forest had complained that there was great disorder ‘ for want of a swanmote court ’ . |
| 30 | The common law offence of sedition , which consists of stirring hatred amongst different classes of Her Majesty 's subjects had fallen into disuse , and an unsuccessful attempt to use it to prosecute for the making of anti-semitic remarks appears to have discouraged prosecuting authorities from seeking to persuade the courts to mould the common law to deal with new problems posed by those who promote ill-will in an increasingly multi-racial society . |