Example sentences of "had [vb pp] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here it was , I believe , that my hero Frank Buckland , the writer , naturalist and Mayhew-like chronicler of London life , had jumped into the water in order to imagine himself a salmon . |
| 2 | Sonny , alarmed at the deathly pallor of his half-sister 's face , had jumped into the trap and had driven furiously to the village for the doctor . |
| 3 | Next minute , Kevin , Drew and Randy Sherwood , who was laughing his handsome head off , had jumped into the pool and were trying to prise Perdita away . |
| 4 | I showed them the place where the monster had jumped into the lake . |
| 5 | He had plunged into the den of architects once more , and been suitably bloodied . |
| 6 | The Americans ( and North in particular , who had been pitched by McFarlane into handling the Washington end ) had stumbled into the operation before they were ready , either practically or legally , to handle it . |
| 7 | I had stumbled into the fringes of a world where cynical and ruthless manipulation of other people was the norm , and where even violence and perhaps murder was used to achieve one 's ends . |
| 8 | Cornelius wondered whether he had stumbled into the rehearsal for some fringe event of the now legendary Edinburgh Festival . |
| 9 | By 1935 , the Bedfordshire Federation had developed into the most effective student organisation in the District attracting much attention from other areas within and beyond the District . |
| 10 | Under the more favourable conditions of their past , they had developed into the remarkably beautiful and striking breeds that made such an impact on the visitors to the early cat shows . |
| 11 | They had flown into the atmosphere and had carried his broken body to the other side of the castle . |
| 12 | About an hour before these last events were taking place , the American tourists had registered into the two-star Swan Hotel in Stratford- Stratford-upon-(definitelydefinitely ‘ upon ’ ) Avon . |
| 13 | The fatal blasts , Morales said , had been caused by large amounts of petrol from a ruptured PEMEX pipeline and lesser amounts of gas , including the volatile solvent hexane , which had leaked into the sewers . |
| 14 | An electrical engineer told the court water had leaked into the washing machine 's motor , short-circuiting it , and the earthwire in the plug had come away , like this one . |
| 15 | Some were eating , and Ruth guessed that they had broken into the food supplies they had brought for the voyage . |
| 16 | On July 13 another five Cubans were turned away after they had broken into the residence of the Czechoslovak chargé d'affaires and temporarily taken him hostage . |
| 17 | The warning alert must have been sounding since he had broken into the room . |
| 18 | A Darlington police spokesman said the gang had broken into the offices , just off Hollyhurst Road , after 10.30pm on Friday night and the size of the safe indicated there must have been at least three people involved . |
| 19 | The last occasion he had parachuted into the sea , at night , operationally , had been off South Georgia . |
| 20 | No one who had stared into the chaos of the warp , no one whose living was to do so , could be unsophisticated and survive . |
| 21 | The gas had percolated into the hotel basement from a fractured welded joint in an intermediate pressure main situated below street level and belonging to the defendants , a public utility company . |
| 22 | Traffic noise had swollen into the full cancer of morning rush-hour . |
| 23 | Any boy who dared to venture down the Mucky Beck alone was deserving of great respect , even if he had fallen into the water and almost drowned . |
| 24 | Here the buildings were disfigured almost beyond recognition ; some had fallen into the street while others leaned outwards , a hopeless thoroughfare of broken concrete , stones , weeds and pillaged furniture across which had been built a low barricade made of chairs , doors and broken tables . |
| 25 | A man named Charles Lloyd had fallen into the river , and was in severe difficulties . |
| 26 | And because I 'd let her fall off , she would n't be allowed to be a nun any more , because she had fallen into the lake of mud and I knew you could n't be a nun unless your clothes were clean . |
| 27 | The tree was so big that , if it had fallen into the clearing , it would have flattened most of the gathering , but luckily it went in the other direction , toppling over the cliffside . |
| 28 | He then remembered that seven years previously an instant coffee machine had been installed in the building where he worked and he had fallen into the habit of having a cup every time he passed it . |
| 29 | Investigators could not check the bolts because they had fallen into the sea . |
| 30 | Unknown aliens had crafted all such force rods which had fallen into the hands of the Imperium , most notably the cache found in the ice-caverns of Karsh XIII . |