Example sentences of "had [vb pp] into [art] " 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 | When he left , after numerous rows with American socialists , though the class struggle was still his main concern , he had developed a new sympathy with cultural and political nationalism , his character had mellowed , and he had matured into a thinker of depth , breadth , and originality , and an orator of force and passion . |
| 6 | He had plunged into the den of architects once more , and been suitably bloodied . |
| 7 | The builders , overcome by the tragic outcome of their vast conception , had devolved into a shelled race who spent their nomadic existence migrating from one fragment of the sphere to another , living in the ruins of their once great cities and seeing the cosmos as a gigantic jigsaw puzzle being slowly assembled by God . |
| 8 | It was as though Biff had devolved into an animal , even a reptile , temporarily torpid since there was no spur to action , yet springloaded to respond … |
| 9 | He had stumbled into a deep peat hole , hidden by heather , and worse , the heather had closed above his head , hiding where he had fallen . |
| 10 | Blanche shivered with unease , as though she had stumbled into a crypt . |
| 11 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Cornelius wondered whether he had stumbled into the rehearsal for some fringe event of the now legendary Edinburgh Festival . |
| 15 | His quest for a wife had developed into a national pastime . |
| 16 | By 1684 it had developed into a key centre with its own voevoda , a full range of administrative buildings , warehouses , baths , a merchants ' hall , cottages for the garrison and civilian inhabitants , a guard house and a church in the centre . |
| 17 | Thus in a few years a mere convenience for keyboard players had developed into a widely adopted performing practice which revolutionized musical textures and was to remain in use for two centuries . |
| 18 | By late 1989 the Bofors affair had developed into a major electoral issue [ see p. 36976 ] and in late December , some three weeks after being elected , the new National Front government issued a notification excluding Bofors from entering into future weapons contracts with the Indian government [ see p. 37126 ] . |
| 19 | Since its inception , however , it had developed into a complex web of regulations which prevented civil servants from participating in most political activities . |
| 20 | The new government was formed after consultations with seven parliamentary parties , but not with the Serbian Democratic Party ( SDS ) , which was banned on June 24 after a Sarajevo court found that it had developed into a " classic terrorist organization " , nor with the Serbian Renaissance Movement ( SPO ) . |
| 21 | This meant that , by 1980 , the country had developed into a modern territorial state under strong central control . |
| 22 | Hugo had been perfectly happy to talk at length on the Margie Llewellyn Show about the days when he had played on the streets of the Bronx , and how in this unlikely setting a talent for sketching had developed into an interest in designing clothes . |
| 23 | Western fears in general were receding that the USSR might be tempted to launch a pre-emptive attack before Nato had developed into an effective military force . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | N.G. Attenborough and his crew were killed , although it was believed that they had flown into a balloon barrage . |
| 27 | He had flown into a rage when he found his car , left in a private car park in Hounslow , west London , was clamped , the Old Bailey heard yesterday . |
| 28 | The Collector had flown into a rage . |
| 29 | Uncle Vernon had flown into a paddy on account of the seven lessons left outstanding . |
| 30 | He was carried off on a stretcher when the game was only 10 minutes old , after he had flown into a tackle from behind on Dean Saunders . |