Example sentences of "had got into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All through their brief history , the ants had got into the habit of deceiving themselves that there must be an Enemy . |
| 2 | He had got into the habit of examining himself minutely every morning and would squeeze and ‘ milk ’ his urethra to see if there was any sign of discharge . |
| 3 | Hitler and his panzers were sweeping all before them , they had got into the low countries and were heading for Britain . |
| 4 | The local doctor had got into the habit of calling after his morning surgery , not that there was much need . |
| 5 | I had got into the habit of tensing up my left leg which I probably did , initially , when I had my accident . |
| 6 | Next morning the gale frustrated attempts to use fireships against those which had got into the Vilaine but , in attempting to evade its pursuers , the Soleil Royal was forced on to an offshore shoal and burned by her own crew . |
| 7 | It also seems that at least one Hurricane had got into the air , for Sgt. ‘ Jock ’ Norwell of 261 Squadron noted in his logbook that he too was attacked by a Messerschmitt on this date , and his aircraft was damaged . |
| 8 | Because there is no rabbi in Orkney , the Jewish family had got into the habit of worshipping with the Quakers ; but the ecumenical element did n't end there . |
| 9 | ‘ I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . ’ |
| 10 | I wondered if she had gone through the same situation and if she had got into the car . |
| 11 | For a moment or two , as he waited in the queue behind a container-truck full of German furniture and a self-drive hire removal van , Lewis returned to speculating as to how and why those bones had got into the animal cemetery . |
| 12 | Mary screamed when a bat flew close to her , she said bats got in your hair , a bat had got into the hair of some relative of hers and bitten her scalp . |
| 13 | The band shelled out £10,000 hiring a mobile recording studio to capture the event — only to find afterwards that gremlins had got into the tapes and ruined the sound quality . |
| 14 | She had got into the wrong train . |
| 15 | Prudently , they had got into the Jubilee Line train at Finchley Road , in case someone they knew might be on the platform at West Hampstead . |
| 16 | Accountability is not confined to policy matters , as William Whitelaw found when he had to report to an astonished House of Commons that an intruder had got into the Queen 's bedroom at Buckingham Palace . |
| 17 | The Pic du Midi has long had an observatory on top , a very substantial structure indeed and occupied since I 88 I , after the scientists who started it had got into the arduous habit of spending their winters up here in a small hotel . |
| 18 | ‘ They made me feel like … some species that had got into the wrong time slot . |
| 19 | ‘ We 'll have fish tomorrow , ’ said Scarlet , who had got into the habit of ceaseless apology . |
| 20 | Suppose an intruder had got into the building ? |
| 21 | Although , despite her principles and her ingrained reluctance to compromise , she could not suppress a pang of gratitude even now — as she dished up her broth and herb dumplings for the candidate — that an attack of the low fever , caught as usual from terrible , tormented Mrs Rattrie who , this time , had died of it , had kept Luke in bed during that wild week last summer when the plugs had been drawn from Braithwaite 's boiler and all Luke 's brave young friends who had got into the habit of gathering to smoke their pipes and set the world to rights of an evening in her hen-run , had gone marching off to join their " brothers ' from across the Pennines . |
| 22 | Since she had got into the car with him to come here he had become still and watchful — worrying . |
| 23 | He was not sure how she would take it , leaving the house before they had intended and moving up north ; also , in the last few years he had got into the habit of sparing her any unnecessary decisions or arguments . |
| 24 | The women had got into the way of going up on the deck every evening . |
| 25 | There were a lot more long balls down the middle of the field than usual , simply because Beeny was putting them there whereas Lukic had got into the habit of putting them in the stand . |
| 26 | The defect in this case though , a drop of sealant had got into the lubrication system , went beyond mere teething trouble . |
| 27 | The inquest heard that the children had got into the site through a hole in a wire fence which had been made by the fire brigade to drain and the tank . |
| 28 | Some of the men had got into the car and he had been accused of ‘ grassing ’ . |
| 29 | In fact the chicken had been alive but sick , and the cat had got into the oven of his own accord after a bit of baked fish . |
| 30 | It could have been a dire result if they had got into the surf . |