Example sentences of "have [vb pp] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I was hoping it would have developed into a serious relationship , ’ he says , a line Best will recognise . |
| 2 | At best it seems , a national strike would have developed into a bitter war of attrition which the unions , with their meagre resources , could only have lost . |
| 3 | If the Scud attacks had provoked Israel into entering the war , experts say it could have developed into a global conflict . |
| 4 | In Por Tanssie , no one would have marched into a room uninvited in case the person inside was in a state of undress . |
| 5 | If he were not a mere creature of my mind I imagine he would by now have fallen into a dangerous sleep of despair and exhaustion , frozen in a little car outside a small cottage he is too fearful to enter . |
| 6 | In spite of falling into bed feeling wide awake and convinced she would be awake for hours , she must have fallen into a deep sleep that had lasted for all of ten minutes ! |
| 7 | ‘ My lord , ’ he said , restraining what could easily have blossomed into a glow of triumph , ‘ even a layman may be inspired to speak prophecy . |
| 8 | It was not the quantity of stars that was so impressive , though if there had been more they would have blended into a whitewash , nor was it their brilliance , though they were a dazzling variation of colour and size , but that they seemed alive . |
| 9 | By this stage , you may already have booked into a dog training class . |
| 10 | Would she have collapsed into a heap if she 'd learnt that Stephen was silent because he was wondering if his father had murdered his mother ? |
| 11 | Terence 's face went from being startled by his attack to astonishment , then might have cracked into a smile . |
| 12 | You could have vanished into a Scotch mist and taken a boat to one of the Western Isles — with all the plate and linen , etc. , etc. — for all I am aware . |
| 13 | A thirteenth-century man who was free to leave his own tithing ( or who absconded ) for a nearby town would not long be called Matthew atte Middele ( Matthew who lives in the middle of the village ) , or such , but rather Matthew Longback or Matthew of ( or from ) Thornbury , depending on which struck his new friends as the more appropriate , and the new identification may well have turned into a surname and passed down the generations . |
| 14 | Some have intimated that these contacts , while not illegal , raise suspicions that the superfund 's huge cache for money may have turned into a political slush-fund , spread around to fertilise the candidates of loyal Republicans . |
| 15 | But remember that dreams and ambitions change as you get older , by his forties your high-flier may have turned into a slippers and spaniel man , and who knows , by then you may want to be PM . |
| 16 | Scanning the names of judges , senior policemen , politicians , journalists and hoodlums , together with the abrupt manner of their disposal — shot , strangled , dissolved in acid , fed to pigs — the reader is left in little doubt that , although today 's Mafia may have grown into a global enterprise , it is still a long way from joining the ranks of the world 's leading multinationals . |
| 17 | But I discerned that she was a pretty child , one who would have grown into a beauty had she been allowed the opportunity to age . |
| 18 | Today , the result of our labours was several long rows of planted saplings which , in ten years ' time , will have grown into a grove of pussy willows doing useful service as a screen for walkers . |
| 19 | If she had n't come into the family … his family , would Matthew have turned out the way he was now , or would he have grown into a fine young man with a greater sense of responsibility towards his sister ? |
| 20 | Any other time , McEnroe would have exploded into a torrent of abuse , but this time he just walked away . |
| 21 | What might have been first visualised as a basic low cost word processor might have transformed into a full blown all bells and whistles application that has spreadsheets and databases built in , yet , if you 're still using the first release , you could be losing out . |
| 22 | How could coypu have got into a Suffolk pond ? |
| 23 | He could scarcely have packed into a single letter more matter offensive to the ideals of the reformed papacy . |
| 24 | But he could not have guessed that , almost fifty years later , Eliot would be loaded with honours and with happiness while he himself would have retreated into a silence of guilt and despair . |
| 25 | It was unfortunate for Virgin that in applying for ‘ exemption ’ to fly into America they should have walked into a simmering row between the American and British governments over the British refusal to allow PanAm to operate a third frequency across the Atlantic . |
| 26 | He accepted Christianity when the missionary Poppo proved the efficacy of the Christian god by undergoing the ordeal of carrying hot iron , and may have entered into a subordinate relationship with the German emperor Otto I. However , he rebelled after Otto 's death in 973 , and the following year was defeated at the Danevirke , a Danish defensive rampart in southern Jutland connected to the east with the important town of Hedeby . |
| 27 | ‘ With hindsight , perhaps we should n't have gone into a peripheral business , ’ he concedes . |
| 28 | Social workers were given specific help in identifying their function to find ways to keep old people at home who might otherwise have gone into a residential home . |
| 29 | ‘ Then he must have gone into a steep dive . |
| 30 | So far as Vecchi was concerned , the guy must have climbed into a hole in the ground and pulled the lid over his head . |