Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [adv] [vb pp] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parents had all departed into the warehouse with Uncle Knacker to ‘ knock up a few looseboxes ’ . |
| 2 | The barrel stood beside the cauldron — a good measure of its fiery contents had already disappeared into the seething pot together with some peppermint herbs , firebalm , and certain other ingredients gathered by Gambo early that morning ( a good cook has his secrets , and Gambo had more than most ) . |
| 3 | Iraq categorically denied such reports , but they persisted in the West and one US news agency reported later in the day that Iraqi troops had actually crossed into the Kuwaiti-Saudi Neutral Zone . |
| 4 | Firstly , government officials had not gone into the implications for management committees . |
| 5 | Things had now degenerated into a blood lust . |
| 6 | For Rosebery , for Milner , even for Lloyd George , there had been temptation in coalition ever since the Boer War , but such dreams had never come into the political daylight . |
| 7 | Wendell Harvey regarded his daughter thoughtfully as she rearranged the big vase of flowers one of the servants had just carried into the room . |
| 8 | But Karl Hufbauer has provided a thoughtful analysis of how , before Germany was unified and chemistry professionalised in the 19th century , German chemists had already coalesced into a national , discipline-orientated community . |
| 9 | Most of the inhabitants had probably escaped into the night , and there had been little killing , although a number of women undoubtedly had been caught and forced to pay the price of conquest . |
| 10 | The three BBC men had innocently blundered into a private war over access . |
| 11 | These markets had either disappeared into the new Poland , or they were screened off by the Corridor . |
| 12 | She did n't go so far as to give me her telephone number , but I prudently copied it from the instrument at a point during the interview when she was distracted : when one of Brenda 's children had somehow slipped into the room to find a drum stacked halfway down a pile of similar toys . |
| 13 | All the sect heavies had thereupon melted into the dark gaps among the trees . |
| 14 | In 1950 the Russians had their headquarters in what had been the Imperial Hotel , a fine baroque building which the Russians had quickly turned into a slum as they found it hard to understand the intricacies of a modern plumbing and toilet system which few of them had ever seen before . |
| 15 | Its excesses had already degenerated into the sacrifice of living beings and its Chaotic nature was increasingly evident . |