Example sentences of "[noun sg] had [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here a horse had bolted into a field . |
| 2 | He was obviously interested in the past history of the house , and , by the time they returned to the dance-floor , all her irrational fears and instinctive wariness of the tall dark man by her side had receded into the very back of her mind . |
| 3 | Still only 24 , he was currently campaigning in the Low Countries , but once the allied army on the Continent had gone into winter quarters he was brought home and his arrival in England , on 19 October , caused morale to soar . |
| 4 | By the time of the Norman invasion , the Saxon Manor had settled into a familiar form , with the Lord of the Manor , the reeve , the Hall , the lands retained in Demesne , lands let to tenants i.e. Villani , the Bordari or labourers , the Servi or slaves , in some cases Cotari , the tenants of part of the submanor , Free tenants , meadow land , mills , fisheries , woods for pannage and pasture . |
| 5 | Two months later spring had opened into full-blown summer . |
| 6 | if defendant had paid into court and plaintiff had accepted , plaintiff would have been entitled to an order for costs to be taxed if not agreed . |
| 7 | In Kinvig v Holland Hannen & Cubbitts [ 1977 ] CLY 373 an interesting situation arose because the plaintiff failed to beat a payment in but had his damages increased on appeal , although still not so as to bear the amount that the defendant had paid into court . |
| 8 | Certainly by 1100 the whole episode had fallen into almost complete oblivion . |
| 9 | The whole episode had passed into the mythology of the place . |
| 10 | They joined Mercy Chant as she came out of church , and walked together along the road Tess had walked into Emminster . |
| 11 | In fact , by 1988 General Electric had reorganized into fewer key businesses in order to overcome this problem , and in so doing had become more like a conglomerate . |
| 12 | What I did n't know then was the amount of work Niki had put into not only creating , testing and developing that car , but also dragging an unwilling and divided racing team in his wake . |
| 13 | The desperate ache in her seat had spread into her body as a lust , an urgent need for sexual gratification . |
| 14 | The blood had run into Cecilia 's face and she felt that its hot presence under her skin must burn Daphne 's mouth . |
| 15 | No new blood had come into the affairs of de Chavigny for years : everywhere Edouard found stagnation and apathy . |
| 16 | The car had rushed into view so unexpectedly and was moving so fast that Mary 's only chance of evading it was to jump . |
| 17 | The other car had skidded into hers and made her forget the phone call . |
| 18 | She 'd been so immersed in the music , letting it wash over her , uplifting her , that she had n't even realised that the car had turned into a short driveway to stop outside a luxurious chalet-type building set in a clearing of beech trees . |
| 19 | Suddenly swamped by exhaustion , she slumped back against the cushions and closed her eyes , reliving the awful moment when the car had slid into the snowdrift . |
| 20 | Then the police car had crashed into a fence . |
| 21 | The nationalist opposition had split into competing factions in the years before the election , and it never effectively challenged Sobhuza 's rule thereafter . |
| 22 | It was as if her mind had split into two separate portions , Gina thought as with one part of it she listened attentively to the technical explanations and absorbed the aesthetic appearance of the system with approving eyes , her creative instincts stimulated with the challenge with which she 'd been bestowed . |
| 23 | It just went to show what a distraught state her mind had slipped into . |
| 24 | Most of the tea had slopped into the saucer . |
| 25 | An easy symbiosis had come into being between the cultivated pagan and the educated Christian . |
| 26 | Yet a devil was loose somewhere , a restless imp had slipped into her and would not be harried or prayed out . |
| 27 | Daffodil had changed into a sparkling crimson dress and showed no pique over pampering finishing fifth . |
| 28 | By now the bucking roar of entry had subsided into a sibilant trembling caress imperceptible against the engine throb except to possessors of Lyman 's Ears . |
| 29 | I showed them the place where the monster had jumped into the lake . |
| 30 | ’ A note of uncertainty had crept into the wolves ' voices . |