Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [vb pp] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fingered Jo 's credit cards , which I 'd slipped into a trouser pocket . |
| 2 | Some months earlier he , my step-mother and I had moved into a bungalow at 1122 Henleaze Avenue . |
| 3 | During the summer of 1979 I had moved into a collective house whose occupants were libertarian hippies , socialists , Christians and noisy heterosexual feminists . |
| 4 | And if I had turned into a handsome prince Gillian would probably have shown me — him — the door . |
| 5 | Could I ever again trust the being I had turned into a sort of god ? |
| 6 | So taken was I with this vision of perfect Iceland that I did not realise that I had walked into a skua colony , not , that is , until one fearless great skua hit me . |
| 7 | I knew then that I had walked into a situation from which there would be no escape . |
| 8 | He had gone there expecting ‘ to suffer the tedium of a few years living in the backveld , in order to make some very necessary repairs to the fortunes of myself and my small family ’ but found that ‘ against all expectations I had wandered into a bewilderingly interesting , exciting and varied World ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ Well I 've run into a spot of bother . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a piece of teak I 've carved into a hex sign up there , ’ he pointed out . |
| 11 | I 've turned into a Dinner Lady overnight |
| 12 | This is where I get nervous because I know I 've come into a word I know I ca n't pronounce . |
| 13 | I 'm ok during the week , I 've got into a routine of getting up and going to and all the rest of it , but weekends I have every other weekend off , it 's not quite a routine is it ? , |
| 14 | Like many others , I suspect , I have gone into a shop of whatever description linked to a current hobby , have asked a few pertinent questions , and have then exited clutching some new-bought kit . |
| 15 | ‘ Since coming back from maternity leave I have plunged into a new area . |
| 16 | She has turned into a champion of the underdog , gone out on a limb to support unglamorous causes like AIDS victims , drug abusers and the mentally handicapped . |
| 17 | An older person who has been accustomed to being in charge does n't suddenly stop feeling responsible for other people just because he or she has gone into a Home . |
| 18 | For a while there I thought you 'd gone into a coma . |
| 19 | But as of , as of nineteen forty eight forty nine , if you 'd said you 'd gone into a village , right you guys we 're going into socialism , we are gon na create collective farming the peasants would have said no . |
| 20 | If you 'd gone into a , with an opposing team 's colours into a standing zone police would n't have let you go in there let alone wa you wanting to go there . |
| 21 | They stared at her as if she 'd turned into a circus freak . |
| 22 | It all looked delightfully cosy , with an en-suite bathroom , but Kate backed out of the room as quickly as if she 'd walked into a pit full of rattlesnakes . |
| 23 | She 'd got into a lot of trouble over many little things , for instance , her clothes in the changing room were being thrown down in a pool of water , and was soaking wet , she had to take them to matron to be dried , matron was cross . |
| 24 | 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 ? |
| 25 | Perhaps you should open your heart a little to him , honey , make him aware you 've grown into a very pretty young lady . ’ |
| 26 | You 've grown into a very beautiful young woman , Alice , and I do not like to see beauty wasted . |
| 27 | ‘ Think you 've strayed into a madhouse , I dare say . ’ |
| 28 | Now you 've flowered into a beauty , |
| 29 | 26 You 've entered into a bet that you 'll sleep alone in the forest tonight . |
| 30 | ‘ The fact is , my dear boy , you 've entered into a liaison with a woman who is totally unsuitable on every count . ’ |