Example sentences of "he have [verb] into [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The student often becomes bored with the endless repetition of drills ; he is not necessarily able to transfer the patterns he has practised into creative communication outside a classroom situation ; and he does not necessarily know how and when it is appropriate to use the structures he has practised .
2 In the years since he 'd sunk into alcoholic indifference in the same job , which at his present age was less amazing .
3 It was almost as if he 'd vanished into thin air .
4 He had floated into unknown , and as soon as he was well , unknowable , realms .
5 An Oxford graduate , he had moved into general management in manufacturing and then into international construction and consultancy from which he had been headhunted by Richard Addis , now one of his senior partners .
6 The matter gave him enormous regret , no doubt an unhappy situation whose solution lay in the lap of the all-merciful Allah ; nothing would give him greater pleasure than to return to Mr Laing his passport , which he had taken into nightly safekeeping only at the specific request of Mr Pyle .
7 He had obviously showered , the almost-black hair falling in damp curls over his broad forehead , and he had changed into casual trousers and a shirt .
8 At a Burns Night party , some months earlier , he had bumped into Norman Stone , the Regius Professor of Modern History at Oxford .
9 Decision : the offender had a good record and a good job ; he had got into matrimonial and financial difficulties and was in debt .
10 My most abiding memory will not be of the joy of the French , but the terrible sight of Pete Sampras ' face at the prize giving ceremony which looked as if he had come into intimate contact with an atom bomb .
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