Example sentences of "had [vb pp] into their [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Paradoxically , it was in this administrative vacuum that many members of the Colonial Service felt they had come into their own . |
| 2 | On the other hand , Ken has been remembered and widely admired , not only by the Oxford Movement and their successors , as the noblest , most saintly and most charitable representative of the hundreds of Anglican clergy who had grown up under Puritan rule , sustained in their faith by the memory of King Charles the Martyr , ; they had come into their own at the Restoration but had later given up comfortable benefices to live in poverty , out of a scrupulous loyalty to a monarch to whose ecclesiastical ambitions they were utterly opposed . |
| 3 | The ban against marriage to a deceased wife 's sister was rescinded in 1907 , another sign that the middle classes had come into their own . |
| 4 | At least some of the ‘ fossils ’ , or outdated ‘ introns ’ , had come into their own again . |
| 5 | The Fauves , who owed more to Gauguin from a purely pictorial standpoint , inherited from him some of the spontaneity and decorative rhythms of Polynesian art ; and by 1907 both Matisse and Derain had absorbed into their own work some of the formal properties of tribal sculpture . |