Example sentences of "they have [vb pp] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Within seconds they 'd piled into a battered Mercedes and were fighting their way out on to the airport road . |
| 2 | From an outer façade of imposing honey-gold limestone and carved wooden balconies they 'd stepped into a world of contrasts , the latest modern technology against the sixteenth-century splendour of Maltese architecture . |
| 3 | so we made each what was the dining room they 've made into a bedroom , but just do n't that he , cos you could see them doing it . |
| 4 | They 've gone into a ‘ Chew and choke ’ to get some sandwiches but they 'll be back soon and I do n't have time to call the ‘ Bears ’ |
| 5 | The bees somehow convert the soup of rotten meat they 've collected into a more or less stable paste for storage in the nest cells . |
| 6 | I was quite tough with them and , though I 've only ever smacked them once — with the stick end of a feather duster which , since reading Mommie Dearest , they 've turned into a wire coat-hanger — I would often destroy them with tongue-lashings that still twist my conscience today . |
| 7 | Ye , well it 's not in the shop , I think it 's big country house they 've turned into a hotel or something . |
| 8 | things that happened to them while they were making the African Queen and , they 've turned into a story . |
| 9 | Here , they 've moved into a ventilation brick . |
| 10 | The point was to fire fast to persuade the French that they had run into a strong picquet line . |
| 11 | They had run into a few mobs of scuffling Haitians , but fortunately , they were mostly without firearms and so the Doctor and Howard had been able to drive through them , sending the mobs scurrying out of their way . |
| 12 | They slowed to give themselves a respite but realized in the succeeding moment that they had run into a dead end . |
| 13 | In origin these were scraps of waste wood for fuel , and by the mid seventeenth century they had grown into a form of wage supplementation . |
| 14 | It is perhaps not inappropriate to compare them to the astronauts in our own day : they had broken into an uncharted region , blazed a new trail to God and to the depths of the self and had returned to earth like the heroes of antiquity , bringing news of a hitherto unimaginable realm which gave an entirely new perspective on the human condition . |
| 15 | She was brutally assaulted by her brother 's friends , as they had turned into a frenzied mob . |
| 16 | The van jerked forward but he managed to keep the engine from stalling and within seconds they had turned into a sharp bend and the grotesque crater was no longer visible in the rear view mirror . |
| 17 | Instead , they had stumbled into a veritable snake pit . ) |
| 18 | Wigan began so explosively that they had raced into a 34–0 lead within a mere 20 minutes as they ran in six memorable tries . |
| 19 | They had gone into a huddle , obviously discussing their captives . |
| 20 | I had told Elizabeth that when my friends left Greece I always felt that they had gone into an underworld ; I wanted them back , but had no wish to go with them . |
| 21 | They had floated into a dream world of their own , and Lucy 's pulses were racing as she waited to be told he loved her . |
| 22 | They had not gone far , when they had stepped into a small clearing . |
| 23 | N.G. Attenborough and his crew were killed , although it was believed that they had flown into a balloon barrage . |
| 24 | However , by 1884 even his timid wife believed in his affluence as they had moved into a pleasant merchant 's house in Didsbury where their youngest children , Walter and Jessie , were born . |
| 25 | Somewhere between the time when they had fallen into an exhausted sleep and when she had woken to this grey dawn , all the joy and magic of what they had shared had faded , and she had been overcome by doubts . |
| 26 | They had swung into an avenue lined with gums , their stark , white trunks rising like pillars . |
| 27 | They had drifted into a brief alliance now because she was out of work and he was at a loose end emotionally , but it had not worked . |
| 28 | Three or four minutes after they had pulled into a field , Thomas saw a shape near the door . |
| 29 | Three or four minutes after they had pulled into a field , Thomas saw a shape near the door . |
| 30 | They had come into a gallery at the centre of which was a large glass case , round which the boys — apart from Khan and the Husayns — were crowded . |