Example sentences of "had [adv] [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had since matured into an above average soldier and technician , talented , willing and desperate not to leave the army . |
| 2 | The Health Ministers of Argentina , Bolivia , Brazil , Colombia , Cuba , Ecuador , Peru , Venezuela and Spain met in the Bolivian city of Sucre on April 20-23 to discuss possible joint action to stem the cholera epidemic which first broke out in Peru in late January [ see p. 38002 ] , and had since spread into neighbouring Brazil , Colombia , Chile and Ecuador ( but not as yet into Bolivia or Venezuela ) . |
| 3 | He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation . |
| 4 | — who had secretly turned into Mrs Greene . |
| 5 | In His place , and with His power , something else had slowly congealed into transcendental existence . |
| 6 | To his second , favourite son Alfonso , he gave the Kingdom of Leon and the Campos Goticos , together with the tributes from the Moorish kingdom of Toledo , whose overlord he had successfully beaten into submission only a year before . |
| 7 | It was reported on Oct. 29 that Ariane 44-L had successfully launched into orbit the Intelsat VI communications satellite for the 110-member International Telecommunications Satellite Organization ( INTELSAT ) . |
| 8 | The people in the Tate house were victims of themselves because they had all fallen into sadism and masochism and recorded it on video-tape . |
| 9 | Within a few seconds they had all vanished into tiny , black holes . |
| 10 | The Welsh had all vanished into the hills , as they always vanish , and Henry marched his army back through Shrewsbury empty-handed . |
| 11 | The parents had all departed into the warehouse with Uncle Knacker to ‘ knock up a few looseboxes ’ . |
| 12 | The fetid stench of the darkened hut , the mind-dizzying rice alcohol , even Paul 's mocking laughter had all fused into a delicious composite memory now . |
| 13 | Maggie knew that many of her school-friends admired Phoebe ; they thought she was rather splendid , especially since they had all got into ecology , but this did not help Maggie . |
| 14 | Once we had all got into our canoes we were given a quick talk on safety procedure , capsize drill and what to do if you get into trouble . |
| 15 | ‘ I must say I 'd have been happier , ’ said Rose , when everyone was suited and they had all sunk into their chairs , ‘ if Viola had kept away . |
| 16 | They had all disappeared into the abbot 's hall now , whatever chance had brought him visiting would soon be known . |
| 17 | ‘ Fortunately , the nail had only gone into his chest wall and did not enter his lungs , we shall keep him here for a day or two under observation . ’ |
| 18 | With a hopeless shrug of resignation she hurriedly put on a slim linen dress , which she had only thrown into her case at the last minute . |
| 19 | Then John Gielgud opened in a Barrie play , but he had only got into the third act when the siren went . |
| 20 | As the conditions changed to the more temperate climate we know today , so the proportion of reptiles had decreased — but there was no overall trend of the kind that would be implied if the mammals had only come into existence in the later geological periods . |
| 21 | In the early decades of the century it had been widely assumed that the distinct geographical provinces of the modern world had only come into existence quite recently in geological terms . |
| 22 | Somebody had obviously come into some money . |
| 23 | Maybe Matthew would look at her with fresh eyes , realize that the innocent freckled little creature he used to take swimming ( or riding , or bicycling or something ) had suddenly grown into a beautiful woman . |
| 24 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 25 | Only four months previously the land had suddenly plummeted into the straits , taking with it a village of some eighty souls . |
| 26 | Some crates were as big as vacation cottages , because a hierarchy of crate status had suddenly come into being . |
| 27 | The measure was condemned by some economists as crude and ill-conceived , particularly since it threatened to wipe out the personal savings of many ordinary people : Soviet citizens were generally disinclined to place their money in accounts with the state savings bank , either because of mistrust , or because the low interest rate provided little incentive , or because it was necessary to carry a large amount of cash in case of chancing upon a scarce commodity which had suddenly come into stock in a state shop . |
| 28 | Then Waters hit me on the shoulder and I was off across the paddock concentrating on the spot where Werewolf had suddenly vanished into the trees . |
| 29 | Lewis was enjoying that Tuesday , the day on which Morse had suddenly spurted into a frenetic flurry of activity . |
| 30 | Though he had few intellectual interests , he was fascinated by the lineage of ancient families , such as his own , even of those that had long lapsed into obscurity . |