Example sentences of "have [verb] [adv prt] into a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 SOONER than anyone expected , the mayoral contest in New York has shaken down into a re-run of the 1989 race between David Dinkins , now the incumbent , and Rudolph Giuliani , his Republican rival .
2 In her latest novel , Jazz , Toni Morrison has dipped back into a time before cross-over , when African-American music was all-black , in her quest for a uniquely black literary language .
3 Reality had become nightmare for them and they 'd opted out into a world where meals came , drugs were given , and all the doors were locked except for the bathroom .
4 On the bedside table , he was in the act of placing a Bible , so that he may have dropped off into a doze while reading it .
5 Connors said the guy must have curled up into a ball and hidden in a waste-basket .
6 The club , by now had spilled out into a sort of annexe conservatory at the back of the room and by the time the summer arrived , people were spilling out into the garden and , in fact , used to come into the club by this route illegally .
7 Sara carefully separated her gloves which she had rolled up into a ball .
8 Meh'Lindi had darted back into a service tunnel and was decamping as fast as could be , cradling Grimm who was wailing like a baby .
9 Great imperial systems propelled by steam have broken down into a myriad nationalities propelled by the internal-combustion engine and oil .
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