Example sentences of "[Wh pn] had [adv] [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the following weekend , Ned had begun to lose interest in his lover and within two weeks , much to her distress , he began leaving her alone for long periods of time while he chased after a very attractive Border Collie who had just moved into a neighbouring street . |
| 2 | And into the confusion strolled an elderly passer-by who had just popped into the hotel for a quiet ploughman 's lunch and nearly passed out instead . |
| 3 | I was working for a yarn firm who had just gone into the marketing of coned yarns — unfortunately they did not stay the course . |
| 4 | In stark contrast to the attitude of the Scribes and Pharisees , Jesus pointed to a poor widow who had just come into the Temple and placed two small coins into the offertory box . |
| 5 | " I say , you do n't happen to know how this blessed thing works , do you ? " he asked the person who had just come into the music-room . |
| 6 | ‘ Is his name really that ? ’ said Penelope , who had just come into the kitchen . |
| 7 | Penelope had taken note of the two quite personable looking men who had just come into the hall ! and were standing looking about them with some bewilderment , as if uncertain what they ought to do . |
| 8 | Then his gaze moved to Merrill as Heather pulled Rob away to meet a small group who had just come into the room . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's going to be a long night , ’ he said , and he turned to Creed , who had just walked into the room , and smiled . |
| 10 | The woman who had just walked into the sitting room had most decidedly not put on weight ; nor had she let herself go … anywhere . |
| 11 | My fellow residents turned out to be a chap in his late thirties who was trying to put his life back together after the death of his wife and various other things , and a chap of about my age who had also run into problems after his wife died . |
| 12 | One day , soon after the girl 's departure , Tom had complained of pains in his chest after digging the new potato patch , a job which had formerly been undertaken by a youthful employee who had also disappeared into the army . |
| 13 | — who had secretly turned into Mrs Greene . |
| 14 | Only occasionally did she encounter fugitives from the slaughter who had wisely dodged into such hidey holes . |
| 15 | He rejoined Van Gelder who had already moved into the engine-room . |
| 16 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 17 | Apart from the headmaster , who had now gone into the school , the place seemed clear . |
| 18 | It was Cowley who had earlier put into words the fact that was so hard to take . |
| 19 | ‘ We have us some scum for the cooking pot too ! ’ cried Raphaelo Florienborque , who had never strayed into a kitchen in his life . |
| 20 | The occupier of a private house ( but not the owner of a house who had never entered into possession of it ) would probably be considered to be in possession of anything placed or left in it — at any rate unless it was concealed — while the occupier of a shop has been held not to be in possession of a thing dropped in a part of the shop to which the public had access . |
| 21 | I ventured to express exactly the opposite opinion and was stared at as if I were a hawker of ladies ’ underwear who had accidentally strayed into a monastery . ’ |
| 22 | Could she believe how well her son was faring against a man who had twice stepped into the ring with Mike Tyson ? |
| 23 | The proposal came through Branson 's youngest sister , Vanessa , who had recently gone into business as an art-dealer . |
| 24 | The first , signed by the outgoing Sandinista government and contra leaders , had agreed that an " effective and definitive ceasefire " was to take immediate effect and that the estimated 10,000-12,000 contras who had recently flooded into Nicaragua were to enter five security zones supervised by the 700-strong force of the UN Observer Group of Central America ( ONUCA ) and the staff of the International Commission of Support and Verification ( CIAV ) . |
| 25 | Thereafter Anselm gave him such aid as he could against the despoilers of his see among the Norman barons who had recently penetrated into southern Wales as far as Pembroke . |
| 26 | Since Richard held Seillan responsible for much of the trouble he refused to release him , either for a ransom or in exchange for prisoners taken by Count Raymond , even though these now included two of King Henry 's household knights , who had apparently wandered into the territory of Toulouse on their way back from the shrine of Compostella . |