Example sentences of "he had [adv] [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | he had immediately checked into the Shelbourne , one of Dublin 's premier hotels , and spent the next hour soaking himself in a bath , washing away the grime of the rough sea-crossing . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he had since matured into an above average soldier and technician , talented , willing and desperate not to leave the army . |
| 4 | He had also seen into the mind . |
| 5 | Weeks later , he had finally moved into an independent flat . |
| 6 | He had naïvely stumbled into the middle of a very complicated and dangerous situation . |
| 7 | But he had not gone into details , giving only the bare outline , the facts , and Lili had asked few questions . |
| 8 | He had not gone into the house at all and now he was furiously driving off . |
| 9 | When Mr Patel had passed , the previous evening and that morning , the man 's head and shoulders had been underneath the car , and no , he had not come into the shop at all . |
| 10 | The fact he had not come into the kitchen meant he felt unwanted , and this brought Faye in with , " And there is no place we can talk in this house now . |
| 11 | Indeed , he might be within the sections and subject to orders even though he had not entered into a transaction with the company or debtor at all . |
| 12 | The day before he had just bumped into Mauve , ‘ happily delivered of his large picture , ’ who had promised to call in . |
| 13 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 14 | It was all right for Alain ; he had simply got into his car and driven away . |
| 15 | Without her even being aware of it he had somehow moved into the cabin , leaving her standing at the open door . |
| 16 | Every time Dustin saw his name in block letters on the marquee of a movie house , he was assailed with thoughts of his own mortality , a subject that constantly obsessed him , especially as he had already seen into the abyss . |
| 17 | It was as if he no longer existed : he had already merged into their grey landscape , claimed by the marshes , the mud , the rocks and the waves . |
| 18 | The autobiography — Sins of My Old Age and Earlier he had already dipped into , and he went back to it reluctantly for a more systematic reading . |
| 19 | In addition to the $400 million which he had already paid into an SEC disgorgement fund , he was due to provide a further $500 million to be contributed in tranches over five years . |
| 20 | She had declared that Edwin must henceforward run the Ashwell estates , as if he had already come into his inheritance . |
| 21 | Thank God he had n't barged into the bathroom to ministrate . |
| 22 | For a bet , he had once broken into the flat where a certain Vice-Questore was entertaining a lady friend and removed the couple 's clothes so stealthily that the Vice-Questore thought something supernatural must have occurred and came over all religious for a while . |
| 23 | He put all the skills he had ever learned into the timbre of his voice . |
| 24 | He had rapidly expanded into importing sportswear and equipment from all over the world , and he and Bobby Stoute had enterprisingly approached several hotels on the island for sales outlets on their premises . |
| 25 | Thank goodness he had never rushed into anything-though that was partly because he had never found the woman he wanted to rush into anything with . |
| 26 | She had been instrumental in putting him in touch with Liza although , as things had turned out , he could not help thinking that it might have been better if he had never bumped into her that day in Piccadilly . |
| 27 | Then John Gielgud opened in a Barrie play , but he had only got into the third act when the siren went . |
| 28 | The newsreader would have achieved the same effect if he had suddenly broke into song . |
| 29 | He had hardly moved into his palace before James , Duke of Monmouth , the illegitimate but protestant son of Charles I , returned to claim the throne from the Roman Catholic James II . |