Example sentences of "that had [adv] [vb pp] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Council of Nicaea set its seal on the structure that had thus come into being : a network of urban bishoprics , grouped into provinces headed by a metropolitan bishop , usually in the capital city of the civil province . |
| 2 | Like Flittern Rattletrap and Malengin Fole , he wore dark-coloured garments that had nearly fallen into rags . |
| 3 | The trucks thumped heavily past , one by one , with slow inevitable movement , as she stood insignificantly trapped between the jolting black waggons and the hedge ; then they curved away towards the coppice where the withered oak leaves dropped noiselessly , while the birds , pulling at the scarlet hips beside the track , made off into the dusk that had already crept into the spinney ( 4 ) . |
| 4 | As he remarks , there has been a widely held view ‘ that , in respect of early Baroque music generally … the proportional signatures … arose from within a system that had simply lapsed into ‘ chaotic confusion ’ so that they can be held to convey no precise or credible information . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , in early agricultural societies that had not developed into totalitarian welfare states child-rearing assumed a new and crucial importance which it had not possessed in the primeval hunter-gatherer societies ( except perhaps by default : that is , by not really existing as a means of cultural repression ) . |
| 6 | His frustration and anger had become angled towards the peculiar career situation of The Smiths , a position that had now grown into one of the most intriguing paradoxes in the history of rock . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The woman in the greengrocer 's shop would sometimes slip a bunch of violets or a single head of a chrysanthemum that had accidentally snapped into Melanie 's hand and this pleased her most of all . |