Example sentences of "had [verb] [pron] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 2 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 3 | The devil had booked them into the same room . |
| 4 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 5 | What magic did these brothers possess that had catapulted them into the rarefied atmosphere of the multi-billionaires . |
| 6 | Now , somehow holding a piton with his useless hand , he had to hammer it into the rock with the other . |
| 7 | We 'd have seen if one of us had tipped something into the soup . ’ |
| 8 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 9 | With automatic professionalism Folly had carried them into the bathroom and begun to hunt around for a suitable container before her mind turned back to the question of who could have sent them . |
| 10 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 11 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 12 | Six years later Murphy had turned it into the biggest agency in Scotland , overtaking Barkers , traditionally the market leader , and bought it out ( the implicit threat being that he would start up on his own ) for £100,000 . |
| 13 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 14 | Luke could have done with more help , but Umberto had barricaded himself into the tack room with another bottle . |
| 15 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 16 | He took her hand , linking his long , hard fingers between hers , joining them in a physical as well as a mental bond , and suddenly Fran knew that she wanted to tell him the one thing that had fashioned her into the woman she was . |
| 17 | He had left the money with his sister but had been caught after she had handed it into the police . |
| 18 | Kimon , therefore , was dumped by ( among others ) his own troops of a few months before — he was , after all , the man who had got them into the Ithome mess . |
| 19 | Sotheby 's Amsterdam , recently announced with pride that they had got themselves into The Guinness Book of Records . |
| 20 | They had to help me into the house and let me rest in a chair . |
| 21 | So Lexy was one of the three girls mentioned by the whispering woman who had shown her into the Seraglio . |
| 22 | Barry had flung it into the hedge . |
| 23 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 24 | Then the machine started printing lines all over the paper and we had to send someone into the shops to remove all the faulty rolls . ’ |
| 25 | Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD . |
| 26 | He was Thorfinn 's first cousin , and his very revolt against his heritage had driven him into the arms of Siward and Durham . |
| 27 | ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’ |
| 28 | Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission . |
| 29 | Nine of the birds , confiscated from poachers who had smuggled them into the US from Mexico , have survived and seem to be doing well . |
| 30 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |