Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stepped back onto the concrete and came round to the front of the building where the flowering cherries were just coming into bud on the lawn . |
| 2 | The Last Movie was finally going into production . |
| 3 | As they climbed over the hedge , he was struck by the beauty of the day ; the hedgerows were just coming into leaf and the meadow was dotted with buttercups and daisies . |
| 4 | By 1719 , the buildings of both the house and the hall were rapidly falling into ruin and a storm of 1720 , blew parts of the hall to the ground , but a stone figure of Haymo blown from a niche over the door was undamaged , falling it is said on to some grass , this was later presented to the Bishop of Rochester . |
| 5 | ‘ It was n't funny at the time , of course , because young people were really getting into trouble for being too westernised ’ , she told me . |
| 6 | His eyelids were already fluttering into sleep . |
| 7 | They therefore proposed the idea of continuous creation whereby matter was constantly popping into existence . |
| 8 | My mother glanced at the clock before looking at the window to ascertain that the garden was already retreating into night , and drew the curtains . |
| 9 | German formations from the north were now marching into position on either side of 20th Corps , but those assigned to the left wing — called by the Germans the ‘ Eastern Group ’ — might have to face about if Rennenkampf marched south . |