Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] into the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations .
2 He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back .
3 Parker brushes aside any doubts about the ability of mainframe operating systems to take advantage of parallel machines , pointing out that the company has been researching into the approach for a number of years .
4 Taiwanese investment has been flowing into the mainland since the early 1980s , but in the past year the flow has become a flood .
5 The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle .
6 We had been taking into the adult wards men and women suffering from the most serious fevers , encephalitis lethargica , polio-encephalitis , serious poliomyelitis , with two ‘ Iron lung ’ cases in a special isolation ward and unit , tuberculous meningitis , and poliomeningitis were also with us .
7 The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago .
8 Zelma , bless her , who has always regarded her son-in-law as a sort of concierge who somehow manages to throw up the odd masterpiece in between sitting at a desk , gazing uselessly out of the window and making endless messes in her kitchen with his coffee dregs and fag ash , had been popping into the study at fairly regular intervals , with unspecific enquiries .
9 Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire .
10 Lightweight leather boots had been creeping into the market since the 1970s or even earlier , but were not made using the new technology .
11 They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business .
12 More than 12,000 people , from company directors to filing clerks , had been streaming into the share sorting centre with last-minute applications since the doors opened at 7.45am .
13 I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days .
14 Hyacinth , happily unused to the ways of the more unscrupulous telly interviewer , promptly stuck a roll of paper she had been carrying into the broadcaster 's eye , thus bringing the proceedings to a close .
15 There was a fight of some kind going on to my left ; all the people who a minute ago had been fleeing into the bush were just as suddenly pouring back .
16 It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin .
17 A lot of people have been laying into the Tomlinson report on London 's health services , and it was hardly surprising to find one of the most vociferous was NUPE 's general secretary Rodney Bickerstaffe .
18 Highly toxic chemicals from the Atomic Energy Authority 's research centre at Harwell in Oxfordshire have been leaking into the groundwater , according to a report commissioned by the authority .
19 For very much longer nutritionists have been delving into the values and virtues of vitamins , minerals and the proteins necessary for growth and repair of body tissue .
20 So , while in the past we have been placing into the care of the private sector the management of predominantly physical activities , we are now privatising parts of the local authority that are direct holders and processors of information .
21 A GROUP of British students has recently returned from a trip to South America , where they have been researching into the flora and fauna of the Colombian Amazon basin .
22 Those biomek filaments have been growing into the tank , you know .
23 Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made .
24 Applications have been flowing into the Manor Ground but no moves have yet been made .
25 THE thousands of Welsh supporters who have been pouring into the Edinburgh area for the past two days are well catered for if they want to sample club rugby before tomorrow 's Royal Bank international , writes Harry Pincott .
26 Clothes and bric-a-brac have been pouring into the hospice 's charity shops in response to an appeal for more goods .
27 • Details of the latest whacky software have been flooding into the office .
28 Th the notes that 're attached are actually for er he 's been looking into the matter and basically it 's for information only really
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