Example sentences of "[pers pn] was [v-ing] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having established what I was looking into , my interlocutor would ask , ‘ And have you found anything which makes you believe it 's true ? ’ |
| 2 | At one time it was quite obvious that his main sponsor , Essex Petroleum , run by the flamboyant American ex-decorator and former Brussels bus-boy , David Thieme , was in some sort of dire trouble and that this trouble was bound to affect Team Lotus as it did ; Chapman knew I was looking into the complex affairs of Thieme and Thieme 's longstanding relations with Lotus . |
| 3 | ‘ For weeks I was looking into the face of every stranger thinking ‘ you could be the one that killed my Brian ’ , ’ said Joan . |
| 4 | Round about Camden , I was drifting into sleep when the driver slapped his thigh and said ‘ Well , I do n't know , I do not know . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I was flying into it . |
| 6 | I was reading into it what I thought she must be feeling , certain that she was n't threatened by Robert 's infidelity , yet challenging him with her smile . |
| 7 | I was leaning into the car to get the toddler out of the baby seat when I heard the shot . |
| 8 | A few minutes later and I was getting into the rescue ambulance for a short ride to the Belford Hospital in Fort William . |
| 9 | I 'd used dikes , DFs and things like that before , so I knew what I was getting into . |
| 10 | He started then with the money , because he had the giro , so I was getting into a mess again , was n't I. So for a couple of weeks we were paid separately . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know what I was getting into , it sounded all right . |
| 12 | " Just as I was getting into it , too . |
| 13 | I found that sentence easier because I knew what I was getting into . |
| 14 | ‘ I did n't realise what I was getting into , ’ he admits , ‘ but I do know that this will be by far the hardest thing I 've done in my life . ’ |
| 15 | As I was getting into the car I remembered about the Propamidine . |
| 16 | ‘ I admit I was getting into a state . |
| 17 | However , one evening in November that year , shortly after the birth of my daughter , Lucy , I started to think about black holes as I was getting into bed . |
| 18 | I already knew it was n't a good idea ; I could hear the tone of my voice rising higher and higher as I spoke the sentence , and that was always a sign I was getting into some sort of verbal mess . |
| 19 | On the sixth one it was like this sort of year and I was getting into Christmas and that . |
| 20 | Then I was slamming into Elk 's Club Surf , still sliding left , still fighting for balance , for everything and anything that would keep me upright . |
| 21 | ON FRIDAY , November 22 , 1963 , I was tucking into a steak in the Bellevue Arms at Whitewell outside Belfast when the news that shocked the world came on the radio . |
| 22 | We had arrived in Barbados only 12 hours earlier , and instead of dead streets and dog walkers , I was running into another world . |
| 23 | At each turn of the zigzag , the wheelbarrow toppled , and when I was tacking into the wind , grit , picked up by the wheel was blown into my eyes and mouth . |
| 24 | I did n't realize that by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap . ’ |
| 25 | Four-thirty in the morning , as I was changing into a nice fresh pyjama top , it struck me blitheringly between the brows : Re:Joyce . |
| 26 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 27 | I was peering into the gloom . |
| 28 | I placed my pipes and rucksack on the back seat of the jeep and informed the driver that I was going into the orchard for a last look round . |
| 29 | But as I was going into it the sun came out , challenging the smell from the night lavatory . |
| 30 | I thought I was going into a different world when I entered Germany . |