Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] into [art] " in BNC.
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1 | As a significant movement of popular protest over sex purity marked a successful assault on the authority of male professionals , thereby drawing into the political arena groups hitherto denied access or without a voice . |
2 | She landed up with still more work on her hands when the wardrobe mistress fell ill and she found herself gamely stepping into the breach . |
3 | Beyond Blakeney , the combination of waters from the Blackpool and Soudley Brooks become known as the Bideford Brook , wending its way through the meadows , eventually emptying into the Severn at Brims Pill . |
4 | iii Caretaker or lost child : This child takes responsibility for the family and looks after it by gently blending into the background and keeping the peace . |
5 | It is exhilarating to begin the race with up to 500 people all surging into the water . ’ |
6 | This was all developing into a video nasty . |
7 | Yorkshire Television is apparently going into the new franchise with not a woman in its top rank . |
8 | They 're obviously going into a difficult area and if it breaks out into open conflict , there will be slight risk , but at the moment it 's fairly routine for us . |
9 | When people have taken too much drink it can make some strange situations , especially going into the locks |
10 | Having spent so long staring into the national navel we can raise our heads . |
11 | So changing into the future , you can do it at any time , what it actually means , it 'll affects the next month 's premiums , and switching , er , it 's on a bid to bid basis , from one fund to the other , and we charge them eighteen pounds per occasion . |
12 | That was when they all realized acting like this was only playing into the hands of the authorities and giving them a real basis for enforcing their petty laws . |
13 | Inside their families , too , their roles are in a state of flux , with the past , the peasant past , the tribal past , the colonial past each with its own particular prescription for the woman 's role constantly intruding into the present . |
14 | You 've no idea what 's been happening to us ! ’ she said , before suddenly bursting into a storm of tears . |
15 | After recent bad weather and rough seas , local farmers are concerned their land is literally disappearing into the sea . ’ |
16 | As I have argued elsewhere ( 1989 , pp. 169–71 ) , the temple functioned rather like a great medieval abbey , drawing and re-allocating large revenues from the surrounding area and thereby developing into a major centre of wealth and power . |
17 | The heaume or pot helmet appeared late in the twelfth century , eventually developing into a complete head covering . |
18 | They realised that with a car slowly sinking into the marsh there was not a minute to spare . |
19 | Its corpse lay at her feet , slowly sinking into the moss and mud . |
20 | He said : ‘ Time is running out , Northern Ireland is slowly developing into a Bosnia situation . |
21 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
22 | Opposite him DS Stuart Finn was smoking a Marlboro , blowing out streams of smoke , alternately gazing into the depths of his tea cup and glancing out of the window . |
23 | ( Cassettes of the album were already filtering into the higher regions of the music press ) . |
24 | They exchanged what he describes , with lowered eyes , as ‘ the usual preliminaries ’ , which I imagine to be a sordid discussion about the cost of one swift and surely emotionally unsatisfying and physically degrading copulation , and proceeded on their way up the now rapidly dusking street — one of them bright with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and the other already stepping into the heavy gloom of unavoidable and deserved shame or guilt . |
25 | Luney was already stepping into the boat when Franky saw Delia Sutherland half-way down the steps . |
26 | Corbett offered to double the usual fee and they were soon climbing into the skiff and making their way out across the Forth . |
27 | The four of them were just climbing into a long red two-seater sports car standing double-parked almost in the middle of the roadway . |
28 | He postulates that such particles spend most of their time in a non-material or etheric state , momentarily leaping into the physical plane like a salmon leaping fleetingly into view above the water surface . |
29 | We 've all seen pictures of Page 3 girls and pornographic images of women showing the female body in a constantly inviting , sexual way just walking into a newsagent 's on a Sunday morning often means you are surrounded by them ) and it is hardly surprising if girls themselves , as well as men , sometimes feel confused ; believing that girls might ‘ want ’ to be raped , or are asking for trouble , if they dress up to go out , or behave independently by going out or walking home alone . |
30 | A ship carrying some of his Greenland minerals became a prize-of-war and was taken into Leith where his collection was sold , thus passing into the hands of Scottish collectors . |