Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [pron] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | To the rapid , repetitive beat two glistening bodies were contorting themselves into an impossible position , their backs horizontal to the floor and no more than a foot from it . |
| 2 | Quick replies by Kelly Shelford and Mark Elia led to the suspicion that New Zealand could score at will and were easing themselves into their stride , but doubts arose early in the second half with a succession of missed chances . |
| 3 | erm People were bringing it for us , friends were bringing it into us . |
| 4 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
| 5 | Here we were sorted our into groups according to the types of honours and quite a long wait ensued . |
| 6 | There was a problem during the er evidence to the various committees that were looking at the coal crisis and the problems in relation to coal , in that very often people were translating it into tonnage and the number of pits etcetera , whereas the argument needed to be that the rules of the game had been rigged in the first place at the privatization of electricity and the rules of the game need to be changed if we 're gon na succeed . |
| 7 | Around him the usual Massgoers , Benedicta included , watched fascinated as Athelstan urged the soul to go out to meet his Christ , whilst he , Athelstan , priest of that church , summoned God 's army to meet this unfortunate man 's soul ; they were to lead it into Paradise and ensure it did not fall into the hands of Satan . |
| 8 | Teachers , though in some cases suspicious that these new demands were turning them into social workers , realised that this role brought them benefits . |
| 9 | When Pietro told us that you were going on the pay-off I felt that you should know what you were getting yourself into . ’ |
| 10 | You were getting yourself into a whole load of trouble , Fran , and I needed to ensure that there would be someone around to look after you when I could n't be . |
| 11 | I thought you were getting yourself into trouble there again , but you tell me he ca n't be listening to you . |
| 12 | His claim that ‘ if they were to put me into a barrel , I would shout glory out through the bunghole ! ’ was not a facetious pose , but the normal expression of an irrepressibly good-humoured Christian . |
| 13 | If you were shining it into pure nothing you would n't see anything . |
| 14 | Ironically , it ended just as the Giants were putting themselves into the play-off hunt with a 27–7 victory over the Green Bay Packers for their third straight win . |
| 15 | That was gathering it in and if they were putting it into little into tramp coles I had to get up and tramp hay round and round the boss and er I did that . |
| 16 | Probably written in the winter of 1857 , those two words were to propel him into prominence and , ultimately , the White House as newspapers across the country broadcast his speech ( est. $300,000–500,000 ; £196,000–327,000 ) . |
| 17 | Leaving Alexandra at her door , unkissed , untouched , was one of the hardest things he had ever done , especially when what he had really wanted to do was to carry her into her bedroom — or his — and make love to her . |
| 18 | While she was helping me into yet another nightshirt , we talked . |
| 19 | He was drawing her into them . |
| 20 | And then the music was drawing him into the fire and the light , and he could see the massive shape of the Chariot limned against the forest now , bathed in its own radiance , hung with silk , lined with satin … |
| 21 | It was decided that he was bringing them into disrepute and should be dismissed summarily . |
| 22 | Also , this nomadic existence was bringing them into potential conflict with several different tax jurisdictions . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's only natural , ’ Harvey said , wondering why he was bringing her into it . |
| 24 | He looked at her with his blue eyes that made you feel you were in the far distance and he was bringing you into focus gradually , like a ball magnetised to drop into his outstretched hand , be clasped by his fingers . |
| 25 | PC margins have grown so slim that no one was incorporating them into PCs for multi media applications as there were no applications that could provide value to a user that bought them . |
| 26 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
| 27 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 28 | The day came suddenly and before I knew it my father was driving me into the town of Ipswich to drop me off near the studio . |
| 29 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 30 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |