Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | While Francis had been gazing into the unseeable distance , the wall had extended several metres across the clearing . |
| 4 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Lightweight leather boots had been creeping into the market since the 1970s or even earlier , but were not made using the new technology . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |