Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [v-ing] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett offered to double the usual fee and they were soon climbing into the skiff and making their way out across the Forth . |
| 2 | Colonel Lin Foh , and two bodyguards , were just stepping into the adjacent lift . |
| 3 | It was said of a similar occasion at Southend that the police were just rushing into the crowd and nicking anybody . |
| 4 | ( Cassettes of the album were already filtering into the higher regions of the music press ) . |
| 5 | The shape was roughly indented in the mud , but little runnels of water were already seeping into the indentation , for the tide had turned . |
| 6 | On that hole Stein and Otaki were already playing into the arena of grandstands . |
| 7 | People were always coming into the shop looking for things to copy . |
| 8 | Peat and water were still flowing into the underground roadways from the subsidence and attempts to block the exposed entrance to the workings were having no success . |
| 9 | There was some allowance made for this indirectly by assuming rather conservative lives for the inherited assets , and by the early 1950s , more of the higher postwar investment costs were also entering into the historic cost depreciation charges . |
| 10 | With David Sims off injured , Gloucester 's supply of ball dried up late in the game and they were also playing into the cold wind . |
| 11 | But a bridge ( ‘ Residents Only ’ ) led him across to the main channel of the Cherwell , where the water was still flowing fairly swiftly after the week 's earlier rains , and where pieces of debris were intermittently knocking into the sides of the banks , and then turning and twisting , first one way then the other , like dodgem cars at the fun-fair . |
| 12 | The high heels of Mrs Stych 's new , mink-trimmed bootees were now sinking into the Frizzell lawn and threatening to snap at any moment , so she knew she must be quick . |
| 13 | The plebs were getting everywhere , and in a survey of ‘ Cheap Literature ’ Mrs Bosanquet even found reason to frown upon the working-class lads who were now sauntering into the public libraries : |
| 14 | There was more in this vein as they turned right , and Mungo realized for the first time that they were actually heading into the forest . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In my right hand was a small tray , and by tilting it in the breeze I found that I could obtain enough lift to get up to any height I wanted , and was soon soaring into the air , travelling at will . |
| 17 | She looked familiar , and I was soon looking into the green and expressive eyes of Sally Drayton , who had been a fellow student at Sussex University . |
| 18 | Luney was already stepping into the boat when Franky saw Delia Sutherland half-way down the steps . |
| 19 | As the owl hooted and the night train called , Erika was already slipping into the state where the real world fades and the dreamworld begins , thinking of Fritz and that last , subtle touch of two hands . |
| 20 | Mrs Williams was already turning into the kitchen . |
| 21 | ‘ I felt a nine-match ban was a fair punishment for Davis , who was just breaking into the England squad at the time , and I suspect the FA may make an example of Ian as well . ’ |
| 22 | So as we were going along she was just going into the paper shop and she was on her way up to the one o'clock bus , so I called in to see Jackie and had a coffee and then we come home . |
| 23 | As they passed Mon Ré , the cream-coloured car was just turning into the drive ; and again the two bovine occupants stared at Breeze . |
| 24 | He was just turning into the featureless modern office block that housed the Heyes-Farringdon Company where Helen worked , when his eye was suddenly caught by a sign on the other side of the street : The Olivera Typewriter Company . |
| 25 | A figure in black was just disappearing into the wood . |
| 26 | he built this on and the country pub was just coming into the , you know , people were getting out in their cars and that , there was no breathalyser or anything and the |
| 27 | The Sunday Times , under Rupert Murdoch , was moving to the right , and Right-Ons now only had the weedy Observer , which was rapidly disappearing into the abyss of consumer journalism for the comfortable middle classes . |
| 28 | It was like getting into the bath |
| 29 | While I was still gazing into the water basin , the doctor then covered me with blankets , enclosing me in total darkness . |
| 30 | Hrun was still staring into the sky . |