Example sentences of "[was/were] [v-ing] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they were stumbling into the front row of people , on to rough grass . |
| 2 | At that time of the season all the players , even the stars , were looking into the assistant secretary 's office almost every day , asking if there was any news of their contracts . |
| 3 | Eva and my father were going into the front room , hand-in-hand , and they were reaching for each other low down , and clutching , tongues out , pressed against each other even before they 'd got through the door . |
| 4 | Another was that the child , who had always been sickly and scared , as though all her fortitude were going into the stiff orange fence hanging down her back , seemed to begin another kind of life as soon as it was cut off . |
| 5 | From the east , forces under Soviet command had taken Vienna on 13 April and troops of the Third Ukrainian Front under Marshal Tolbukhin were advancing into the eastern part of what it had been agreed would be the British Zone of Austria . |
| 6 | ‘ If you were falling into the black hole with the clock , when would the hands appear to stop ? ’ |
| 7 | When they looked back ‘ they saw that tanks were rolling into the demonstrating crowd ’ . |
| 8 | Cork were playing into the strong wind in the first half but made the early running with a sixth minute goal from Barry Egan . |
| 9 | Five minutes later , however , she became only too aware of other members of staff who were trickling into the social club as their shift ended and suddenly , mindful of the interpretation that had been put on her being with David Markham on the last occasion they had visited the club , she finished her drink and stood up . |
| 10 | ‘ O'Neill and O'Donnell crossed here with cannon and horses on the way to Kinsale in one night , ’ he told her as the car was climbing into the low mountains . |
| 11 | It also reported that the Regional Council was looking into the possible benefits of introducing a Geographical Information System ( GIS ) as a corporate resource and that road accident statistics was one of the pilot study areas . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | His head rested on the pillow at an unusual angle , the chin tilted abnormally high , so that , from the foot of the bed , Richard was looking into the dark pits of his nostrils . |
| 14 | And then she was looking into the compassion-filled face of Craig Grenfell . |
| 15 | so , and we were repressing , repression was pushing into the unconscious , so does the unconscious still exist as a place where we repress everything ? |
| 16 | And he advised parliament , when a House of Commons committee was enquiring into the provisional continuance of the prison hulks system in 1778 , that conditions had improved since his earlier criticisms and that he would support continued use of the hulks until transportation could be resumed . |
| 17 | When Allen at last found a crevice secure enough to trust to he looked over to find that he was peering into the little courtyard onto the rain-wet backs of the dejected horses . |
| 18 | After university it was announced that he was going into the armed forces . |
| 19 | er , first of all I would put it to my divisional board to my colleagues to ask for their thoughts and their advice erm , if they rejected it then it would n't go any further , if they approved it then it , because it was a budgetary item rather than just we can go out and spend it tomorrow , it was going into the following years budget , it would then go to the P L C board and they would have final say in whether that element should go into the , into next years budget |
| 20 | At this school exchange , however , my mother met another woman , who had a daughter there , who , miraculously , was going into the same class as me ! |
| 21 | ‘ As soon as it left my foot , it was going into the top corner , rising all the time . ’ |
| 22 | He was going into the unknown . |
| 23 | Steve Gaughan mustered his side 's first real effort after 35 minutes , a long range shot which Nigel Adkins saved at the foot of his post , but two minutes later they were almost level when a powerful Nick Cusack header from an Andy Toman cross was going into the bottom corner until Adkins somehow pushed the ball away . |
| 24 | But as the tenth century was turning into the eleventh we have the first signs of a new outlook . |
| 25 | It was a secret that made her even more different , because now that people were saying that she was turning into the dark beauty her mother had been , she knew much more about why men and women made babies , that it was n't because it was a duty to God but because they enjoyed it ; and seeing him in church every week , noticing that his voice was going deep and that her own body was changing too and that they were becoming man and woman made her think about him and long for him more and more : she wanted to have him completely , entirely for herself . |
| 26 | Prominent racing historian Reg Green said urgent action was needed to prevent the National that never was turning into the National without a future . |
| 27 | By that time , Freud certainly had moved on a bit , from the earlier , perhaps rather narrow concentration on the repression and he was moving into the second er era of psycho psychoanalysis when there was an emphasis more on the total personality on the ego and its mechanisms of defence , to quote a title of a famous book by , and I think this is more the kind of thing that Freud is doing in this book , where you , you see not just the repressions in the unconscious , but the whole personality , and you understand it , in terms of its various defensive erm , structures , and the way which it carried out its repression . |
| 28 | Dyson was glaring into the hot , oily darkness of the engine as if he were about to smash it to pieces with his bare hands . |
| 29 | Then with a splash she was plunging into the crystal-clear water , and , an instant later , bobbing unharmed to the surface . |
| 30 | He was staring into the black well of the stairs when he heard the noises . |