Example sentences of "and [pers pn] was [v-ing] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few minutes later and I was getting into the rescue ambulance for a short ride to the Belford Hospital in Fort William . |
| 2 | On the sixth one it was like this sort of year and I was getting into Christmas and that . |
| 3 | I was in another world by this time , inhabited by see-through creatures resembling owls and parrots ; it was a sweltering hot day and I was turning into a pond to support a dying race of transparent tadpoles . |
| 4 | It was like being in the adit of a mine , and I was driving into the bowels of the earth with a man who seemed hell bent on risking our lives for no apparent reason . |
| 5 | Leaning over the glass counter of his booth , the young man in charge was deep in conversation with an elderly gentleman draped with cameras , and she was gazing into the face of quite a different person . |
| 6 | She had not the least idea what was going on , and she was smiling into the night in enquiry and wonder , her brows arched halfway to laughter , her lips parted in a whimsical welcome to whatever might be pending . |
| 7 | 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 . |