Example sentences of "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 . |