Example sentences of "was [adv] [v-ing] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was all developing into a video nasty . |
| 2 | At the Buckinghamshire contest , the Whigs ' supporters put wool in their hats , " saying " t was all going into France , and they were resolved to keep some o n't , before " t was all gone " . |
| 3 | This was all turning into Saturday-morning chapter play . |
| 4 | He was obviously coming into form . |
| 5 | They therefore proposed the idea of continuous creation whereby matter was constantly popping into existence . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | When West Indies batted , Richards was soon laying into them , hammering a six and twenty fours in 119 not out . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The vamp was soon turning into a lady again though , and by the third song , a moody version of the classic Little Anthony and the Imperials hit ‘ Tears On My Pillow ’ , the audience was seeing a sophisticated side to Kylie too . |
| 11 | The Last Movie was finally going into production . |
| 12 | Still shy and overweight , she was nevertheless developing into a popular character . |
| 13 | It is possible to imagine that one of them was brightening with the low cunning of unscrupulous greed and that the other was already stepping into that heavy gloom of shame and guilt which could only take him to the hospital or worse . |
| 14 | Luney was already stepping into the boat when Franky saw Delia Sutherland half-way down the steps . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Michael was already slipping into a coma after three hours in the cold seas . |
| 17 | Some hoarse Czech expletive rent the air , then ‘ Forget it ! ’ he snarled , and was already getting into his trousers . |
| 18 | The heads of the black-headed gulls were turning white now , and on the moorland the fur of the mountain hares was already moulting into white for the winter . |
| 19 | My mother glanced at the clock before looking at the window to ascertain that the garden was already retreating into night , and drew the curtains . |
| 20 | He moved faster than I would have thought anyone could on a train and was already talking into a radio headset when I reached his office . |
| 21 | He had something up his sleeve … an idea had germinated and was already going into action . |
| 22 | Mrs Williams was already turning into the kitchen . |
| 23 | With the spotlight on him , Mr Getty could no longer keep his bolt-hole in the Ritz private and was shortly settling into Sutton Place , the Duke of Sutherland 's Tudor manor house in Surrey , with seventy-two rooms and 750 acres . |
| 24 | Well , it turned out he used to be a ‘ pretty successful writer ’ , but then he found he was just getting into ‘ things that were too weird . ’ |
| 25 | A smaller delivery van from a wholesaler was just moving into her unloading yard . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Yeah she had it , she was just going into theatre at the end of the programme , she was having it done for the fourth time |
| 29 | As they passed Mon Ré , the cream-coloured car was just turning into the drive ; and again the two bovine occupants stared at Breeze . |
| 30 | 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 . |