Example sentences of "[verb] that they [was/were] [verb] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many of his crew believed that they were sailing into nothingness or that they might sail off the edge of the world . |
| 2 | Tom Kelly , director general of the Betting Office Licensees Association , confirmed that they were looking into the circumstances of the Lingfield race . |
| 3 | Although most of them were escaping from conventional regimental discipline , they did n't fully appreciate that they were running into a much more exacting type of discipline . |
| 4 | Some felt that they were hurrying into an epoch of unprecedented enlightenment , in which better education and beneficent technology would ensure wealth and leisure for all . |
| 5 | They were so dependent on Britain for their trade and knew that they were accepted into the EC only because we had become a member that it was not a subject that exercised them overmuch . |