Example sentences of "was [v-ing] into a " in BNC.
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| 31 | He felt the whole thing was turning into a game in which each watched the other and paralleled their next move . |
| 32 | She was turning into a different person with a different face . |
| 33 | A former pool had silted up and was turning into a miniature reed marsh . |
| 34 | ‘ But it was turning into a very , very serious problem . |
| 35 | It was turning into a bright , sunny morning . |
| 36 | He was turning into a porky little Buddha , but compared to everyone else in the room he was life itself , vibrant , irreverent and laughing . |
| 37 | Not because the decision in Spain weighed on him , but because while Niki 's Ferrari continued to perform with unfailing reliability , his own car , due to minute adjustments to accommodate new regulations , was turning into a pig : proof once again that even the tiniest changes in a car can gravely affect its performance and that it is the smallest defects that are the hardest to detect . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The posh end of the market was dominated by new-wave consumer journalism which was turning into a grotesque parody of the ‘ lifestyle ’ politics the Right-Ons had pioneered . |
| 40 | Already , within a week of being launched , what the conspirators had intended as a smooth , swift , surgical coup d ‘ état was turning into a full-scale civil war . |
| 41 | If anything , these developments strengthened the links with England : the sugar planters , just like the tobacco farmers , needed a market to which they could send their staple export product , and England was turning into a market that was always ready to absorb new products for domestic consumption or for re-export through its expanding commercial system . |
| 42 | And there was still the absurd question of protocol involved in who should occupy the Presidential Palace in Saigon which was turning into a long-running farce and one that was unlikely to be resolved in Bao Dai 's favour as long as de Lattre was High Commissioner . |
| 43 | Nathan was a simpleton : fat-faced and cretinous , with a drooly mouth and a silly smile , and when he tried to join in the hymns he made a terrible braying noise because he was turning into a man much too early . |
| 44 | Soon after Naxos , Athens undertook a big aggressive campaign in the south-eastern Aegean , under Kimon 's leadership ; this was perhaps in response to allied discontent at the way the league was turning into a machine for policing its own members . |
| 45 | She was turning into a tart before my eyes . |
| 46 | I could feel the pain beginning again , and my smile was turning into a grimace . |
| 47 | She looked again at the rear-view mirror and saw that the Audi was turning into a side road , allowing her to go . |
| 48 | Her life was turning into a series of unanswered questions . |
| 49 | He told me I was turning into a jealous old queen but before he slammed the phone down he agreed not to tell Mother about the death . |
| 50 | She was turning into a real weepie ! |
| 51 | By the time Woolley arrived in her ward she was turning into a slaughterhouse attendant : she no longer saw them as men but as damaged stock ; if they screamed it was not a sign of pain but a signal to fetch a doctor . |
| 52 | However , Howe was turning into an alcoholic owing to his frequenting many alehouses around Edinburgh and this , coupled with his deafness , meant he was preyed upon by unscrupulous acquaintances so that when he died in 1836 at Newhaven , near Edinburgh , he was almost a pauper . |
| 53 | UDF leader and former President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing said in an interview in Le Figaro of Sept. 21 that immigration was turning into an " invasion " . |
| 54 | She 'd started out meaning to apologise , but there was something so darned aggravating about this man that it was turning into an accusation instead . |
| 55 | Even in the twenty minutes it had taken to get some nourishment , the light had faded and the dull day was darkening into a cold night ; the beginnings of a frost crackled under their feet as they walked briskly along the embankment . |
| 56 | The sky was darkening into a grey mother-of-pearl . |
| 57 | He started then with the money , because he had the giro , so I was getting into a mess again , was n't I. So for a couple of weeks we were paid separately . |
| 58 | Unaware of Harry 's plans for her , Alice was getting into a taxi with Jules , who , after a long , tiring day getting things straight at the salon , had decided they both deserved a really good meal . |
| 59 | ‘ I admit I was getting into a state . |
| 60 | Even the dogs would be hushed as she told the story of the highwayman who came riding , riding by , or the shipwrecked sailor lost in a terrible storm , or the faithful lady who died by the gun to warn her lover that he was riding into a Roundhead trap . |