Example sentences of "was [v-ing] into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simmons was struggling into a black gown . |
| 2 | ON FRIDAY , November 22 , 1963 , I was tucking into a steak in the Bellevue Arms at Whitewell outside Belfast when the news that shocked the world came on the radio . |
| 3 | Betty was so low that she somehow contrived to hurt her finger quite badly with a clove that she was sticking into an onion . |
| 4 | The subject of rue Roland did not come up again in the course of the evening until Loretta was stepping into a taxi for Islington outside the restaurant . |
| 5 | He was fairly certain now that he was walking into a trap , and wished he 'd come armed . |
| 6 | I did n't realize that by keeping quiet I was walking into a trap . ’ |
| 7 | ’ He glanced over his shoulder to where Calatin was trumpeting into a red spotted handkerchief . |
| 8 | Biff was launching into a long , familiar complaint . |
| 9 | Howard League for Penal Reform director Frances Crook said Mr Clarke was launching into a ‘ profligate and irresponsible policy which will incite juvenile crime when damaged children emerge from his penal prep-schools ’ . |
| 10 | ( b ) That later on the same night , after Zaidie had reached home , the defendant had driven there with another man and confronted him with a gun and had said that he had come to move out Paulette. ( c ) That after that incident , but still in June 1986 , when Zaidie was driving into a friend 's house , the defendant drove up and , saying that he had heard that Zaidie had hit Paulette , again threatened to kill him if he touched her . |
| 11 | She was climbing into a car and the camera had obviously taken her unawares . |
| 12 | To these reluctant Dutchmen the invasion was a liberation , and even the weather matched their joy ; the sun was climbing into a cloudless sky and beginning to burn of the mist which still clung in the leafy valleys . |
| 13 | It would n't be long , thought Robert grimly , before she , too , was climbing into a large , black linen bag . |
| 14 | As the crowds at Tattenham Corner pushed under the rails to reach the stricken pair the race itself was developing into a barging match . |
| 15 | He felt that he was looking into a pool of dark , unfathomable water . |
| 16 | For a second she blacked out , not from pain but from the shock of it all , and when she opened her eyes she was looking into a sea of faces all staring down at her . |
| 17 | It was as if he was looking into a pinhole camera , as if the scene before him was a mirage . |
| 18 | but he sort of pooh-poohed it and sort of said well you know , we 're getting a bit to old for all this modern sophistication of computers and so on , well I said well quite frankly I am not totally in agreement with you , because as you probably know Clyde was looking into a program which will could alleviate a lot |
| 19 | ‘ All right over there ? ’ she called to Leon Kennedy who was peering into a dish , tilting it towards the light of a portrait above . |
| 20 | My father was peering into a glass , opaque with several strata of other people 's toothpaste . |
| 21 | To the shrine came a trickle of pilgrims , which by the eleventh and twelfth centuries was growing into a flood . |
| 22 | She was always in such a hurry , jumping out of bed and straight into her workaday clothes , that she had failed to take notice of the fact that she was growing into a very shapely young woman . |
| 23 | And Juliet 's theory was growing into a distinct possibility . |
| 24 | But as work on the first phase was completed , Britain was heading into a recession . |
| 25 | Dad 's forehead was crinkling into a frown . |
| 26 | I thought I was going into a different world when I entered Germany . |
| 27 | I was so excited that I forgot I was going into a cage with a wild bird . |
| 28 | ‘ Our people saw that the Sterling plant was quite different from other plants , ’ Anthony recalled , ‘ and it made them appreciate that because our product was going into a pharmaceutical process , quality is absolutely critical . ’ |
| 29 | The Roslavl' Party report for 15 March hinted at the reason for this order when it revealed that peasants were of the view that the volost' authorities were imbued with self-seeking ( shkurnichestvo ) ; Soviet Russia was turning into a ‘ purely bourgeois republic ’ . |
| 30 | When Maggie tried to tell Phoebe about her gruelling embarrassment Phoebe just laughed and told her she was turning into a bourgeois little creep and should perhaps be taking domestic science and dress-making . |