Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [pn reflx] back into the " in BNC.

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1 The Cherry and Whites tried to pull themselves back into the game … they huffed and puffed but could n't blow the Scottish down … and defeat means the rugby world are wondering whether Gloucester are as strong as they were … club coach keith richardson knows the truth
2 She tried to think herself back into the part of Peter 's fiancée .
3 However , Liverpool began to pull themselves back into the game , and in the 68th minute Bobby Mimms had to push Ian Rush 's close-range header off the line .
4 That 's the only thing I use to think myself back into the past . ’
5 Nuadu could see that her fingers were gone now , and that she was trying to pull herself back into the heartwood , which would have been her dwelling and the place from which she drew sustenance and vitality , but the Robemaker made another of his sudden curt gestures and the slaves fell to their work again , sweat streaming from their half-clad bodies and Nuadu saw the heartwood splinter and fall apart .
6 He had squeezed himself back into the side-car with his long legs stretched flat along the floor of the rectangular alloy box .
7 He drank too much and was usually overweight but , to his credit , had dragged himself back into the top thirty on the circuit in the last couple of years .
8 Pascal 's target here is Descartes and , in trying to think oneself back into the overwhelming urgency of their debate , it has to be remembered that their lives were overshadowed by the struggles of the Counter-Reformation .
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