Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [verb] [pron] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She could n't sleep , despite having walked herself into the ground that afternoon , among the sheep and the ferns and the wet grass . |
| 2 | A MOTHER accused of trying to turn herself into a human fireball because she had been rejected by the boss she loved , wept yesterday as a jury acquitted her of attempted arson . |
| 3 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 4 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 5 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |