Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [pn reflx] into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
| 2 | I let myself into the cellar , locked the door behind me . |
| 3 | Alter that night I threw myself into the struggle on Mrs Rumney 's behalf . |
| 4 | I threw myself into the ditch as two further explosions occurred , this time at the crossroads just ahead of the jeep . |
| 5 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
| 6 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
| 7 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 8 | And as , with the last of my strength , I launched myself into the air it came to me suddenly why I had dreamed about Blossom last night . |
| 9 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
| 10 | ‘ You really are a darling Barney , ’ Julie laughed , as she lowered herself into the rear of the two individual cockpits and pulled the waterproof liner around her waist . |
| 11 | The girl was carrying a latchkey ; she let herself into the cabin . |
| 12 | She let herself into the kitchen , where young Joe Burns had asked about her . |
| 13 | She let herself into the kitchen and sank into a chair before the fire that urgently needed mending . |
| 14 | She let herself into the comfort and glow of the solar to hear her father 's querulous voice complaining , in terms in which surely he himself did not believe : ‘ My mind misdoubts me we have done wrong to have any part in this . |
| 15 | She let herself into the house , and made herself a cup of tea . |
| 16 | There was no one about when she let herself into the house , and thankfully she went quietly up to her room . |
| 17 | When she let herself into the flat , Ralph was waiting in the hall . |
| 18 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
| 19 | With a sigh , rather than a cry , she threw herself into the water and felt peace . |
| 20 | Happily there presented itself such a person in Jeffrey ( now deservedly Lord ) Sterling , who threw himself into the task with total dedication . |
| 21 | The bullets were no longer coming close , however , and by the time she pulled herself into the shadow of the side of the opening , they were chipping the rock several feet away . |
| 22 | From a cupboard , she took a large , brown , straw hat and a dark grey coat ; and after first pinning the hat on to her hair she shrugged herself into the coat . |
| 23 | ‘ I took her there for a last relaxing evening before we threw ourselves into the election campaign . |
| 24 | When they launch themselves into the air they suddenly straighten their bodies and hollow out their lower surfaces . |
| 25 | Young albatrosses on the Leeward Islands spend many days flapping their wings to exercise their muscles and develop their strength , but when they launch themselves into the air , they have to get it right first time . |
| 26 | Rather than have him insinuate himself into the building later and perhaps annoy her neighbours , she capitulated and invited him to the flat . |
| 27 | When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village . |
| 28 | They ran themselves into the ground , ran Chesterfield off the pitch , but they could n't get another goal . |
| 29 | As Winston Churchill was to write : ‘ Honour must ever be done to the Tsar and Russian nation for the noble ardour and loyalty with which they hurled themselves into the war . ’ |
| 30 | He looked to belong to a different generation from that of Dysart and Ockleton , his face flushed and lined beneath a mane of grey hair , his chest heaving desperately as he lowered himself into the wheelchair . |