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

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1 Craig Chalmers must continue to bring his backs into the game rather than kick away possession or run himself into the thickest traffic .
2 The public are respectfully informed , that the Committee appointed by the Odiham Agriculture Society to consider the best method of improving the Art commonly called Farriery , have , in pursuance of that design , and feeling themselves unable to act with due energy and effect in the capacity of a Committee , found it expedient to detach themselves from that respectable Society , and to erect themselves into the present form .
3 Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest .
4 In fact , she thought , as she made her way through a section of the shop-floor and let herself into the occupational health centre , she did n't even know his name .
5 Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic .
6 As the god made no response Aenarion kept his promise and threw himself into the raging , white-hot inferno .
7 He made a dash for the big front door and threw himself into the gloomy chill of the hall .
8 Harry withdrew inch by inch along the dim passageway to the end , where he could have the wall on two sides of him , and flattened himself into the last shallow embrasure , beneath the last curved corbel .
9 I have to know everything and fling myself into the 3rd century .
10 Prussia 's attempt in 1850 to capitalize on Austrian weakness and turn herself into the pre-eminent power in Germany came to nothing when the Austrians made plain that they had recovered their nerve and were prepared to go to war on the matter .
11 Some of the most highly motivated individuals ( in a career sense ) begin life at the top of the working class and energize themselves into the middle classes .
12 With David 's help I unfurled my multi-coloured paraglider , donned a helmet and strapped myself into the simple harness .
13 He stopped talking as Marshka entered and wheeled himself into the empty space at the table , at that end farthest , on the right-hand side , from the president .
14 I felt I was going mad last night , so I wrote and wrote and wrote myself into the other world .
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