Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] myself into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
| 2 | I got myself into trouble … |
| 3 | The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand . |
| 4 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 5 | So the ones I definitely know I 'm going to get appointments with , if I go and do that , I put myself into a comfort zone do n't I ? |
| 6 | I let myself into our corridor , soundlessly , and crept down the back stairs and out of the back door without hearing or seeing any member of the Home staff . |
| 7 | I let myself into the cellar , locked the door behind me . |
| 8 | It was a nice flat with a good view and as I let myself into Stuart Street , I wished I could remember how to find it again . |
| 9 | I hauled myself into a sitting position and peered about with my one eye . |
| 10 | I threw myself into the ditch as two further explosions occurred , this time at the crossroads just ahead of the jeep . |
| 11 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
| 12 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 13 | My girlfriend , after my eleven-month absence , had understandably left me , and it was in the company of my two still-faithful black cats that I threw myself into writing . |
| 14 | Alter that night I threw myself into the struggle on Mrs Rumney 's behalf . |
| 15 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |
| 16 | Indeed , it was at this time that , ironically , I turned myself into a genuine adept of the Magus of the Quotidian . |
| 17 | What have I got myself into , Bernice thought . |
| 18 | What had I got myself into ? |
| 19 | ‘ What have I got myself into ? ’ she wondered aloud . |
| 20 | I folded myself into a police car , dragging Susan after me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I dig myself into my sacrosanct shrine . |
| 23 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
| 24 | I lower myself into a contained eddy of water and lean back against a seat of rounded stone . |
| 25 | I lower myself into a firewood chair , placing the legs carefully on solid planks of floorboard . |
| 26 | Back at the Alte Post , I settled myself into an archway fringed with lilac blossom . |
| 27 | Bob Church , England 's Home International team manager who organised the event , said : ‘ I talked myself into it last year at the world championships in New Zealand . |
| 28 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 29 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 30 | But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also . |