Example sentences of "[vb pp] himself into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 26 , then , young William Charles ( 'Call me Charles … ' ) had magically catapulted himself into the lower echelons of the Establishment — all achieved , we may suppose , with the help of a good head for business , a degree of energy and flamboyance and an ingratiating style with customers , especially ladies ? |
| 2 | But these activities occupied him , one may well think , because he could see he had painted himself into a corner : the purely literary reason for not finishing The Silmarillion is deducible not only from that work itself , but from almost the whole of Tolkien 's professional career . |
| 3 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 4 | I thought it was a good analogy to how Manson had affected the country , how he had really wedged himself into the American family to the extent that he 's now on the country 's most popular TV show . |
| 5 | He did n't know why he had come , hated himself for coming , but had by now tormented himself into a state of mind where he was deliberately looking for fresh spasms of anguish . |
| 6 | Luke could have done with more help , but Umberto had barricaded himself into the tack room with another bottle . |
| 7 | In about fourteen years , a younger son , with the inheritance equivalent to that of a major gentleman , had transformed himself into a grandee . |
| 8 | Blue raincoat buried himself into an article headlined ‘ Bliz Boffs Borscht Biz ’ and chewed on a toothpick . |
| 9 | Hope had talked himself into a state of indignation . |
| 10 | He has several times got himself into a position of strength in his battle with parliament , and bartered it away for short-term gains . |
| 11 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 12 | I could sense the Colonel had got himself into a capricious and dangerous mood . |
| 13 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 14 | BRIAN HALL : ‘ At that particular moment in time we have a manager that has got himself into the semi-final of the FA Cup , he 's got the opportunity of reaching Wembley , he 's had a difficult time in the League , it 's been a traumatic season okay , then he 's told he needs triple by-pass surgery at the age of 39 . |
| 15 | I remembered how once , when a tunnel had been successfully completed contrary to expectation , he had jockeyed himself into a position on the team which finally escaped although he had never done any of the work . |
| 16 | On a polyglot diet of great classics the bookworm might have gorged himself into a mere know-all , not into a writer capable of winning , and deserving , numerous prizes , including a Nobel . |
| 17 | ‘ It seems he 's elevated himself into the big league these past four years . |
| 18 | He had brooded himself into a black dwam , and when the door opened again he started violently and spilled the last of the milk on his legs . |
| 19 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 20 | At the moment of crisis , in the hand-to-hand fighting at the gates of Taillebourg when the decision could have gone either way , Richard had thrown himself into the thick of the melee . |
| 21 | Having worked himself into a highly nervous state , he clenched his fists against his sides , saying in a grating voice , ‘ My own father lacked the courage when it came right down to it … |
| 22 | He would get up and blunder about falling over shoes and unable to find his dressing gown , until at last the light had to be turned on to sort him out , and Chrissy had worked himself into a frenzy . |
| 23 | Johnson had steered himself into a position of strength from which to conduct his campaign in the election of 1964 . |
| 24 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 25 | I even saw one video of a council meeting where an irate councillor , having virtually dug himself into a trench in an attempt to protect his interests in the face of strategic questioning by the YCCC , actually lost his cool and demanded that an old man who was tape-recording the meeting should either stop recording or get out ! |
| 26 | ‘ Have a cushion behind your head , ’ said Dimity , when the rector had lowered himself into an armchair . |
| 27 | Joe had hitched himself into a sitting position against the bole of a tree , and as he wiped his face he answered , ‘ I 'm … |