Example sentences of "and [verb] myself into " in BNC.
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| 1 | I picked up my fur-lined leather jacket from the back of the chair and zipped myself into it . |
| 2 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 3 | I went back to Desmond and got myself into more trouble because as soon as I got out I wanted money . |
| 4 | I was spitting with fear and frustration as I yanked on some clothes and flung myself into the control area . |
| 5 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
| 6 | ‘ I turned round one day and admitted I had a problem and booked myself into a clinic . ’ |
| 7 | I went up the stone steps into the street , and let myself into the house . |
| 8 | I discovered that time was money and threw myself into cleaning offices , restaurants and hospitals . |
| 9 | I stopped going to parties , stopped drinking and threw myself into the regime of Ron 's hard training schedules . |
| 10 | Callowly , I was disgusted by all this ; I avoided my mother and threw myself into the job of telling lies for La Clava . |
| 11 | I ran forward and dashed myself into the water with a skimming dive . |
| 12 | I have to know everything and fling myself into the 3rd century . |
| 13 | I know , and the employer knows , that I have a role to play , and I want to learn the role as quickly as possible in order to reduce my uncertainty to certainty , and to merge myself into the rest of the cast of actors or members . |
| 14 | With David 's help I unfurled my multi-coloured paraglider , donned a helmet and strapped myself into the simple harness . |
| 15 | I went back to my office and shut myself into it for the last time . |
| 16 | I wanted to make certain I was leaving the jeep with Kaptan — I wanted to establish my connection with the family , give a hint of trouble I could solve ( without making it look like a threat ) , and put myself into the frame without a hint of asserting myself . |
| 17 | I felt I was going mad last night , so I wrote and wrote and wrote myself into the other world . |
| 18 | Each time I saw you coming dancing towards me along a sunny street , moving lightly on your toes like a boxer , with your slightly duck-toed run that I , a turned-out-toes walker , found so male and so sexy , my heart jumped in my throat and I wanted to run towards you and throw myself into your arms . |
| 19 | Why try and pressurize myself into losing it ? |