Example sentences of "itself into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snow has penetrated everywhere , hiding gloves and socks , filling boots , even packing five centimetres of itself into the stove . |
| 2 | You watch it peel itself into the sea . |
| 3 | The issue of Indian freedom thus resolved itself into the problem of how to fulfill the promise of independence in such a way that Britain 's position in the rest of Asia and in Africa was not weakened , but strengthened . |
| 4 | The closing of a station intangibly but significantly diminishes the spiritual life of a country and its people , for it brings down the curtain with devastating finality on a stage which has seen a thousand dramas , comic and tragic , played out and has mirrored the changing moods of the nation , has etched itself into the working lives of some , the emotional lives of others . |
| 5 | The Glen came down from their right turgid and fast , shut in by hills on either side , round the rim of the Cheviots and the great curving flank of Yeavering Bell , and across their front to empty itself into the Till . |
| 6 | Bond was a large , dusty tuffet of moss that calmly hoisted itself into the catbox one icy evening . |
| 7 | Saw the fine rainy air become solid and golden and red , form itself into the shape of a living and breathing woman . |
| 8 | A hand launching itself into the air |
| 9 | Between them was a tommy gun , discharging itself into the air . |
| 10 | And above their heads the monitors showed captions rolling , and the faint tinny music entwined itself into the noise , and the screens blacked . |
| 11 | The hoverspeeder , its motors still idling , was attempting to wedge itself into the hole in the wall which Daak must have made with the vehicle 's front thrusters . |
| 12 | Now that there is one , it 's a little late to get hysterical — better to accept the consolation that the animal has integrated itself into the landscape , almost as if a place was waiting for it . |
| 13 | That sense will in most cases resolve itself into the question of whether the comment was honestly made , which is no more than a defining characteristic of " fair comment " in the first place . |
| 14 | Then it formed itself into the semblance of a frown , the whole countenance becoming stern , implacable . |
| 15 | Anxiously , they waited as Delaney 's black figure lowered itself into the fog , and was lost , bit by bit , from view , suggesting a primordial creature descending into a tropical , mist-covered swamp . |
| 16 | BRITAIN 'S biotechnology company , Celltech , is making a pitch at a £2000 million market to pull itself into the black . |
| 17 | We do n't have to worry as much as we used to about its being misused by the party state apparatus for corrupt erm , then of course there 's , them , the , the , the problem of longer term aid , how we help the Soviet Union integrate itself into the world economy . |
| 18 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 19 | This state of mind will transmit itself into the drawing and so give it life . |
| 20 | Once the fungus has dug itself into the vagina , it is difficult to dislodge and the normal bacteria , particularly the lactobacillus , find it hard to reestablish themselves . |
| 21 | And that curtain went from the window right across the room and pinned itself into the piano , pinned the curtains into the piano . |
| 22 | The mind has the power of distending itself into the future by means of anticipation and the past by means of memory . |
| 23 | Utopia projected itself into the future instead . |
| 24 | Two small fists appeared gripping the far end of the long handle , and Sam Kettle 's grimy muzzle thrust itself into the room . |
| 25 | An approaching wooden wall resolved itself into the form of a small boat , in which Richmann sat , with another man using the oars to hold position . |
| 26 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |
| 27 | It was this dawning understanding , forcing itself into the consciousness of the developing human species which started to produce individuals who recognised that the enjoyment of life would be forever circumscribed if ways to mitigate the ruthlessness of the laws of evolution were not found . |
| 28 | It works itself into the mind |
| 29 | Taking British Rail itself into the VIP train market was an altogether different matter . |
| 30 | He thought later — ‘ When I could think , ’ he said — that it was as if the soul knew that it must surrender itself into the Lad 's hands , to do with as he wished . |