Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pn reflx] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 2 | He tried to think himself into a detective frame of mind . |
| 3 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 4 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 5 | He stopped to relieve himself into the roadside bushes and almost lost his balance as a car screeched round the corner in a clatter of gravel . |
| 6 | It was true of Eliot , as it was true of Dr Johnson , that he needed to read himself into a writing disposition ; and that is perhaps why some of his best essays were produced under the stimulus of a particular kind — a review-book or some text which would ‘ tie him down ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had sneaked himself into the crowd of humans as the huge woman had herded them over from the train . |
| 10 | He had got himself into a difficult position and had escaped with more luck than dignity . |
| 11 | 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 . |