Example sentences of "when [pron] [verb] [pn reflx] into [art] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | When she lowered herself into the chair , there was a loud squelching noise similar to that made by a hippopotamus when lowering its foot into the mud on the banks of the Limpopo River . |
3 | It drove him mad when she turned herself into a sphinx as a ruse to avoid facing the truth . |
4 | When she let herself into the flat , Ralph was waiting in the hall . |
5 | When they launched themselves into the dusk they seemed to fill the sky to the north for long minutes , and their cries reached as far as the village . |
6 | When they launch themselves into the air they suddenly straighten their bodies and hollow out their lower surfaces . |
7 | Young albatrosses on the Leeward Islands spend many days flapping their wings to exercise their muscles and develop their strength , but when they launch themselves into the air , they have to get it right first time . |
8 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
9 | His mother was watching the weather forecast on television when he let himself into the house . |