Example sentences of "[modal v] [vb infin] [pn reflx] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | He should think himself into the position of the other person , whether in-house or customer , and try to anticipate his approach and reactions . |
| 2 | It was Sally 's dying wish that he should throw himself into his role as country copper Inspector Reg Wexford — and that he has done with a vengeance . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In this case we must reconstitute ourselves into a court of appeal and go through all the evidence afresh . |
| 5 | It was indeed a sad thing that in these days when the Church had enough enemies outside it should divide itself into hostile forces , because , he added aptly , forgetting the original subject of the quotation , a house divided against itself could not stand . |
| 6 | She must hone herself into the likeness of her beloved stiletto . |
| 7 | AT&T should split itself into two separate companies , one to manufacture equipment , the other to provide telephone calls . |
| 8 | ‘ We 'll let ourselves into the corridor from Puddephat 's rooms , ’ Geoffrey replied . |
| 9 | There 's no telling what kind of trouble you might get yourself into . |
| 10 | I 'll turn myself into a countrywoman yet . ’ |
| 11 | All were hollow , and with care , for there were protruding knots to buffet and bruise you , you could lower yourself into their embrace and experience the exquisite anxiety of claustrophobia and entrapment . |
| 12 | But there was a lot of stuff in there if you could fit yourself into the what they 'd got . |
| 13 | It always seemed miraculous that the Maggot could fit himself into a small aircraft , for John Maggovertski was a huge man : six foot five and well over two hundred pounds , and none of those pounds was fat . |
| 14 | Sometimes , when accused of eccentricity or indeed perversity of vision , she would claim that all knowledge must always be omnipresent in all things , and that one could startle oneself into seeing the whole by tweaking unexpectedly at a surprised comer of the great mantle . |
| 15 | Besides being the sun 's foster-mother , Mokosh could foretell the future , and she could change herself into any form she pleased , bird or fish or snake of the swamp . |
| 16 | In embarking on this journey , I 'd put myself into store again and set off ; like the other women I needed safety , I needed to be taken care of , to take care of myself and now to take care of this journey . |
| 17 | I could get myself into trouble with a colleague of yours in another town but er I am hopeful , so as I say , er on the seventeenth of January then we could be returning to the situation and I understand in nineteen seventy four when there was a sergeant and six constables here in until the demise of the Urban District Council when they were all moved to . |
| 18 | It does n't matter what you think , it 's what people round here think and I can tell you now that you could get yourself into serious trouble . ’ |
| 19 | Jackie Tiptoe could turn himself into a proper gent when it suited him . |
| 20 | Paul-Henri Spaak , back as premier of Belgium , suggested that since the EDC Assembly did not yet exist , the Assembly of the ECSC could turn itself into an ad hoc EDC body specifically to consider a more wide-ranging political cooperation . |
| 21 | It would be many more months till the carapace matured into full symbiotic harmony with his body — and of course his spirit must be tested and tempered in combat before sockets would be cut into the carapace , whereby he could plug himself into power armour in a full fusion of man and equipment . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 23 | By day Hayling would help organize the workers at Langley , and in the evenings he would throw himself into pressure-group work . |
| 24 | She would look all right and would throw herself into the dancing with undisciplined enthusiasm . |
| 25 | Whenever he spoke , it would compose itself into a ghoulish grin . |
| 26 | Anytime after nine o'clock on the Friday evening I would lock myself into the office with typewriter , plenty of paper and a full bottle of Teacher 's Highland Cream . |
| 27 | It may perhaps be objected that the distance may prevent the pupils of the Hospitals from attending the Lectures of the Veterinary Professor — I will first answer to that — that it would be dangerous for the progress of the Veterinary science to give them too free admission into the College — because it might give a disgust to the residing pupils from their application to the Veterinary Medicine and many of them would change their mind and apply themselves to the anatomy of the human body , thinking that it would be more honorable for them to cure the human species than Animals , this happened in France and the best Veterinary pupils are now Physicians and Surgeons to the human species — this prejudiced ideal would inculcate itself into the minds of young men , the more so as the Veterinary Science is still in its Infancy in this Country , and in an abject state , for this reason it would be equally dangerous to permit residing pupils to attend medical or anatomical lectures , of the human body , or to frequent Hospitals : Therefore a certain distance from the Town would be more useful than otherwise for the progress of the Veterinary Science . |
| 28 | Harvey , who had the reputation of a coureur , would run himself into more trouble if he were not careful . |
| 29 | She would let herself into the flat and be waiting for Rachaela behind her screen . |
| 30 | Finally , in desperation , Aenarion offered himself , saying he would cast himself into the sacred fire if Asuryan would only save his people . |