Example sentences of "[pron] into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |
| 2 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 3 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 4 | Inevitably , once we have established ourselves into a new way of eating , progress does seem a little slower . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich . |
| 6 | ‘ We are talking ourselves into a fine slough ! |
| 7 | We 're in the Division there with them and we 've we 've got to try and win enough of them to get ourselves into a charging position . |
| 8 | You can not , for instance , turn someone into a surfing champion just because he 's at the seaside , but if it turns out that he has a genuine interest in fishing and some skills as a fisherman you can centre pictures and film on that . |
| 9 | Even if it is true that God has guided someone into a particular religion , there is no reason why the sociologist can not study the social processes involved in the person 's conversion ; and , conversely , even if it is not true that it was God who was responsible , that does not mean that the sociologist can not study the belief and the ( possibly very considerable ) consequences of that belief for the individual concerned and for society . |
| 10 | It is impossible to force or encourage someone into a different sexuality from that which pertains to them . ' |
| 11 | Without pausing to measure the distance , he launched himself into a desperate leap that carried him right across the opening . |
| 12 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 13 | Unhampered by a client 's needs , he threw himself into a legitimate extension of his pipe dream : the Dolls ' House became his home . |
| 14 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 15 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 16 | He is living proof that an individual congressman with energy and knowledge can turn himself into a foreign-policy entrepreneur . |
| 17 | He wanted to get out of the old activist scene and transform himself into a modern , successful businessman . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 20 | In less than three years after his demob from the self-indulgent pastures of the peacetime RAF , Richard Burton turned himself into a great young classical actor — the heir and very apparent to Gielgud and Olivier ; and Hollywood was on the line , fishing for a new star . |
| 21 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 22 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |
| 23 | On a polyglot diet of great classics the bookworm might have gorged himself into a mere know-all , not into a writer capable of winning , and deserving , numerous prizes , including a Nobel . |
| 24 | He was aware of the strong emotional needs people had for certainty and for a surrogate parental-authority figure , and he was always wary of the tendency among some to turn psychoanalysis into a religious system , and perhaps himself into a sacred authority . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | I could sense the Colonel had got himself into a capricious and dangerous mood . |
| 27 | The 37-year-old man turned himself into a human fireball in front of estranged wife Brenda , 35 . |
| 28 | A MAN turned himself into a human fireball as a protest against Western inaction in Bosnia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 29 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 30 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |