Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pn reflx] into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 2 | She just looked up at him with bewildered eyes and he put her firmly away , turning to launch himself into the water . |
| 3 | It was silly to work himself into a state like this . |
| 4 | BRITAIN 'S biotechnology company , Celltech , is making a pitch at a £2000 million market to pull itself into the black . |
| 5 | ‘ Of course not , ’ Flavia said , trying to pull herself into the present . |
| 6 | She seemed about to launch herself into a speech but then thought better of it . |
| 7 | And you know very well that as soon as you start to launch yourself into the world of contracting by , by its very nature a contract a a automatically has loopholes in it , and the more you write in a contract the more loopholes you 've got . |
| 8 | But the purpose of making such an accusation is , if it is made defensively , to cement oneself into a position of self-righteous stasis , and not to bring about change . |
| 9 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 10 | When it came time to fling himself into the cradle of the flying harness , the back scenery was slippery with rain , and Gabriel 's bare feet slithered against the paint so that he plunged nose down , the harness slipped down to his hips , and he sawed to and fro , arms outstretched . |
| 11 | Totally blinded , his spectacles streaming with water as he bobbed up , he tried to float himself into the galley . |
| 12 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 13 | ‘ On the rare occasion he bothers to leave that damn hotel — sorry , but you know what I mean — he just wants to drink himself into a stupor . |
| 14 | Now , it was reaching out , spiralling its essence down towards the wormhole in the fabric of the Dark , ready to feed itself into the earthly plane , to become one with the Vessel . |
| 15 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 16 | ‘ Unless you wish to initiate yourself into the ultimate joys of sex right now , be still . |
| 17 | He needed , essentially , to become a Freeman of the City of London — and the most direct route for him , considering he had served no appropriate apprenticeship , was to buy himself into a livery company first . |
| 18 | He decided to use the letter ; the editor of his gossip column astutely elected to buy himself into the good graces of Buckingham Palace by informing their Press Secretary . |
| 19 | He was much the same height as Hotspur , and much the same build , though twenty years at least older , and a century more crafty , and there was always the curious suggestion about him that he was ready and waiting to fit himself into the void if ever Hotspur slipped out of being . |
| 20 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 21 | But there is no reason for Britain to differentiate herself into the sidelines . |
| 22 | The metaliterary component is not so much in the existence of characters who discourse on the state of the art , even obliquely , through the exploration of writing 's other — through non-writing or no-more-writing — as in the project of the central characters , which is an essentially dramatic one : that of trying to imagine themselves into the world of another . |
| 23 | My aim would be to fit myself into the game unobtrusively … |
| 24 | In his Russian heartland the democrats , repeating the mistakes of their predecessors before 1917 , have failed to organise themselves into a cohesive opposition . |
| 25 | Their demands are much like those of the ill-fated Democratic Platform — reformers who quit the party but failed to organise themselves into a workable opposition . |
| 26 | If you have a group of parents who want something particular from a school and are going to organise themselves into a group to pressurise that school , they 'll do it whether there 's a P T A there or not . |
| 27 | I prefer to arrive in New York at night , to lower myself into the city gradually , like getting into a bathful of very hot water . |
| 28 | As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor . |
| 29 | At the final moment he was forced to cast himself into the Realm of Chaos to avoid final and utter death . |
| 30 | However , the group managed to put itself into a position to take advantage of the surge in bookings which followed the ending of the Gulf war last year and the demise of International Leisure Group . |