Example sentences of "[vb -s] [pn reflx] into the " in BNC.
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1 | It was painful , beautiful and obscure , a not uncommon state of affairs when the creator also directs , gives a running commentary on the action and writes himself into the story at the end . |
2 | When she kisses him as a woman , he dies : she casts herself into the Fire , taking his body with her : and Holly seems to see her alive and radiant , a woman whose sins have been compounded . |
3 | In all this , remember that the phenotypic effects of a gene are the tools by which it levers itself into the next generation . |
4 | The old man replies kindly , but says there is no mention of salvation in the Good Book ‘ for any but the sinful sons of Adam ’ — at which the lady gives a cry of despair and hurls herself into the sea . |
5 | Caledor throws himself into the sea rather than be captured . |
6 | She begins to scream and , running to the edge of the battlements , throws herself into the precipice . |
7 | He just settles himself into the cushion of the rear seat and waits for me to speak . |
8 | The drawing suggests how the thinker moves himself into the mind of the other person to see how things look from that viewpoint . |
9 | He steers himself into the current of warm air rising above the chandelier , and is carried effortlessly upwards , past floors where people are sitting at little tables and eating ice-cream out of metal goblets . |
10 | Yet when Cornwall pronounces him the new Earl of Gloucester , and orders him to seek his father out , Edmund has yet another layer of pretence at hand : Edmund 's perversion of such words as ‘ nature ’ , ‘ loyalty ’ , and ‘ blood ’ is grimly evident to us , but not to Cornwall — who may not understand those terms , in any case — and who now puts himself into the position of an adopted father to Edmund : ‘ I will lay trust upon thee ; and thou shalt find a dearer father in my love ’ ( 24f . ) . |
11 | An oily film on top of her cafe au lait resolves itself into the faint image of a face . |
12 | Eventually a time of fish will be landed so the intricate work of life moves itself into the most unlikely corners of our power stations . |
13 | This means , in effect , that each Alu sequence that inserts itself into the chromosomes carries with it the means to get out again and reinsert itself somewhere else . |
14 | It works itself into the mind |