Example sentences of "[verb] [pn reflx] into the [adj] " 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 | Aided by her publicity adviser , Sir Gordon Reece , the mousy frump in sensible shoes and off-the-peg clothing transformed herself into the glamorous power-dresser , with coiffed blonde hair and capped teeth , who led President Mitterrand to slaver , ‘ She has the eyes of Caligula and the mouth of Marilyn Monroe . ’ |
| 3 | She drew back , pressing herself into the upholstered chair , and surreptitiously studied him in the gilt mirror opposite . |
| 4 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 5 | Eliot had arranged with me beforehand that we should have a private meeting , and meanwhile I sank myself into the communal life of the place . |
| 6 | After a moment 's hesitation she sat in one of the large armchairs , half expecting to be pushed on to the settee , but he allowed her to sit alone , only raising an eyebrow as he lowered himself into the matching chair . |
| 7 | There he flung himself into the local setting with characteristic abandon and commitment , participating in the daily round of village life with an eagerness and zest which he attributed partly to his Polish temperament ; there he established standards of meticulous and painstaking observation and inquiry which have been an inspiration to social anthropologists ever since . |
| 8 | An audience never failed to gasp and cry out when Gabriel flung himself into the flying harness , arms outstretched and billowing with silk . |
| 9 | I thought it was a good analogy to how Manson had affected the country , how he had really wedged himself into the American family to the extent that he 's now on the country 's most popular TV show . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In fact , she thought , as she made her way through a section of the shop-floor and let herself into the occupational health centre , she did n't even know his name . |
| 12 | Left alone , Meredith ignored her shaking legs and managed to strip off and ease herself into the heavy waist petticoats from beside the chest . |
| 13 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 14 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |
| 15 | About two-thirds of all temporary workers put themselves into the seasonal , temporary or casual category , though the proportion was much higher amongst those in lower level occupations and much lower amongst those in more skilled , and particularly in " professional " occupations [ see Table 2.4 ] . |
| 16 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 17 | ‘ Unless you wish to initiate yourself into the ultimate joys of sex right now , be still . |
| 18 | The truth is that the social sciences reflected the pre-conceptions and problems of bourgeois liberalism in its classic form , which was not found in Germany , where bourgeois society inserted itself into the Bismarckian framework of aristocrats and bureaucrats . |
| 19 | So it 's re-inserted itself into the real world , you could say . |
| 20 | Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic . |
| 21 | Quinn will work himself into the right mood for the game by listening to tapes of his favourite Beatles music beforehand — not that he needs too much extra motivation . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He made a dash for the big front door and threw himself into the gloomy chill of the hall . |
| 24 | As the god made no response Aenarion kept his promise and threw himself into the raging , white-hot inferno . |
| 25 | Winton duly threw himself into the muddled affairs of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia , a group of diverse personalities whose good intentions far outstretched their capacity to offer constructive help . |
| 26 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 27 | He bought the old Cherton Manor about a year ago and has set about turning himself into the local squire . ’ |
| 28 | The TPLF has recently transformed itself into the Ethiopian People 's Revolutionary Democratic Movement to give itself more national credibility , but its core remains the Marxist-Leninist League of Tigray , whose political model seems closest to the late Enver Hoxha 's Albania . |
| 29 | WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket . |
| 30 | She threw herself into the literary and social life of Cambridge . |