Example sentences of "[vb base] [pn reflx] into a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Using the cover of the bushes or whatever , I crouch as low as possible and manoeuvre myself into a position where I know I could cast to them , not forgetting to make a note of a landing site , for it is useless to hook a fish if you can not play it to the landing net . |
2 | Chris Wilkinson 's remarkable progress was curtailed in the quarter-finals by Chris Bailey who proceeded to displace last year 's circuit winner , the American Brian Joelson , in the semi-finals and ease himself into a confrontation with Bates the next day . |
3 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
4 | So the ones I definitely know I 'm going to get appointments with , if I go and do that , I put myself into a comfort zone do n't I ? |
5 | Now what I was thinking was erm you know , what I wondered was , shall we do er a circular game and , get yourselves into a circle quickly |
6 | I lower myself into a firewood chair , placing the legs carefully on solid planks of floorboard . |
7 | turn yourself into a monk |
8 | She felt Jackie Tiptoe 's breath on her cheek and heard his whisper , ‘ Do n't fight , do n't think , make yourself into a machine , it 's the only way . ’ |
9 | And as Laz reached the lift , this very same reader now observed the Repo Men form themselves into a firing line and cock their weapons noisily . |
10 | There , they presumably drink themselves into a stupor on black PVC bar stools before the coach comes and takes them somewhere even worse , like Aviemore . |
11 | How often d' you get the chance to watch the mindlessly rich eat and drink themselves into a stupor on behalf of Ethiopia ? ’ |