Example sentences of "[vb past] [pn reflx] [adv prt] into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cornelius fanned at his trouser bottoms and slowly drew himself back into the vertical plane . |
| 2 | Cathy went into the shop and Wycliffe let himself out into the little hall from which stairs led up to the flat . |
| 3 | GEC , under the guidance of Lord Weinstock , built itself up into the largest manufacturing employer in the UK , producing a wide range of products from telecommunications to defence electronics . |
| 4 | Ashamed of her excess of imagination , she let herself out into the street and covered the few yards to her car under the trees . |
| 5 | As she let herself out into the garden through the kitchen door , she gave a small shiver that had absolutely nothing to do with the autumnal chill in the air . |
| 6 | Tom flung himself back into the chair beside her , still without speaking , and Belinda stood there while Faye gave her a watchful glance . |
| 7 | BILLIONAIRE Ross Perot last night threw himself back into the race to become US President . |
| 8 | However , there was a storming finish as Peterborough twice hauled themselves back into the match . |
| 9 | Martin pressed himself back into the burial plot , his fear of it temporarily forgotten in the face of this new terror . |
| 10 | A little round hill , a sort of headland , thrust itself out into the estuary slightly to her right , and beyond it , she thought she saw a great bay , a giant bite out of the smooth slope of grassy shore . |
| 11 | Ruth saw thrown spears hang in the air as if floating in water , and she thrust herself down into the grass , her face in her hands so as not to see any more . |
| 12 | The train pulled in at her station and Lee got herself out into the street , touching too many people , climbing ugly grey stairs , looking at posters advertising Tampax , warning about Aids , promising relief in the Bahamas , selling newspapers , selling theatre tickets , selling life , she thought , but it ca n't be bought , not really , it 's within . |
| 13 | He worked himself up into the kind of rage that leads to unforgivable things being said . |
| 14 | He hauled himself after her and Fenella gasped and half fell , half pulled herself over into the Robemaker 's wood-store , to be followed , a minute later , by a rather out-of-breath Caspar . |
| 15 | They gradually pulled themselves back into the game . |
| 16 | Filled with shock of a kind that had not been with him since the actor-manager 's first refusal , Paul took himself out into the snow . |
| 17 | In the winter of 1945–6 , when he took himself off into the mountains on spiritual retreat , he wrote to one of the United States Army 's cultural attachés with whom he later became great friends : |
| 18 | She stood up and thought herself back into the Mayor 's office . |
| 19 | 236 for 2 overnight became 296 for 7 next morning as England bowled themselves back into the game , but Lloyd and Garner put on 83 for the eighth wicket and then Holding and Croft an unbeaten 67 for the tenth as the bowlers tired , enabling Lloyd to declare on 468 . |
| 20 | Station Officer Alan Bridle , from Canning Place 's Green Watch , said : ‘ When we arrived I got up on to the roof and then lowered myself down into the centre . |
| 21 | In desperation , he gave one last , vicious backward kick and launched himself out into the dark . |
| 22 | Let it ring — what do I care ? thought Dyson , as he hurled himself out into the hall to catch it before it stopped ringing . |
| 23 | With her heart thumping so hard that her ears were deaf to any other sounds , Sarah hurled herself down into the dip . |