Example sentences of "[pn reflx] into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we did n't get the damage repaired , we could end up with a blind ship and fly ourselves into a black hole . |
| 2 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 3 | Inevitably , once we have established ourselves into a new way of eating , progress does seem a little slower . |
| 4 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 5 | ‘ We 've got ourselves into a great position , even over our closest rivals in fourth and fifth spot , ’ says Gunn , who is in his seventh season with Norwich . |
| 6 | We are in danger of talking ourselves into a deeper decline in which only the bad news is given attention . |
| 7 | ‘ We are talking ourselves into a fine slough ! |
| 8 | We 're in the Division there with them and we 've we 've got to try and win enough of them to get ourselves into a charging position . |
| 9 | Then we slipped into the kitchen , got up on the sink , and hauled ourselves into the little attic . |
| 10 | Without pausing to measure the distance , he launched himself into a desperate leap that carried him right across the opening . |
| 11 | Maybe lull himself into a little sleep . |
| 12 | I dismissed him as quickly as I could and later found that he had gone to drink himself into a drunken stupor . |
| 13 | Unhampered by a client 's needs , he threw himself into a legitimate extension of his pipe dream : the Dolls ' House became his home . |
| 14 | Its leader , a Colonel Seymour , was charged with committing common assault on Charles Eyres , the leader of the Croydon branch of the organization , after a dispute in which Eyres claimed that Seymour had misappropriated funds and altered the constitution to turn himself into a virtual dictator ; this led to Seymour drawing a sword and pointing an unlicensed gun at Eyres . |
| 15 | But his self-education had been very thorough , so that he turned himself into a good Latinist and a good Grecian also , as Pound in Confucius to Cummins acknowledged . |
| 16 | In this way by not acceding to anger and resentment , he has made himself into a better son . |
| 17 | He is living proof that an individual congressman with energy and knowledge can turn himself into a foreign-policy entrepreneur . |
| 18 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 19 | Alex worked himself into a crimson-faced rage and bit the curled corner of the carpet , whereupon Marie picked him up bodily and carried him out of the room . |
| 20 | Ortega 's defeat crushed a lot of left-wing supporters around the world , but it did not set back Gould , who immediately plunged himself into a new project . |
| 21 | On a polyglot diet of great classics the bookworm might have gorged himself into a mere know-all , not into a writer capable of winning , and deserving , numerous prizes , including a Nobel . |
| 22 | He was aware of the strong emotional needs people had for certainty and for a surrogate parental-authority figure , and he was always wary of the tendency among some to turn psychoanalysis into a religious system , and perhaps himself into a sacred authority . |
| 23 | He had brooded himself into a black dwam , and when the door opened again he started violently and spilled the last of the milk on his legs . |
| 24 | The 37-year-old man turned himself into a human fireball in front of estranged wife Brenda , 35 . |
| 25 | A MAN turned himself into a human fireball as a protest against Western inaction in Bosnia , an inquest heard yesterday . |
| 26 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 27 | CHESTER 'S ex-town crier yesterday turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 28 | FORMER town crier Mike Chittenden turned himself into a human fireball outside the office of his former girlfriend . |
| 29 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 30 | Ludens had , as he had told Franca , booked himself into a local pub , whose existence he had discovered by telephoning the village post office , and was quietly determined to remain there indefinitely . |