Example sentences of "himself into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | To crush strikes and abandon political reform would be to throw himself into the arms of those groups wedded not just to authoritarian politics but to neo-Stalinist economic institutions and principles . |
| 2 | In Yohei 's case , this collapses into a craven botch — hilariously acted by Ryo Amamiya — in which he more or less accidentally dispatches his wife but ca n't bring himself to take the plunge and throw himself into the river as promised . |
| 3 | In the other match , Jonathan Speelman claimed a time-out , taking a break in order to think himself into the right frame of mind to fight his way back into the match . |
| 4 | He put himself into the hands of a psychiatrist who passed him to another psychiatrist , Leonard Browne . |
| 5 | At Liverpool he turned himself into the most powerful preacher in all England . |
| 6 | Within Spanish art itself , on the other hand , the line is almost too simple : Goya was intensely aware of Velázquez , Picasso of both , but for Gironella the problem is not just that Picasso could be seen to have inserted himself into the next place in the sequence but that as a Mexican an unequivocal position in any such art-historical lineage is utterly unattainable . |
| 7 | He threw himself into the exercises with a hind of despairing frenzy . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He kept up an unrelenting gentle moral pressure on his authors or collaborators , and as a commentator , like Tolkien he selflessly put much of himself into the work of others . |
| 10 | A chartered surveyor , he talked himself into the chairmanship of the Conservative backbench environment committee and in 1987 he tried to curb gazumping by a system of forfeits . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Let himself into the kiosk , did n't get any cash , so he did a bit of damage . |
| 13 | As their wooden seat rose , swaying to the top of the wheel , Gazzer edged his body away from Simon , squeezing himself into the comer . |
| 14 | The should of slow labouring footsteps could be heard moving along the first-floor landing as the boy threw himself into the kitchen and slammed the door behind him . |
| 15 | He made a dash for the big front door and threw himself into the gloomy chill of the hall . |
| 16 | It was reminiscent of one of those terrifying cases in which a hospital porter appears in court after donning a white coat , insinuating himself into the operating theatre , and setting to work on an appendix . |
| 17 | Trent passed it up along with his weightbelt , slipped off his flippers and mask , dropped them over the taffrail and pulled himself into the cockpit . |
| 18 | She had worked for Pringle 's for years , and Vic was heavily dependent on her know-how while he eased himself into the job . |
| 19 | He comically dismisses his attempts to project himself into the narrative future and finds that the past is rendered elusive by the distortions of the means he uses to recapture it . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Henry lowered himself into the driver 's seat and stood looking out at her for a moment . |
| 22 | Somehow or other , the vicar got off stage , and disappeared behind the altar , perhaps off to hurl himself into the flames that would shortly be consuming Donald . |
| 23 | ‘ He has got himself into the most God almighty muddle , ’ he said , adding almost hopelessly , ‘ he is not a worldly person . |
| 24 | Increasingly man is being urged to launch himself into the barely-explored regions of his innermost self in ‘ crafts ’ which are often unstable . |
| 25 | He can not manoeuvre himself into the correct position . |
| 26 | Rather as one might almost unconsciously adjust the position of a book to get the best light from a bedside lamp without ever really thinking of angles and directions , so must the tiger get himself into the most appropriate location vis-a-vis the three-dimensional world of scents known to both himself and his normal prey . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ This train , ’ he said , settling himself into the armchair and indicating the facilities for me , ‘ is a triumph of diplomacy , eh ? ’ |
| 29 | He hit the deck , moulding himself into the shadow as a matter of conditioned reflex . |
| 30 | Luke could have done with more help , but Umberto had barricaded himself into the tack room with another bottle . |