Example sentences of "myself into the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I threw myself into the ditch as two further explosions occurred , this time at the crossroads just ahead of the jeep . |
| 2 | Yet there are also brief moments of recovery , moments of gratified desire and a coming to life : ‘ on this abandoned divan , I shall inhale for a long while still the earthy , vegetal smell which the faun left behind ; then , in the morning , wakened at dawn , I shall fling myself into the delicious air ’ ( p. 104 ) . |
| 3 | The Clwydian Hills , rising to the south and cloaked in cloud , looked wonderfully alluring : so I threw myself into the long climb with far more vigour than I might have done normally . |
| 4 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
| 5 | My aim would be to fit myself into the game unobtrusively … |
| 6 | Anytime after nine o'clock on the Friday evening I would lock myself into the office with typewriter , plenty of paper and a full bottle of Teacher 's Highland Cream . |
| 7 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 8 | I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again . |
| 9 | I stopped going to parties , stopped drinking and threw myself into the regime of Ron 's hard training schedules . |
| 10 | I gave Becky to them and lowered myself into the water . |
| 11 | But if that was the case and doctors told me I would have to stop drinking , I 'd like to think I 'd be brave enough to drink myself into the grave . |
| 12 | With David 's help I unfurled my multi-coloured paraglider , donned a helmet and strapped myself into the simple harness . |
| 13 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 14 | I know , and the employer knows , that I have a role to play , and I want to learn the role as quickly as possible in order to reduce my uncertainty to certainty , and to merge myself into the rest of the cast of actors or members . |
| 15 | At the beginning I think I loved her ; I certainly poured vast amounts of myself into the relationship . |
| 16 | On holiday at my parents ' house in Wales , I locked myself into the ground floor bathroom and swore that one day I would be a paratrooper in the French Foreign Legion . |
| 17 | Victoria had accused me of trying to thrust myself into the action while pretending I want to live a quiet life . |
| 18 | I went up the stone steps into the street , and let myself into the house . |
| 19 | He did not , as I had feared , ask me to perform covert assassinations on his behalf and nor did he insist on my using my eidetic capabilities to project myself into the noumenal world that he inhabited with such terrifying ease . |
| 20 | I felt I was going mad last night , so I wrote and wrote and wrote myself into the other world . |
| 21 | I let myself into the cellar , locked the door behind me . |
| 22 | ‘ And I threw back the bedclothes before I had any more time to think about it and burst out of the bed ; threw myself into the middle of the bedroom , screaming and roaring and thrashing about . ’ |
| 23 | And it 's not fair to say it 's because of the beard because the beard 's not my fault , they just did n't shave in the jungle in whatever century it 's going to be when we get there and I know I grew it early but that 's the way I am , I like to start thinking myself into the part as soon as possible . |
| 24 | I was spitting with fear and frustration as I yanked on some clothes and flung myself into the control area . |
| 25 | And as , with the last of my strength , I launched myself into the air it came to me suddenly why I had dreamed about Blossom last night . |
| 26 | Alter that night I threw myself into the struggle on Mrs Rumney 's behalf . |
| 27 | I tried working myself into the ground , but I could be totally exhausted and still remember . |
| 28 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |
| 29 | I wanted to make certain I was leaving the jeep with Kaptan — I wanted to establish my connection with the family , give a hint of trouble I could solve ( without making it look like a threat ) , and put myself into the frame without a hint of asserting myself . |
| 30 | 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 . |