Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] itself into the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 WORLD cricket has distilled itself into the English game : the World Cup is over , South Africa have played their first Test match against the West Indies and now the far flung stars of these international matches have flown in to fill the last few places in the carousel of English county cricket .
2 GROUPE BULL , the French computer company , has launched itself into the personal computer market with the $635m acquisition of Zenith Computer Group of the US , writes Mary Fagan .
3 Diane could n't deny his charm , even though she knew more about him than most ; he came over as something like a wind-up toy that was apt to go bashing itself into the nearest wall without guidance and protection .
4 Although it hardly featured in the Report , the nature of lending in Sri Lanka , and its consequences in the first part of the twentieth century had burnt itself into the collective consciousness of many and clearly influenced the Commission .
5 So it 's re-inserted itself into the real world , you could say .
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