Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] myself into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pinning the laminate onto my dress , I launch myself into the throng . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | So the ones I definitely know I 'm going to get appointments with , if I go and do that , I put myself into a comfort zone do n't I ? |
| 4 | I let myself into the cellar , locked the door behind me . |
| 5 | I hauled myself into a sitting position and peered about with my one eye . |
| 6 | For the next few years I threw myself into a whirlwind of activities — involving myself in a Women 's Aid refuge , women 's centres , campaigns , demonstrations and conferences . |
| 7 | I threw myself into the ditch as two further explosions occurred , this time at the crossroads just ahead of the jeep . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Alter that night I threw myself into the struggle on Mrs Rumney 's behalf . |
| 10 | Indeed , it was at this time that , ironically , I turned myself into a genuine adept of the Magus of the Quotidian . |
| 11 | I folded myself into a police car , dragging Susan after me . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I lower myself into a contained eddy of water and lean back against a seat of rounded stone . |
| 14 | I lower myself into a firewood chair , placing the legs carefully on solid planks of floorboard . |
| 15 | I lower myself into the chair , keeping as far away as possible . |
| 16 | Back at the Alte Post , I settled myself into an archway fringed with lilac blossom . |
| 17 | Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |