Example sentences of "i [vb past] [pn reflx] into " in BNC.

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1 I got myself into trouble …
2 The first version there , is one that I did before I even looked at your , at at any of the homeworks , and I got myself into some awkwardness of trying to translate virtues , and ended up with beneficial properties , erm , which is hardly perhaps very idiomatic and the one underneath that is Jemma 's and the absent writer not that she could be embarrassed because she 's not here , erm , and she 's actually simplified more than I have , by half a line , you 'll understand .
3 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 .
4 I hauled myself into a sitting position and peered about with my one eye .
5 I threw myself into the ditch as two further explosions occurred , this time at the crossroads just ahead of the jeep .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 My girlfriend , after my eleven-month absence , had understandably left me , and it was in the company of my two still-faithful black cats that I threw myself into writing .
9 Alter that night I threw myself into the struggle on Mrs Rumney 's behalf .
10 Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity .
11 Indeed , it was at this time that , ironically , I turned myself into a genuine adept of the Magus of the Quotidian .
12 I folded myself into a police car , dragging Susan after me .
13 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 .
14 Back at the Alte Post , I settled myself into an archway fringed with lilac blossom .
15 Bob Church , England 's Home International team manager who organised the event , said : ‘ I talked myself into it last year at the world championships in New Zealand .
16 Usually it was late afternoon before I tossed myself into the near-coma from which Gwenellen had just woken me .
17 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 .
18 But it is not their wish that I put myself into their shoes , rather than living free and wishing that for them also .
19 Then I buttoned myself into my grey raincoat , put on my brown felt hat , switched off the office lights and made my way along the corridor to the lift .
20 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 .
21 I drank myself into oblivion .
22 Eventually , I contemplated myself into making a decision that would build another pond on part of my patio .
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