Example sentences of "myself into the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lay rigid , willing myself into the exhausted stupor that I knew was there waiting to engulf me again . |
| 2 | I felt I was going mad last night , so I wrote and wrote and wrote myself into the other world . |
| 3 | With David 's help I unfurled my multi-coloured paraglider , donned a helmet and strapped myself into the simple harness . |
| 4 | I have to know everything and fling myself into the 3rd century . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If I 'd admitted to myself how I really felt about him I 'd have thrown myself into the whole thing , body and soul . |