Example sentences of "threw [pn reflx] into the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a dash for the big front door and threw himself into the gloomy chill of the hall . |
| 2 | As the god made no response Aenarion kept his promise and threw himself into the raging , white-hot inferno . |
| 3 | Winton duly threw himself into the muddled affairs of the British Committee for Refugees from Czechoslovakia , a group of diverse personalities whose good intentions far outstretched their capacity to offer constructive help . |
| 4 | She threw herself into the literary and social life of Cambridge . |
| 5 | The Mensheviks threw themselves into the working-class trade unions and other organizations which sprang up , seeking the fusion of the Party and the rank-and-file proletariat . |
| 6 | Why the Romans threw themselves into the difficult business of absorbing the culture of one foreign nation just when they were involved in exhausting wars with another foreign nation , remains one of those puzzles which characterize nations in their most inscrutable and decisive hours . |
| 7 | 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 . |