Example sentences of "[pn reflx] into " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are talking ourselves into a fine slough ! |
| 2 | At the end of the underground man 's tirade ‘ generalhumans ’ appears as the notional creatures we are trying to turn ourselves into because ‘ we feel it 's too much of a burden to be men — men with real bodies , real blood of our own' . |
| 3 | Nothing really constructive got done there But it was where we first had a serious go at turning ourselves into a real band . |
| 4 | In spite of the fact that since the Clean Air Act of 1956 , pollution caused by smoke has been greatly reduced to the benefit of those who live in the cities , we must not fool ourselves into thinking that there is no longer any problem . |
| 5 | It looked as if we had painted ourselves into a corner and I was on the verge of giving up and going home when Jake trundled up with his totter 's cart and his little skewbald pony . |
| 6 | ‘ We talked ourselves into believing that those gaunt , tight-lipped men in caps and mufflers were round the corner and tailored our policy to match these imaginary conditions . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ We got ourselves into one of those silly situations , in the middle of 1883 , which meant there was no way for me to remain . |
| 8 | We got caught up in the keep-fit bandwagon in the mid 80s and got ourselves into shape . |
| 9 | In this case we must reconstitute ourselves into a court of appeal and go through all the evidence afresh . |
| 10 | For the rest of us , coming to terms with our grey hair and living with it may be a practical way of encouraging us to come to terms with our chronological age and of easing ourselves into a new age group . |
| 11 | It is a long-established custom to assume that the way to go about making a career is to fit ourselves into ready-made jobs . |
| 12 | To throw ourselves into those turbulent waters and then be unable to regain the punt would have put paid to any hope of rescuing Dennis . |
| 13 | Inevitably , once we have established ourselves into a new way of eating , progress does seem a little slower . |
| 14 | ‘ Then we got ourselves into a winning position only for carelessness to force us to go back to their place for a replay . ’ |
| 15 | The Enemy is upon us and we have no time to organise ourselves into battalions and ordered companies . |
| 16 | As regular , well-known members of the church it is difficult to put ourselves into the shoes of the first-time visitor . |
| 17 | We may even do this through becoming ill , working ourselves into the ground or suppressing our own needs in order to care for others . |
| 18 | ‘ Derrick and I went to Blackpool and booked ourselves into a hotel , ’ she recalls . |
| 19 | ‘ We have dug ourselves into a hole . |
| 20 | ‘ The important thing is to avoid the danger of talking ourselves into a sense of almost terminal gloom . |
| 21 | They tempt us to put ourselves into their skins and imagine what their lives are like . |
| 22 | In clarifying our confidence in another 's consciousness , human or non-human , it was seen to be an error of Griffin 's to pose the problem in terms of putting ourselves into another 's ‘ skin' or to experience their ‘ subjective feelings ’ ( 1984 : 1 , above ) . |
| 23 | We have got ourselves into a rut |
| 24 | This effectively means tying ourselves into the rigorous German system of controlling monetary policy and inflation which , in the postwar period , has meant that the Germans have enjoyed consistently lower interest rates that those prevailing in the UK . |
| 25 | But we are often faced with the experienced need to make ‘ sense ’ of our lives and our feelings and goals , to relate confused fragments of ourselves into something that seems more coherent and of which we feel more in control . |
| 26 | It is important that we continue to put ourselves into all sorts of learning situations so that we recognise what we need to do or stop doing with our pupils . |
| 27 | We have a wonderful capacity , some would say an over-developed capacity , to project ourselves into other beings . |
| 28 | shown ourselves into the river . |
| 29 | parenthood , for example yo before the capabilities of reproductive technology became available nobody sat down and questioned whether we had a right to have children or not , whether it was a responsibility , a right or whatever , I mean it 's it 's very ironic that we 've actually thrown ourselves into a realm where we have to consider all these fundamental things about human behaviour and human nature |
| 30 | To assess the extent of the problem and attempt to bring ourselves into line with the patient 's charter we conducted a simple audit of the delays in our practice . |