Example sentences of "[v-ing] himself into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now he was naked too beside her and making pantomime bows to his guests before launching himself into the night . |
| 2 | The fourth man had abandoned their horses to his wounded companion and was launching himself into the fray . |
| 3 | How could he explain that only by emptying himself into a woman was there any relief ? |
| 4 | When his father was absent , he would come here himself and stand beside the pool , staring down into the water as if emptying himself into its depths , letting his thoughts become the fish , drifting , gliding slowly , almost listlessly in the water , then rising swiftly to breach the surface , imbued with sudden purpose . |
| 5 | Forster took up a position with his back to the bows , wedging himself into a corner as Delaney tried the ship 's telephone again , speaking slowly and deliberately . |
| 6 | Only towards Pen had she let her guard slip and that was because he himself claimed her as his own , rushing into his mother 's bedroom and hurling himself into Wilson 's arms . |
| 7 | Tucking himself into a ball of boots and flak jacket , the Squat bounced and rolled half a dozen times . |
| 8 | He is easing himself into his part , into an American voice . |
| 9 | He smiled , holding the hollowed column lovingly between his hands and smoothing his fingers over the spiralling pattern of the wu-tu , the ‘ five noxious creatures ’ — toad , scorpion , snake , centipede and gecko — then drew it on , easing himself into its oiled soft-leather innards and fastening its leather straps about his waist . |
| 10 | It was reminiscent of one of those terrifying cases in which a hospital porter appears in court after donning a white coat , insinuating himself into the operating theatre , and setting to work on an appendix . |
| 11 | She resented the way in which he seemed to be taking over , insinuating himself into the family as cunningly as he once had in Oxford . |
| 12 | The clothes had been left on the heated towel rack in the bathroom , which had taken some of the chill off them , but insinuating himself into their dampness was almost enough to make him retract his jibe , and wear the absent lover 's clothes . |
| 13 | Now , Armani is Italy 's new Great Dictator but his genius is that , having handed down his basic dictate — that both women and men look their best in unstructured tailoring applied to traditional menswear fabrics — he has succeeded in turning himself into the Great Listener . |
| 14 | He bought the old Cherton Manor about a year ago and has set about turning himself into the local squire . ’ |
| 15 | Wessels overcame his country 's sporting isolation in the 80s by turning himself into cricket 's most infamous mercenary . |
| 16 | In conversations snatched in the backs of taxis between meetings , and in office anterooms , Branson spoke about the process of turning himself into a public figure if the airline were to succeed , fully aware of the consequences . |
| 17 | In the period of his presidency Louis Napoleon 's principal concern was to maximize his domestic authority in order to prepare the ground for turning himself into Napoleon III . |
| 18 | CHESTER 'S former town crier was continuing his recovery in hospital yesterday after turning himself into a human fireball last week . |
| 19 | Now Taylor is looking forward to forcing himself into the England pace attack alongside the likes of Chris Lewis , Devon Malcolm and Phil DeFreitas . |
| 20 | He had no intention of getting himself into a stew about that . |
| 21 | George 's patience is probably what keeps Lennie from really getting himself into trouble , all the time and it is patience that has kept Lennie alive so long . |
| 22 | He had been the clever , handsome , ambitious boy from a lower-middle-class home , likeable , amusing , buying himself into the company he wanted by looks and wit , clever at concealing the itch of ambition . |
| 23 | He hit the deck , moulding himself into the shadow as a matter of conditioned reflex . |
| 24 | But the others evidently had not , or Rufus had not , walking jauntily and with swinging stride across the tarmac , his stethoscope bobbing up and down , letting himself into the main hospital block , Shiva later saw , by a door marked ‘ Private ’ , which he slammed behind him with a fine disregard for the notices exhorting all to silence . |
| 25 | It felt strange to be letting himself into his own house again . |
| 26 | First a drive , he thought , headed anywhere , fooling himself into thinking he might simply keep going . |
| 27 | Swinging himself into the saddle , Guy turned Chalon 's head towards Winchester and began to consider the various means whereby he could ensure that Isabel belonged to him while he was giving her the time she needed . |
| 28 | Though Larry does not ultimately succeed in reintegrating himself into the world , his efforts to come to terms with the consequences of his experience in the death world of his hallucination indicate a potential mode of interpersonal relation that would provide the basis for a more ‘ sane ’ existence . |
| 29 | As I have shown above , there is a strong tendency in the organization to dismiss the social sciences , and it therefore seems fair to suggest that any police officer who elects to read for a degree in that discipline is knowingly placing himself into a position of outsider . |
| 30 | Many incidents and accidents are caused by lack of experience and the pilot unwittingly putting himself into situations beyond his capabilities . |