Example sentences of "himself into [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lay there for several hours , sleeping fitfully , having occasional nightmares , trying to galvanise himself into getting up , and failing because of the absolute exhaustion that appeared to have gripped his limbs . |
| 2 | When Lord Hunter asked those officers who could have planted the incriminating pieces of paper in the pocket of Griffiths 's overcoat ( which he was n't wearing that night ) and all of them , as one would expect , denied it , he could then delude himself into believing that no planting had taken place . |
| 3 | First a drive , he thought , headed anywhere , fooling himself into thinking he might simply keep going . |
| 4 | That ingrained courage , the belief that he must continue to fight on — the ability to fool himself into thinking that he could fight on — was all that was left to Tubby , and Colonel Windsor realised that to take it away from him could precipitate the final breakdown . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm sure it was n't ; Garry is n't the brightest of men ; he 'd deceive himself into thinking I would n't try to trace him , and if it were n't for my sister I would n't bother ; the discrepancies in the accounts would be compensated for by his permanent absence from the firm . ’ |
| 6 | John-Augustus tried to josh himself into accepting that his own bout was no more than that . |
| 7 | No longer ‘ Mr Madonna ’ , he threw himself into filming Judgement in Berlin and Casualties of War . |
| 8 | Walsh , with Hayling fronting the show to add that important touch of Cambridge class , threw himself into raising the matching funding required by GLEB . |
| 9 | And around this wraith there gathered forces of darkness , Lee thought , as if a strongly penised Satan , black-bodied , black-blooded , black-souled , had disseminated himself into threatening clouds . |
| 10 | Whatever Albie got himself into seems to have caught the attention of a lot of people . |
| 11 | partly the causes were external — loss of friends , hosts of visitors — but partly temperamental : Tolkien could not ‘ discipline himself into adopting regular working methods ’ ( a fault of which he had been aware since the time of ‘ Leaf by Niggle ’ ) . |