Example sentences of "[verb] themselves into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
| 2 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
| 3 | These difficulties have resolved themselves into the question : is the comment " fair " , in the sense of being one which the commentator could honestly express , on the strength of such of his facts as can be proved to be true ? |
| 4 | That much accomplished , the yeast presumably could be spread over Seveso in Italy , Times Beach in Missouri , and other places where chlorinated aromatics such as TCDD have insinuated themselves into the environment . |
| 5 | The Cabinet met twice again before dinner time , and on each occasion moved themselves into a harder position . |
| 6 | The MEP , who rode on a motorcycle on an open road for the first time on Saturday , said he was very impressed by the way bikers had organised themselves into a Europe-wide movement . |
| 7 | Similarly , he feels that by offering it as a no-cost option , the company invalidates the criticism that users will tie themselves into a non-standard technology : since V.32terbo is downwardly compatible with V.32bis , he points out that users are not losing anything by giving themselves the option of faster transmission with V.32terbo . |
| 8 | Stormy , wet , windy , typical August weather , cormorants , wings flapping clockworklike against the force 5–6 wind , gulls gliding majestically , effortlessly over the wave tops , gannets swirling way up high before plummeting dramatically hurling themselves into the sea with terrific , surely painful splashes , then the puffins , taking off clumsily along the surface of the water , bouncing bomb style , crashing into successive wave crests in their attempts to stay clear of the bow , wildlife in abundance and this was only the view from the MacBraynes ferry ! |
| 9 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
| 10 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
| 11 | She began to get up but by now the man and the bear had moved themselves into the open area of the coach between the pairs of doors . |
| 12 | The McCullochs turned into their cottage with a brief good-night and Cameron , James , and Allan let themselves into the tall , silent house along the road . |
| 13 | They fell over each other to get to the door and tangled themselves into a knot of struggling limbs trying to get out of it . |
| 14 | This does not mean that they put themselves into the hands of an absolute authority . |
| 15 | About two-thirds of all temporary workers put themselves into the seasonal , temporary or casual category , though the proportion was much higher amongst those in lower level occupations and much lower amongst those in more skilled , and particularly in " professional " occupations [ see Table 2.4 ] . |
| 16 | It had long been understood that , while the refugee camps of the East Bank had remained pro-PLO ever since the events of 1970–1 , the wealthier Palestinians had incorporated themselves into the Jordanian establishment . |
| 17 | While the Greed Is Good League threatens to fall apart — and who cares ? — while England 's team is outplayed in Spain , cricket 's selectors drop David Gower and hurl themselves into a whirlpool of crazy contradictions . |
| 18 | Most remarkable of all , if you take two sponges and treat them both in this extreme way and then mix cells from the two , they will reconstitute themselves into a single mixed-parentage entity . |
| 19 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
| 20 | Music played softly in the background , haunting melodies of old Charles Trenet songs that soothed the senses , softening the harshness of chattering voices and the clinking of glass and crockery , insinuating themselves into the mind as stealthily as an incoming tide seeps into crevices between rocks . |
| 21 | Here are people who quite blatantly do n't give a f— for social pleasantries , leastways not when they can lock themselves into a groove and cunningly misplace the key . |
| 22 | They came with their ideals , found idyllic peace in the countryside , where a man could hardly fail to notice God in the quietness ; said their prayers in one of the fairest little parish churches in all the land ; reacted against , and then threw themselves into the orderliness of quasi-monastic life ; and studied what they wanted , and thought about truth . |
| 23 | Once again they turned their backs on the God who had brought them out of Egypt , and threw themselves into the arms of another . |
| 24 | At the end of one evening Francesco Panetta lost an ill-organised 10,000 metres and thousands of Italians mentally threw themselves into the Tiber . |
| 25 | Half running , half walking , they fled through the back garden , narrowly missing the Anderson , and threw themselves into the passage-way , the leaves swirling in after them . |
| 26 | They threw themselves into the celebrations , a temporary release from the daily routine , but the problems would still be there once the party was over . |
| 27 | Some mythic elements seem to be transformations of this cult practice , for example the episode where the young goddess Britomartis leaps into the sea to escape the clutches of Minos , or the contest at Aptera between Muses and Sirens which ended in the defeat of the Sirens , who then threw themselves into the sea . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Both she and Bernard were continually taken aback by the way their staff threw themselves into the Ashley enterprise — although they expected nothing less and , in different ways it was they who inspired their employees to rise above whatever talents they thought they could offer . |
| 30 | 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 . |