Example sentences of "[verb] themselves into [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A good many stars have booked themselves into clinics because of drink or drug addiction . |
| 2 | Along with marketing to attract more customers , the management changes throughout the sector have required that senior academics transform themselves into planners , seeking to attract money towards their work , rather than relying on the previous expectation that it would fall like manna from the principal 's office . |
| 3 | This research will focus on the process of professionalisation among lay practitioners in Britain , examining the ways in which they have organised themselves into associations , attempted to increase their security and status , defined and enforced standards of conduct and training , and ( in some cases ) sought recognition by the state . |
| 4 | Or how it feels ( if you are the challenger ) to learn that an even larger number of men and women have organised themselves into teams with the sole purpose of stopping you getting anywhere . |
| 5 | If you 're lucky enough to see one at all it will slither off to find a more peaceful rock to sleep under , and since as yet they have n't organised themselves into packs , roaming around looking for people to bite , we can safely say that there 's nothing you will encounter that threatens humans in any way . |
| 6 | As she looked at them squashing themselves into chairs bought for Weenie and Co. , she thought of a story from her French course . |
| 7 | From this point of view the professional-managerial class are likely to try to maintain their position by forming themselves into professions . |
| 8 | The Ancient Britons surged forward and began forming themselves into lines , Elinor in front as Boudicca in a pretend chariot and Otley as Venutius , the belligerent Brit , consort of our Brigantian Queen Cartimandua . |
| 9 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
| 10 | The emphasis is still on interests overtly organised in political action , and this occurs to the detriment of a sustained consideration of the implications of inaction , the problem of interests forming themselves into groups , and the whole context of politics and power . |
| 11 | The shops — those endless lines of shabby , plastic-fronted London shops , the paint peeling , the windows steamed up — finally reassembled themselves into council flats ; they disintegrated again and reappeared as boarded-up warehouses at Dalston Junction , weeds sprouting vigorously from cracks in the brickwork . |
| 12 | This notion of psychological self-help becomes the basis for their feminist politics ( 1979 : 136 ) , the means whereby individuals and collectives can insert themselves into gaps in existing power structures . |
| 13 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
| 14 | Moreover , people in personal crisis are not very effective at making their needs felt in socially acceptable ways ; they do not organize themselves into consumer pressure groups to demand a better deal , not at least until they are recovered from their own crisis . |
| 15 | Priests are using the mosque , synagogue , gurdwara , temple , and evangelical church to edge themselves into positions of political as well as spiritual leadership , defining the community 's agenda and power structure , and negotiating with the state for resources . |
| 16 | Waves organize themselves into trains so that , as one of their number expires , a memory of its strength is bequeathed to its successors , consolidating their length ( the distance between crests ) and speed and height . |
| 17 | Out of office for the first time since 1951 , the Conservatives threw themselves into policy making after the 1964 election defeat . |
| 18 | In England registry office weddings are for girls who have got themselves into trouble . |
| 19 | John le Grant 's powerful fingers dug themselves into Tobie 's arm . |
| 20 | In the area of social help and rehabilitation a variety of clubs can also help both the mentally handicapped and the mentally ill to make social contacts and gain the confidence to reintegrate themselves into society . |
| 21 | Frankie felt his face redden and his hands clench themselves into fists . |
| 22 | Whatever the cause , many institutes began to drop the word from their title , and turned themselves into clubs . |
| 23 | PUPILS are selling themselves into slavery this week in a bid to raise money for a worthy cause . |
| 24 | It will show that , while older people organized themselves into pressure groups and old age itself became an increasingly attractive political issue , ultimately the organizations representing pensioners found themselves powerless to combat the notion that enforced retirement should become the normal experience for older people . |
| 25 | Erm and he said that erm many people have peasant , these peasant associations er but peasants organized themselves into peasant associations erm and there are four grades of peasant associations as he sees them . |
| 26 | The contributors are not making the easy assumption that to validate their experience women do not have to put themselves into question ; on the contrary , it must be recognised that to be a feminist theorist may involve some painful and hard-won putting into question of the beliefs and commitments that are the point of departure . |
| 27 | The line operates every Tuesday and gets dozens of calls , because , despite the fact that there have been fewer home repossessions over the last few months , the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux say that more people are getting themselves into debt . |
| 28 | around or over the world in 30 days of driving … that 's the dream of two local motoring enthusiasts who are taking their old morgan car on the longest … the toughest rally of them all … they 've been getting themselves into gear in the Malverns and we 're off there to join them for our Friday feature |
| 29 | Dr Thaler thinks that it happens only in trained networks because , as a network learns , its elements organise themselves into colonies that respond specifically to different features of the environment . |
| 30 | In the end , the children get themselves into trouble with the police simply because they are bored . |