Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] themselves into " in BNC.
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1 | Frequently , they expressed a sympathy for guerrilla activities and direct action , without recognizing that successful guerrilla movements were either controlled by an organized and disciplined party ( as in China ) or turned themselves into a traditional type of party ( as in Cuba ) when it became necessary to consolidate their rule and implement their policies . |
2 | The few that remained squatted out in the open or tucked themselves into tiny holes , often with their hindquarters clearly visible . |
3 | They knew only two ways to make money out of territorial expansion : to find gold and silver , or to make themselves into landlords with plenty of tenants to cultivate their new estates . |
4 | They made shadowy forms that lowered themselves into seats , sat transfixed for a while and then rose and glided.away . |
5 | Many ex-professionals prefer to open pubs or manage Swindon Town rather than to ease themselves into retirement by playing non-League football . |
6 | In excessively crude shorthand : there are light-coloured rocks that form themselves into sharp peaks and very explosive volcanoes ( Mount St Helens , Krakatoa ) on the outside of the Line ; while there are dark-coloured rocks that give rise to rounded hills from which flow copious amounts of benign lavas ( Mauna Loa ) within it . |
7 | The public are respectfully informed , that the Committee appointed by the Odiham Agriculture Society to consider the best method of improving the Art commonly called Farriery , have , in pursuance of that design , and feeling themselves unable to act with due energy and effect in the capacity of a Committee , found it expedient to detach themselves from that respectable Society , and to erect themselves into the present form . |
8 | The Malleny Park side has yet to decide on its final line-up but will relish the opportunity to end the season in a flourish at home and push themselves into third position . |
9 | Pickets broke through the police lines and flung themselves into the road in an attempt to stop the vehicles . |
10 | It begins with a human circle , linked by the little fingers , swaying and chanting themselves into deep trance with the eyes closed . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Then , for the second time that evening , all three of them made their way to Puddephat 's window and let themselves into his rooms . |
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 | According to FMLN sources , the plan envisaged giving the guerrillas full administrative control over their zone in a " transitional period " , until peace talks produced a final accord which would allow them to disarm and convert themselves into a purely political movement . |
15 | Whatever the cause , many institutes began to drop the word from their title , and turned themselves into clubs . |
16 | Once again they turned their backs on the God who had brought them out of Egypt , and threw themselves into the arms of another . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | They find that the less stable isomers of the larger clusters , for example , heated by collisions with the inert gas , collapse and rearrange themselves into more stable fullerene shells . |
19 | That 's why they are determined to triumph on Tuesday and lift themselves into a respectable position in Group Three from which the favourites to qualify are Spain , Denmark and the Republic of Ireland . |
20 | Its talons whipped out and embedded themselves into the boy 's skull , using the emptied eye sockets as a means of entry and Nuadu , narrowing his eyes against the dimness , saw that the talons were in fact hollow tubes , thin transparent bones . |
21 | After I turned the engine off and opened the door , I found my legs had turned to blancmange and moulded themselves into a sitting position . |
22 | Then the little tailor and the little grey man uncorked the bottles and flasks and the liquids and smokes flowed sighing out of the necks of them , and formed themselves into men and women , butler and forester , cook and parlourmaid , all mightily bewildered to find themselves where they were . |
23 | In March 1836 a group of student members demanded that Vines be restored to the society , and formed themselves into a committee of management , upon which all the officers resigned . |
24 | Acknowledging their weaknesses and limitations to live up to the Christian ideals they realised the strength they would obtain from mutual help and formed themselves into Teams . |
25 | But the residents resisted and formed themselves into a community association and negotiated with the council to save their homes . |
26 | The latest crop of large men with large guns thundered into the studio and formed themselves into a chaotic firing squad . |
27 | Some of the most highly motivated individuals ( in a career sense ) begin life at the top of the working class and energize themselves into the middle classes . |
28 | They agree on a system of foraging and divide themselves into the groups they think important . |
29 | The four drove to Suez with the boats and some dummy limpet mines , infiltrated the heavily guarded dock area and launched themselves into the water . |
30 | Everyone got up on stage for the final encore and launched themselves into a shambolic but passionate rendering of ‘ Wild Thing ’ which involved a bit of hot action in the shape of LOX from Kingmaker snogging an alarmed PATRICK from the Kitchens during the chorus . |