Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] themselves into " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The players have to be prepared to put themselves into dangerous positions , to go in for a hard tackle , be brave and take the blows . |
| 2 | Whether the Russian landed aristocracy , landowners like Tolstoi 's Count Rostov or Chekhov 's Mme Ranevskaya , were more or less likely to transform themselves into agrarian capitalist entrepreneurs than ante-bellum plantation owners , dreaming of Walter Scott , is quite another question . |
| 3 | For instance , his remarks in the ‘ Eighteenth Brumaire ’ and in correspondence with Weydemeyer , relating the ‘ immaturity ’ of the American working-class movement in the mid 19th century to the ‘ flux and interchange ’ whereby American proletarians were able to convert themselves into independent self-sustaining peasants . |
| 4 | Apart from the distinctions they make in terms of membership in particular local communities , however , Shetlanders are reluctant to categorise themselves into different types of Shetlander . |
| 5 | In these circumstances , the tensions apparent within the philosophies of life available in the nineteenth century were able to perpetuate themselves into the twentieth . |
| 6 | Analysis of these projects suggested that if such control were to be achieved , local people would have to acquire the motivation and skills to be able to organize themselves into effective action groups able to negotiate with public authorities . |
| 7 | This is due largely to the fact that doctors were able to organize themselves into a professional group before the state intervened in medicine and became a major employer of medical practitioners . |
| 8 | It would be unfair to say that the landscape was featureless geology has provided some outstanding , literally outstanding , items of topography , yet they are far flung and , in general , the landscape components are not keen to assemble themselves into the kind of artistic compositions we have grown used to . |
| 9 | When they hear a battle is brewing they flock to the battle site , ready to cast themselves into what they regard as the final hopeless battle between good and evil . |