Example sentences of "and [vb past] themselves into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pickets broke through the police lines and flung themselves into the road in an attempt to stop the vehicles . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Whatever the cause , many institutes began to drop the word from their title , and turned themselves into clubs . |
| 4 | Once again they turned their backs on the God who had brought them out of Egypt , and threw themselves into the arms of another . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But the residents resisted and formed themselves into a community association and negotiated with the council to save their homes . |
| 11 | The latest crop of large men with large guns thundered into the studio and formed themselves into a chaotic firing squad . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |