Example sentences of "are [v-ing] themselves into " in BNC.

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1 Increasingly they are grouping themselves into multiple retail chains , as can be seen from Table 11.10 .
2 Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests .
3 PUPILS are selling themselves into slavery this week in a bid to raise money for a worthy cause .
4 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 .
5 Campese , scorer of a record 51 Test tries , the most recent against Ireland last weekend , had second thoughts about taking his World Cup winners ' medal into retirement , despite his claim that rugby players are running themselves into the ground .
6 Elena Pinguli and Mentor Belalla , both 17 , are the first Albanians to be allowed to study abroad for 50 years and are throwing themselves into college life with typical Albanian verve .
7 They are in danger of becoming complacent now that we have reached welcome lower levels of inflation , and are lulling themselves into believing that the problem has been ’ licked ’ .
8 THE Friends of Thatcherism are working themselves into a fine old lather about the interview given by the Archbishop of Canterbury to the magazine Director .
9 Various bodies in Manufacturing Industry are working themselves into one of their regular lathers about the supposed low social esteem bestowed upon engineers and engineering .
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