Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] themselves into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professional clubs formed themselves into limited liability companies not to speculate in the entertainment business but to make legally secure the cost of providing facilities . |
| 2 | When the fitness craze first took hold , both in Britain and in the United States , some people threw themselves into an orgy of aerobics , weight training or jogging with the result that quite a large number of them suffered injuries of one sort or another . |
| 3 | Because it is not possible for more than four people to share a freehold , the owners of each of the six units formed themselves into a management company in order to buy the building ; each became a director of the company and was given a 999-year lease of his or her dwelling . |
| 4 | I had expected that one or two of the fry might tentatively explore this new hiding place ; what in fact happened was that the ENTIRE brood crammed themselves into it within a minute of my putting it in the tank . |
| 5 | In the 1960s , in response to changes in social structure and expectations , and in the context of a party and interest-group world that would not embrace new interests and demands , large numbers of inner-city residents formed themselves into loose groups to press for changes in public policy and in the balance of the public-private provision of the basics for a decent life . |
| 6 | This is how these men make themselves into all those freak things where muscles bulge all over the place , they look as if they 're about to , I 'm not quite sure , they always remind of erm those balloons , you know , that pop off beach balls , they look a bit like that . |
| 7 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 8 | The Cabinet met twice again before dinner time , and on each occasion moved themselves into a harder position . |
| 9 | John le Grant 's powerful fingers dug themselves into Tobie 's arm . |
| 10 | Its aim was to create a community in which assistance could be given to Russia , Poland and the three former Soviet Baltic states to transform themselves into free-market societies . |
| 11 | " All communities divide themselves into the few and the many . |
| 12 | Many people launch themselves into their new plans with no preparation at all . |
| 13 | Wagnerian storm clouds gather doomily as millions of curious souls cram themselves into the multi-tiered arena of the High Court in downtown Afterlife City . |
| 14 | It had taken three days for the anarchy of two thousand Zaïrois to transform themselves into an organised travelling market . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Driving or walking around the sculpture will be like turning a model in space — the apparent contradictions transforming themselves into new realities . |
| 17 | About two-thirds of all temporary workers put themselves into the seasonal , temporary or casual category , though the proportion was much higher amongst those in lower level occupations and much lower amongst those in more skilled , and particularly in " professional " occupations [ see Table 2.4 ] . |
| 18 | Large successful corporations divide themselves into small companies and operating divisions . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Cases of suicide are well-documented , and there was at least one instance when several people barricaded themselves into a flat and refused to leave . |
| 21 | These terminal direct repeats are believed to be generated by the mechanism through which migrating transposons reinsert themselves into the chromosomal DNA . |
| 22 | My sharp teeth sink themselves into its nose . |
| 23 | During the same month the Young Republicans barricaded themselves into a house in Harvey Street to resist the eviction of a family that had been on the housing list for eighteen years . |
| 24 | Far out in the blue bay , a small figure was rowing a rubber dinghy , from which , at intervals , three other figures hurled themselves into the water . |
| 25 | In other words , women are being offered a considerable financial inducement to turn themselves into ‘ walking wombs ’ . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A little later when local people formed themselves into vigilantees and eventually into a battalion of the UDA , he was asked to take charge of the extensive social work sponsored by it in the district . |