Example sentences of "[v-ing] themselves into " in BNC.
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1 | With their assistance , gears and warped carburettor components and portions of armour major and minor were assembling themselves into an enormous baroque weapon . |
2 | Bones fly up from the ground all around them , magically assembling themselves into the massive skeleton of some huge , dinosaur-like beast . |
3 | ‘ Rave Generator ’ -ish shards weaving themselves into what is fast becoming the UK house sound . |
4 | As she looked at them squashing themselves into chairs bought for Weenie and Co. , she thought of a story from her French course . |
5 | Stormy , wet , windy , typical August weather , cormorants , wings flapping clockworklike against the force 5–6 wind , gulls gliding majestically , effortlessly over the wave tops , gannets swirling way up high before plummeting dramatically hurling themselves into the sea with terrific , surely painful splashes , then the puffins , taking off clumsily along the surface of the water , bouncing bomb style , crashing into successive wave crests in their attempts to stay clear of the bow , wildlife in abundance and this was only the view from the MacBraynes ferry ! |
6 | The build up to the next Olympic games believe it or not is already underway … and our Friday Feature this week comes from Milton Keynes where Britain 's ice skaters have been launching themselves into the challenge of gold |
7 | The Ancient Britons surged forward and began forming themselves into lines , Elinor in front as Boudicca in a pretend chariot and Otley as Venutius , the belligerent Brit , consort of our Brigantian Queen Cartimandua . |
8 | Publications with similar aims are springing up in different countries , and indigenous people are forming themselves into groups to represent their needs and interests . |
9 | They appeared to apologize for their pitiable weaknesses , instead of forming themselves into a counter attack . |
10 | From this point of view the professional-managerial class are likely to try to maintain their position by forming themselves into professions . |
11 | The emphasis is still on interests overtly organised in political action , and this occurs to the detriment of a sustained consideration of the implications of inaction , the problem of interests forming themselves into groups , and the whole context of politics and power . |
12 | Increasingly they are grouping themselves into multiple retail chains , as can be seen from Table 11.10 . |
13 | She goes on to accuse him and the others of , as it were , defining themselves into respectability : ‘ They are not prepared to count as concept or understanding anything which does not involve speech . ’ |
14 | It begins with a human circle , linked by the little fingers , swaying and chanting themselves into deep trance with the eyes closed . |
15 | ON A London Saturday , an unknown and unsigned dance band called Motion Incorporated were supposedly playing second billing to My Jealous God , and ended up catapulting themselves into the crowd 's heart . |
16 | Music played softly in the background , haunting melodies of old Charles Trenet songs that soothed the senses , softening the harshness of chattering voices and the clinking of glass and crockery , insinuating themselves into the mind as stealthily as an incoming tide seeps into crevices between rocks . |
17 | Many Thais have no chance of turning themselves into anything but sweatshop labour . |
18 | The party bureaucrats were accused of turning themselves into a new bourgeoisie whose revolutionary spirit had given way to capitalist tendencies . |
19 | PUPILS are selling themselves into slavery this week in a bid to raise money for a worthy cause . |
20 | People even act as their own psychologists , splitting themselves into professional and client-subjects to do this . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | around or over the world in 30 days of driving … that 's the dream of two local motoring enthusiasts who are taking their old morgan car on the longest … the toughest rally of them all … they 've been getting themselves into gear in the Malverns and we 're off there to join them for our Friday feature |
23 | Slopes of sand had drifted up against their flanks , moulding themselves into the deep crevices . |
24 | And a much more substantial prospect is to be found in continental Europe , where the German worker is assiduously pricing himself out of the market — and far from the Ossies pricing themselves into jobs lost by the Wessies , the former East Germans are insisting on even more uneconomic wages in relation to their skills and capabilities . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | ‘ In the end , however , Torpedo stole the game from us despite my players running themselves into the ground . |
27 | As they passed Jess , flinging themselves into the Battle , she saw Garty Jenks among them . |
28 | They looked like sacrifices crushing themselves into the mouths of Moloch . |
29 | So how would the mere existence of Labour Party membership cards in the North prevent the electorate voting themselves into a United Ireland if they so desired ? |
30 | Now I 've got to sort out all the people who persist in putting themselves into the wrong bedrooms … ’ |