Example sentences of "[vb past] he into " in BNC.

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1 Beattie invited him into the living room .
2 I invited him into the house and there , in the bright light , I took a closer look at him .
3 He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm
4 Five years before , Fisher drew him into the argument .
5 Taking Mungo 's hand in hers , which was clawed with arthritis , she drew him into the house .
6 As the confused little boy eyed her warily , Kerry tenderly drew him into her arms and sobbed : ‘ I wish you were Ben .
7 The dynamic campaign then waged under his command during the late summer of 1936 drew him into the spotlight as Nationalist Spain 's most successful general .
8 In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] .
9 This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 .
10 Then a shapely arm followed , and then the hamadryad leaned right out and grasped the astonished wizard firmly and , with that vegetable strength that can send roots questing into rock , drew him into the tree .
11 The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words .
12 The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre .
13 Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest .
14 Another blow fractured his skull and almost buffeted him into unconsciousness .
15 She let him into the flat , where the television was on .
16 She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird .
17 When I helped him into bed he said , with some echo of his old authority , that nothing was to change while he was here ; that I was to go on with my work ; that he would teach me to play chess at last ; that he was absolutely thrilled to be out of hospital , and it would be a positive delight to look after himself .
18 Tom helped him into his pyjamas , carried him up the ladder on his back and put him to bed .
19 His bedclothes were changed and a nurse helped him into a theatre gown .
20 Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair .
21 ‘ I helped him into bed , and he was half asleep before his head touched the pillow . ’
22 Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water .
23 He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea .
24 A squall beat him into the bank .
25 It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick .
26 His position , both in the City and at the Tower , impelled him into political controversy , particularly during the exclusion crisis , when he was accused of suppressing information on the Popish Plot , and when his removal was demanded by the House of Lords and his conduct inquired into by the House of Commons .
27 I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant .
28 They bundled him into a car and drove him to a car park at the rear of Dysart Police Headquarters and afterwards to an isolated road .
29 He was about to bank the club 's money in London 's Old Kent Road when the men , claiming they had a gun , bundled him into his car and dumped him bound and gagged 20 miles away in Surrey .
30 They bundled him into a van , tied him up and threatened to douse him in petrol and set him on fire .
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