Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 2 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 3 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 4 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 5 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 6 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 7 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 8 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 9 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 10 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 11 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 12 | His feelings were cleansed of the poisons of revenge , contempt , self-hatred , envy and avarice which had worked him into a hellish turbulence of vicious thoughts . |
| 13 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 14 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |
| 15 | Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid . |