Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him into a [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 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 5 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 8 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |