Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him into [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
2 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
3 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
4 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
5 | The President called him into the room . |
6 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
7 | Molly followed him into the room , struck a match and lit the oil lamp . |
8 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |
9 | In October of that year the King came to Compiègne as the guest of the Emperor and Empress , who both deployed all their charms in an attempt to woo him into a declaration of support for France . |
10 | Nothing seemed to exist outside that swaying chair and Simon , whose terrifying ability to repress his own humanity made him into an enemy that Gazzer did n't know how to defeat . |
11 | Her vacuum cleaner drove him into the street , in search of a coffee shop . |
12 | The full-back appeared in Aberdeen 's penalty area and determination carried him into a spot where he could see the right-hand corner of Snelders 's goal , sending the ball there with all the assurance that had characterised Clydebank 's return from the brink . |
13 | Beattie invited him into the living room . |
14 | He released the clutch as the thunder broke upon him : the power of its sound smashed him into the saddle as he zig-zagged fast across the smooth grass towards the cabin . |
15 | Turning on him , Headstone drags him into the weir where they both drown ( OMF passim ) . |
16 | Doyle thrust him into the attic and locked the door , not bothering to stay and guard him . |
17 | The gods turned him into the flower that bears his name . |
18 | A year later , Margarete followed him into the darkness of Stalin 's police underworld , but after a time in a Siberian camp had the honour of forming part of a present from Stalin to Hitler , being one of several hundred German political prisoners ‘ of interest ’ handed over to the Gestapo near Brest-Litovsk in 1940 after the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact . |
19 | He pushed open the door and allowed Catherine to precede him into the studio . |
20 | Jed followed him into the kitchen . |
21 | Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ? |
22 | The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in . |
23 | National Service sent him into the Army , as he has described in Not all a Ball , and it was then , whilst on leave , that Minton 's ‘ irresistible , magical aura of ebullience and joie de vivre ’ offered such a liberating contrast with the high-pitched orders of NCOs and the brutalising routine of Army life . |
24 | Fleeing the slaughter , he hid himself in Hamilton Kirk where : ‘ A number of other fugitives following him into the church were pursued by the dragoons , who , regardless of their cries for mercy , butchered them in the sacred place . ’ |
25 | He gestured for Ballater to follow him into the living-room and indicated the chair by the empty fireplace . |
26 | Well what responsibility does the church have for down and outs and should the vicar try to get rid of this man in the churchyard , or should the vicar invite him into the vicarage . |
27 | Five years before , Fisher drew him into the argument . |
28 | Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way . |
29 | Corbett walked and argued with himself until the bells tolling for Compline brought him into the Abbey church with its lofty roof , pointed arches and round drum-like columns . |
30 | The sudden movement brought him into the path of a mourner , whose elbow struck him a glancing blow and sent him reeling . |