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

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1 Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row .
2 Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room .
3 The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature .
4 When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats .
5 Samuel Irving — ‘ Si ’ — Newhouse jr , second-generation New York billionaire , had long been known as a collector of modern American art , but his November 1988 purchase of Jasper John 's False Start propelled him into the public consciousness .
6 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 . ] .
7 Three victories took him into the overall lead with 97 points by Christmas .
8 And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time .
9 A steady rise up the legal ladder took him into the commercial law field and a range of broader experience as a member of both the Monopolies and Mergers Commission ( 1966 to 1969 ) and a legal member of the mental health tribunal for 22 years until 1982 .
10 Dougal followed him into the little garden .
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