Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] him into [art] " in BNC.

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1 Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard .
2 Then suddenly he thrust his head between his owner 's legs and hoisted him into the trough with a resounding splash !
3 She went to the window and watched him into the street , then into his car , then out of sight .
4 Two other watchers take hold of him , lift him up to remove his shoes and thrust him into the dance .
5 Wilkins began struggling with a constable and pushed him into a bush .
6 ( They pick up PROF ENO and throw him into the small drainage channel that runs alongside the playing field )
7 Six members of staff restrained Sigsworth and took him into a secure room where he was injected with a drug and the police were called .
8 Campion stabbed his finger twice , once at Carson , you , and then towards the road shoulder , over there , and then Sorvino put the Ford across the Mercedes ' bows and slowed him into the side of the road .
9 But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces .
10 He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room .
11 In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk .
12 I shall have to leave the world of concrete numerable objects and follow him into a world of imagination where numbers themselves have discernible characteristics , or may hide , waiting to be discovered .
13 It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help .
14 By the final scene , however , we infer his dislike of McKendrick from the fact that having seriously impinged on his negative face by placing Hollar 's thesis in his briefcase and putting him into a situation of considerable personal danger , he makes no apology for his action whatsoever .
15 His cheerful London accent seemed to bring her back down to earth , and she hurried to unlock the bolts and let him into the hallway .
16 Then they sealed the lid and threw him into the Nile .
17 Furious at the decision of young King David II to appoint Sir Alexander Ramsay rather than himself as sheriff of Teviotdale , Douglas captured Ramsay and threw him into the Hermitage dungeon .
18 He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday .
19 I often have to get up with Graham , carry him into the living room and nurse him into the living room and nurse him on the armchair .
20 ‘ We never got any recognition for it , but Vidal 's short , geometric look , which made his name and got him into the news , had never before been seen .
21 Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction .
22 Far along the bean-row , Hazel glimpsed Buckthorn 's back and followed him into the depths of the field .
23 For a time we fished quietly , and then I moved carefully behind Moely and knocked him into the water .
24 Possibly too he aspired to this final showdown with his father in order to needle Theo , penetrate his tidy exterior and force him into the open .
25 As we saw , the latter relation threatened to compromise the son 's masculinity and to force him into a passive , feminine relation to his mother which could result either in abject surrender , as in depression , or in defiant revolt , as in mania .
26 She apologized for the muddle and ushered him into the living-room .
27 Harry was enjoying himself : he had been drinking , and was in that pleasant state of semi-inebriation that softened his tongue and turned him into a quite amiable human being .
28 The victory , the 18th of Kite 's career , was worth $198,000 and lifted him into the top spot on this year 's US Tour money-winning list with $292,361 .
29 Then one of the men gave a shout , seized the boy by a leg and pulled him into the hall .
30 This time , as she held open the door and saw him into the car , she was unable to refrain from privately comparing his physical likeness to that of her own father .
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