Example sentences of "[verb] me into [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems at first quite astonishing to learn that neither the inventory in Jacques 's marriage contract nor that made after death provides any evidence that he was a flute-player or maker ; they seem to contradict the generally held view that he was a maker - a view which is supported by an entry in von Uffenbach 's diary which records a visit he paid Jacques in 1715 : ‘ He [ Jacques ] led me into a tidy room and showed me there many beautiful transverse flutes that he himself makes and from which he wishes to gain special profit . ’ |
| 2 | She returned a few minutes later and somewhat grudgingly led me into a little room at the back . |
| 3 | I waited in the office for an hour before she led me into a darkened side ward . |
| 4 | The proprietor led me into the windowless gloom . |
| 5 | She led me into the front room where , defensively , she picked up the baby . |
| 6 | It was nearly forty years later that I met the man who had carried me into the only half track we had left and who reassured me . |
| 7 | Lucky for me that I got out before you could entice me into the ultimate folly of going to bed with you . ’ |
| 8 | Throughout the whole ghastly hour , I thought with gratitude of the boring school routines and the strict schoolmasters who have made me into the psychological oddity which I am today . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's what I 've wanted to do for a long time , so long that I ca n't remember a time when the name Tony Radcliffe did n't send me into a violent rage ! ’ |
| 10 | The minister was told plainly that ‘ the election of a member of parliament , and other publick services , has drawn me into a great deall of expence , and no small trouble … ’ |
| 11 | Now you 'd better start turning me into a space-station commander . ’ |
| 12 | She 's turning me into a wild animal . |
| 13 | If a week of being looked after had gone such a fair way to turning me into a drivelling weakling , it was just as well I had n't let Dottie tempt me to any more of it . |
| 14 | Do n't miss out the l or you 'll start turning me into a Parisian grocer . |
| 15 | A Reception lady showed me into a tiny broadcasting room full of switched-off microphones . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , come inside and have a cup of tea , ’ she said , and showed me into the front room of the house . |
| 17 | The Maggot now ordered me into the right-hand pilot 's seat and told me to keep my thieving hands off his knobs . |
| 18 | I ca n't sleep at night for that baby crying , I ca n't breathe in the daytime for that stench of tallow coming out of their back door — and one of his customers brushed me into the dusty street the other day … |
| 19 | I thought he would slide me into the strait-jacket right away . |
| 20 | He pulled me into the tiny kitchen . |
| 21 | The implied judgement on me , Vicky 's notional partner , should have been enough to send me into a screaming spiral of paranoid depression . |
| 22 | ‘ Right , ’ she said , towing me into the tall bracken . |
| 23 | I refused to have a mastectomy and I see now in terms of theory , that I was stagemanaged at various points on the production line , into trying to turn me into a well-behaved patient by traumatising me by saying ‘ If you do n't do what we tell you … ’ or ‘ You 're being very naughty ’ or ‘ You 're being hysterical ’ , or ‘ We have n't got time to deal with all these questions , we 'd never get round ’ , and so on . |
| 24 | Invade my space , compact my disc , shrink my knob and turn me into a blue hedgity-hog . |
| 25 | As for the merits of the original illustrations as works of art , to my own taste at least the first impressions were of a certain period quality — with Wade 's occasional curvaceous nudes and sports car profiles intruded into the abstract geometries bringing memories of Victor Vasarely 's more lamentable lapses into commercial vulgarity , In the end , however , Wade 's sheer enthusiasm and invention persuaded me into a renewed fascination . |
| 26 | The social pressures of my peers precipitated me into a frenzied bout of heterosexuality , usually accompanied by drunkenness . |
| 27 | What sent me into a fear-filled frenzy was the news — hidden somewhere between a report on the seasonal suicide rate and an article on bogus Santas — that I had bought a ride-on fire engine for my baby son that had a dangerous fault and should be returned to the manufacturers immediately . |
| 28 | When I tried to lead her indoors she became indignant , shaking me off , ‘ Do you call yourself my niece , trying to get me into a burning house ! ’ and it took me some time to persuade her that all was well . |
| 29 | There were lots of young people working there whose main ambition was to get me into a good home . |
| 30 | I climbed into my paper nightie and was helped on to a narrow trolley by a second Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll ( but punctured ) , then gazed adoringly up the nose of a Greek god as he wheeled me into an open lift and down to the basement operating theatre to a waiting : ‘ Hi , I 'm Andy , your anaesthesiologist . ’ |