Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | She went to the window and watched him into the street , then into his car , then out of sight . |
| 3 | Wilkins began struggling with a constable and pushed him into a bush . |
| 4 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then they sealed the lid and threw him into the Nile . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Far along the bean-row , Hazel glimpsed Buckthorn 's back and followed him into the depths of the field . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She apologized for the muddle and ushered him into the living-room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then one of the men gave a shout , seized the boy by a leg and pulled him into the hall . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She invited him in , pulled at her hair , relocked the door and followed him into the living room . |
| 20 | Sometimes he 's so determined he 's not going to go that we have to forcibly put him out of the door and get him into the car and get him there somehow . |
| 21 | She prised her husband 's fingers from the edge of the door and pulled him into the hall . |
| 22 | She pushed her way through a high-spirited crowd who did n't seem to notice her rudeness and followed him into the kitchen . |
| 23 | It seemed a little drastic the way they frog-marched him through Casualty and tossed him into the street . |
| 24 | On an incline , all the pots and canisters and the huge stew cauldron would slide down the wagon and crowd him into a corner . |
| 25 | She took his hand and led him into the sitting room . |
| 26 | The tiny woman took Tuppe by the hand and led him into the darkness at the rear of the shop . |
| 27 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 28 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 29 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 30 | I clambered over the wall separating his garden from the orchard and followed him into the cottage . |