Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] him into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 2 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 3 | Normally this was Beth 's favourite time … when her son was lying sleepy in his bed and she would read him a story about creatures and little people ; gentle stories that soon sent him into a peaceful slumber . |
| 4 | To her relief , although it was very faint , she found a pulse , and quickly she loosened his tie , unbuttoned his shirt and somehow manoeuvred him into a better position , all the while talking to him , reassuring him , telling him he was safe . |
| 5 | And manager Ian Porterfield must decide how quickly to bring him into the first team , though it will be tough to drop Kevin Hitchcock . |
| 6 | An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people . |
| 7 | The question or why an accident occurred , when an investigator is in possession of all the information as to what occurred , inevitably brings him into the troubled waters of ‘ human factors ’ . |
| 8 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 9 | She sometimes lights him into a new kind of relationship . |