Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 2 | The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car . |
| 3 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 4 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 5 | His feelings were cleansed of the poisons of revenge , contempt , self-hatred , envy and avarice which had worked him into a hellish turbulence of vicious thoughts . |
| 6 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 7 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |