Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] him into [art] [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 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 5 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 6 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 7 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 10 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |
| 11 | For the afternoon service at St John 's , it was Franklin who arrived late and found the door of the church locked , but he forced an entry , and in a rather childish fracas , " put his legs between [ Eyles " s ] legs , lifted him up " , and attempted to throw him into the next seat . |