Example sentences of "[vb pp] him into [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1	It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness .
2	Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ?
3	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 .
4	The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity .
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	Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort .
8	But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch .
9	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 .
10	Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity .
11	For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley .
12	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 .
13	Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere .
14	Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position .

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