Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 2 | But after three disappointing Five Nations games , Ciaran Fitzgerald drafted him into the side — as well as making him captain — for the game in Paris . |
| 3 | His political inclinations got him into trouble again in 1940 , however . |
| 4 | For he was lost , in no one mind , in nothing but urgent , insistent needs — lusts lashing him into lunacy . |
| 5 | George Best , a thin teenager from Belfast , whose dribbling skills made him into a star with Manchester United and the darling of the sports and gossip columns epitomized the new era . |
| 6 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 7 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 8 | Manitou , ( the Great Spirit ) was so touched by the Indian 's devotion that upon his death Manitou made him into a rock standing off the inlet , and that monument has been called Siwash Rock ever since . |
| 9 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 10 | He wanted to take O'Hara to the Beaux Arts Club to drink him into sleep . |
| 11 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 12 | Woolley ordered him into it . |
| 13 | Disgust betrayed him into passion . |
| 14 | The President called him into the room . |
| 15 | A white dog with torn ears followed him into the room . |
| 16 | Molly followed him into the room , struck a match and lit the oil lamp . |
| 17 | There were few French wars in which the de Castelnau clan had not distinguished itself ; there had been a General de Castelnau under the great Napoleon , and another had been selected by Louis Napoleon to accompany him into exile after the dismal capitulation at Sedan . |
| 18 | His appointment to the keepership of Bewcastle brought him into conflict with William , third Lord Dacre , of Gilsland . |
| 19 | Eh ! ’ he protested , as Marie jolted him into wakefulness . |
| 20 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 21 | However , resentment from those who had learned the trade through the proper apprenticeship forced him into a debtors ' prison in 1738 . |
| 22 | In his speeches to the multitudes , Franco 's enthusiasm for the Falange put monarchists and military on notice that any attempt to push him into early retirement would have to contend with the mass opposition of his " popular support " . |
| 23 | An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security . |
| 24 | In October of that year the King came to Compiègne as the guest of the Emperor and Empress , who both deployed all their charms in an attempt to woo him into a declaration of support for France . |
| 25 | Rex hushed him into silence . |
| 26 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 27 | Nothing seemed to exist outside that swaying chair and Simon , whose terrifying ability to repress his own humanity made him into an enemy that Gazzer did n't know how to defeat . |
| 28 | His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation . |
| 29 | Her vacuum cleaner drove him into the street , in search of a coffee shop . |
| 30 | Anxiety urged him into further risk . |