Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] he into " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 2 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 4 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 5 | MIDDLESBROUGH defender Derek Whyte thanks his lucky stars that the English Premier League has licked him into shape for the toughest 90 minutes of his football life . |
| 6 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 7 | The poll tax has been an outstanding success for the right hon. Member for Wirral , West ( Mr. Hunt ) — it has got him into the Cabinet . |
| 8 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 9 | As attorney-general , he visited Belfast monthly and knows the top players in the establishment there , and responsibility for issues such as extradition has brought him into contact with senior figures in the Republic . |
| 10 | It is necessary to turn back to Ezra 's childhood to find a key to that dire impatience which has led him into so strange a spiritual home as Fascist Italy . |
| 11 | But Dr Jones 's involvement with industry has led him into difficulties — which lend a critical edge to the parable . |
| 12 | Perhaps no player has ever been quite as competitive as Botham , and if his combativeness has led him into trouble off the field it has generally worked in his favour on it — except when he has refused to part with the ball despite not bowling well , or when he has holed out in the deep when a more circumspect approach was required . |
| 13 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 14 | His brief has converted him into Labour 's chaos and disaster spokesman . |
| 15 | Nicholson 's new boy Adrian Maguire has thirty four winners already … but a double from Richard Dunwoody has taken him into the twenties |
| 16 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 17 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 18 | If you 'd shuffled him into , say , motoring , no one would have cared . |
| 19 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 20 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 21 | She 'd goaded him into doing what he 'd done , perhaps even hoping he would take her against her will , she realised in despair . |
| 22 | They should never have let him into the RAF — ca n't think why they did n't spot it . |
| 23 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 24 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 25 | Southey wrote long afterwards that he was astonished at this turn of events , since Coleridge , such a short time before , had talked of being ‘ deeply in love with a certain Mary Evans ’ ; Coleridge , on the other hand , was later to blame Southey for having persuaded him into marriage against his will . |
| 26 | If Mr Clinton had offered more , it would have got him into trouble elsewhere . |
| 27 | Even if she could have got him into one , which she very much doubted , there was no guarantee it could hold his weight without breaking . |
| 28 | That is precisely the state I should n't have got him into . |
| 29 | A man who has a job that could possibly have brought him into contact with the victims , though I do n't think so myself . |
| 30 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |