Example sentences of "[verb] him into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 're tearing him into four , ’ said Snodgrass . |
| 2 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 7 | His position , both in the City and at the Tower , impelled him into political controversy , particularly during the exclusion crisis , when he was accused of suppressing information on the Popish Plot , and when his removal was demanded by the House of Lords and his conduct inquired into by the House of Commons . |
| 8 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 9 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 10 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 11 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It is Jim 's book-nourished imagination , in fact , that betrays him into unheroic behaviour . |
| 14 | Put him into that |
| 15 | put him into that post . |
| 16 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 17 | After that she needed no invitation and , when he was lying exhausted beside her , she would send him into loud peals of laughter with her spicy , tart wit and skill at mimicry , particularly of that rather stuffy English clerk , Hugh Corbett . |
| 18 | My only worry is that I 'm turning him into New Boy with an unhealthy interest in housework . |
| 19 | Rather than follow him into this detail , it is more important here to underline an important general characteristic which Hobbes says the claim has . |
| 20 | Last season he was trained by Oliver Sherwood , who turned him into one of the best novice hurdlers and now Henrietta Knight will be attempting to do the same over fences . |
| 21 | This blighted his prospects but turned him into new paths . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Graham had got him into this . |
| 24 | The first was just 20 minutes after the polls closed when , during a sample of random live interviews in Manchester , a man with a business on the verge of bankruptcy cheerfully admitted that the Tories had got him into this and he relied on them to get him out . |
| 25 | She wanted to shriek , to curse him into all eternity — but he had already turned his back and was strolling towards the sitting-room . |
| 26 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 27 | A wild urge to uproot himself , coupled with unhappy years of accumulated bitterness , threw him into one assault after another . |
| 28 | She ripped him into little pieces . |
| 29 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |
| 30 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |