Example sentences of "[verb] us into [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first two hours knock us into shape , however , as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri . |
| 2 | Despite fourteen years of trying to smash us into submission , they 'll fail to break the spirit of the working people of Britain . |
| 3 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 4 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 5 | those who might tempt us into life … |
| 6 | I I I do n't want to go down the road to the same extent that they 've done , when they put us into debt by fifty er fifty billion o o o o o o o just on on on one day , but I 'm sure that there is a a strong case to look |
| 7 | Our dominant motivations are those of rational self-interest and they tend to lead us into crime because crime , however defined , involves self-restraint . |
| 8 | ‘ They would break in in a trice , while you were putting fresh shot in your fowling gun , and cut us into mincemeat . |
| 9 | We do n't need to see er leaflets and so on urging us into merger before they 're actually ready to take place from the membership itself . |
| 10 | Kate Garner 's brief was to locate the humour in their characters , creating portraits of this select band of people who can trip us into laughter . |
| 11 | You probably would n't even recognise a moment like that today if it happened , now they 've turned us into football TV junkies with all this coverage . ’ |
| 12 | In the old days , there used to be crazes , Adam and the Ants , Gary Numan , absurd figures who nonetheless possessed a certain mesmeric force , managed to induct us into ludicrousness , like the Pied Piper . |
| 13 | This had little to do with the computer but it did spur us into action . |
| 14 | Not that this stops the tragic artist from coaxing us into awareness of the normally intolerable , taking advantage of ways in which things terrible in experience become agreeable in imagination . |
| 15 | But at this point the story takes an abrupt turn , and takes us into territory that at first seems quite strange , beyond even our imagining , let alone our experience . |
| 16 | The cross takes us into death and failure , but the Greeks had another beautiful idea which is called ‘ deification ’ . |
| 17 | This takes us into item three , this is the provision of service land , er , the |
| 18 | However , the extraordinary pleasure of seeing a bunch of terrified men running in all directions and in complete disarray spurred us into action . |
| 19 | He could n't invade us , he was going to starve us and erm starve us into submission . |
| 20 | Then Aunt Bedelia made some cocoa and managed to draw us into conversation . |
| 21 | Taking an existentialist approach , he says that it is God who delivers us into freedom , which is not something which we can accomplish for ourselves . |
| 22 | The one that for the past five years has brought us into crisis , anarchy , and economic decay ? " |
| 23 | The consolidation of women 's visibility and conspicuous presence in adult education means that the men with power must take us into account in ways which otherwise would not happen . |
| 24 | Pop 's role in this struggle is to lure us into truancy from our better selves . |
| 25 | These ‘ needs ’ constitute sources of control because they provide for both incentives and disincentives : their satisfaction can be used to lure us into conformity , and the threat of their denial can be used to divert us from criminality . |
| 26 | The chart , carelessly applied , using the wrong sightings off the wrong landmarks could lead us into error and be just as dangerous as ignoring it completely . |
| 27 | It can either lead us into bitterness and despair , or it can drive us towards greater sensitivity and responsibility and a deepening love for God and for others . |
| 28 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 29 | Our fieldwork brought us into contact with a number of organisations in that sector which could be described as " new " users , seeking to manage a climate of increased " uncertainty " . |
| 30 | A little nervousness gets the adrenaline going and kick-starts us into action . |