Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] them into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because they worked for large , modern firms , the state was closely involved with their employers , which meant their industrial grievances led them into conflict with the state . |
| 2 | The drivers piled them into cars and drove off to return shortly for another load . |
| 3 | The exhausted coolies stumbled against one another in panic as the overseers marshalled them into a circle with blows about the head and shoulders . |
| 4 | At night after close of the service it was the practice to stable the empty trains end to end on the running lines in the tunnels on each side of the shed car pits , the end doors of each vehicle opened to permit ready exit of passengers in the event of an emergency , and to allow access to the lines of stabled trains by cleaners and others whose nocturnal duties took them into the subway tunnels . |
| 5 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 6 | Subsequently , European partners were bought out and Arab banks transformed them into international banking subsidiaries . |
| 7 | Dr Reid said : ‘ I think what the children have suffered since social workers took them into care in November 1990 has been a lot worse than they had from their father . ’ |
| 8 | EUROPE 'S showjumping horses ended their longest ever journey to a Volvo World Cup Final — from Frankfurt , Germany , to southern California — in spectacular fashion , when United States ' fighter planes escorted them into two Miramar military air bases . |
| 9 | The French peasantry 's revolutionary energies were soon dissipated and channelled into supporting Napoleon Bonaparte 's military regime after the abolition of the aristocracy and land reforms turned them into small property-owners . |
| 10 | EVERTON keeper Neville Southall predicted his side would end the season challenging for Europe , even after their seventh defeat in nine games plunged them into relegation trouble . |
| 11 | Kings led them into battle for the land ( e.g. 2 Kings 8 ) and prophets pointed them to a righteousness that would bring them to a new highway , a land where mountains would be levelled , rough places smoothed ( Is. 40.4 ) , and the Prince of Peace would establish his kingdom . |
| 12 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 13 | Pulling his coat open , he pushed his hand into his trouser pocket , and taking out two half crowns dropped them into the tin . |
| 14 | The phrase ‘ A Dave McCullouch band ’ was often used to describe those whose musical wanderings took them into the world of personal art ethics and therefore obscurity . ) |
| 15 | The then politicians led them into battle without the right equipment and without a proper defence agreement . |
| 16 | In her book Beautiful Theories , the late Elizabeth Bruss made a revealing examination of the way in which Barthes 's different translators carried out their task ; she shows that whereas Heath did not disguise the difficulty and opacity in Barthes 's texts , his American translators turned them into smooth narratives . |
| 17 | The nearer he got the more the hills below became steeper and wilder , the paths on them fewer , and only rough stone walls patterned them into occasional huge fields . |