Example sentences of "[vb past] he into an " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Worse still , the embassy refugees manoeuvred him into an impossible corner . |
| 4 | She escorted him into an inner office where a young man sat behind a very large desk . |
| 5 | His title " Button " stuck even when Harvard shifted him into an administrative role ; he was obviously too intelligent to remain a runner . |
| 6 | He pushed him into an upright chair . |
| 7 | The house was full of trend-spotters , from gossip columnist Ivan Warner and irritable feminist Kate Armstrong to Treasury adviser Philip , worried about pension projections in an increasingly elderly society : from information vendor Charles Headleand to epidemiologist Ted Stennett , across whose horizon the science-fiction disease of AIDS was already casting a faint red ominous glow : from forensic psychiatrist Edgar Lintot ( who had not yet heard of AIDS , but who had heard rumours about changing views in high places on the sentencing of the criminally insane ) to Alix Bowen , worried on a mundane level about the future funding of her own job and on a less selfish level about the implications for the rehabilitation of female offenders of cuts in that funding : from theatre director Alison Peacock , anxious about her Arts Council subsidy , to Representative Public Figure , Sir Anthony Bland , the aptly named Chairman ( or so Ivan alleged ) of the Royal Commission on Royal Commissions , who was thinking that for various reasons he might have to resign , and from more bodies than one , before the jostling and the hinting pushed him into an undignified retreat . |