Example sentences of "[vb past] them into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He led them into a room overlooking an attractive courtyard , with a paved area surrounded by shrubs . |
| 3 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 4 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 5 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He led them into the mortuary , and pulled the sheet back from the body of the girl . |
| 8 | He then led them into the Catherine Palace , once more brandishing his authority whenever an official came forward to stop them . |
| 9 | A pack leader saw the police in hot pursuit , called six Sturmabteilungen to him and led them into the stadium . |
| 10 | He led them into the kitchen , chatting to Blanche and Dexter as if they were house guests rather than police officers who had come to interview him about a murder . |
| 11 | Lady Macleod received the travellers in ‘ a stately dining-room ’ , fed them and led them into the drawing-room for tea to meet the family . |
| 12 | As the Galks led them into the desert , the travellers could see the Cun arguing with the skull people , trying to reclaim their raw meat . |
| 13 | A gaoler led them into the porter 's lodge , the fellow bowing and scraping as he recognised Sir John . |
| 14 | Devotedly Meredith , she experienced such a choking sensation of jealousy — she thought it must be like parachuting from an aeroplane , in that she could n't breath and the world dropped away — that she scrumpled up both scraps of paper and flung them into the metal basket beneath the counter . |
| 15 | And at once , two more leapt forward and scooped up the bleeding lumps of flesh and bone and flung them into the open furnaces . |
| 16 | At last , a functioning airlock admitted them into a section where a breathable atmosphere survived , and warmth . |
| 17 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 18 | Only one Egyptian historian is known to us , the priestly scribe Manetho who compiled the list of all the pharaohs and conveniently divided them into the particular groups or dynasties which Egyptologists still employ today . |
| 19 | Squatting down , he picked up the other five squirming bodies and stuffed them into a cloth sack . |
| 20 | She shuddered , then plucked some typed sheets of paper from the small table under the window and stuffed them into a folder . |
| 21 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 22 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 23 | Anthony even claimed to have discovered ‘ maps of Ireland ’ on the sheets when he stuffed them into the machine in the local Launderette . |
| 24 | The man peeled off two bank notes from the roll in his pocket and stuffed them into the conductor 's tunic pocket . |
| 25 | Feeling the cold more than ever in my nakedness , I had , reluctantly , dismantled a poor looking cloth-bound work titled A Victorian Psalter , scrunched up the pages and stuffed them into the spaces around my body . |
| 26 | I took the wad of twenties out of the bag and stuffed them into the back pocket of my jeans . |
| 27 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 28 | It was their own form-master Sam Sylvester who got them into the trouble in the first place . |
| 29 | So because they do n't like the sound of this the other two have drawn off their magic stone and got them into the top jobs in er consortium ! |
| 30 | Yeah but I thought in the case of like Petula Clark and Lulu it was because they won it that got them into the scene sort of thing . |