Example sentences of "[vb pp] him into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Graham had got him into this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Felix Jaeger cursed the dark destiny that had dragged him into these terrible events . |
| 6 | He was a Georgian by birth ; did he , then , share the fierce nationalistic pride of his fellow-countrymen , or had his orphanage moulded him into one of the bland , rootless vegetables who regarded themselves as Soviet citizens ? |
| 7 | This , followed by a pint of the Skein of Geese 's execrable ale and an overheard conversation between two gin-guzzling county ladies concerning the merits of shorter hemlines , had plunged him into abject misery . |
| 8 | Nothing else , for the rectory belonged to the church , and she had discovered that her late husband 's public generosity had run him into considerable debt . |
| 9 | If politicians were normally able to manipulate freeholders and councillors by judicious use of their patronage powers , it is equally clear that they were on occasion themselves manipulated , and for all David Scott 's obvious embarrassment over the Robinson affair , it is evident that he felt unable to show much resentment towards the man who had led him into that predicament . |
| 10 | This would have taken him into working-class black dance-halls , bars , churches : more generally , by extension , into the whole network of subterranean currents beneath the bland surface of the metropolitan American musical mainstream . |