Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [vb pp] him into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , I have n't met this gentleman , but I 'm told that he is a great expert on the question of sound and the nature of sound and , and the problems by it , and I 've invited him into the studio and I 'm going to interview him . |
| 2 | I have put him into the London to act as lieutenant , ’ the admiral reported . |
| 3 | " With Sir Edmund Pusey 's agreement I have taken him into our confidence . |
| 4 | I have initiated him into the ‘ Secret Doctrine ’ , opened his centres of vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers . |
| 5 | It is necessary to turn back to Ezra 's childhood to find a key to that dire impatience which has led him into so strange a spiritual home as Fascist Italy . |
| 6 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 7 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 8 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 9 | He never spoke of the tragedy which had driven him into seclusion . |
| 10 | His feelings were cleansed of the poisons of revenge , contempt , self-hatred , envy and avarice which had worked him into a hellish turbulence of vicious thoughts . |
| 11 | Peach retired in 1905 after 43 years service in a career which had taken him into nearly every part of Scotland and brought him world-wide recognition as an outstanding field geologist . |
| 12 | Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD . |
| 13 | Albert has scorned a stammer that he will tell you has got him into trouble on more than one occasion on the golf course ; and he emerged from brother Alfie 's shadow to partner his own Open champion — a player who at one time was reputed to throw a 5-iron almost as long as he could hit it , and who , it was told , sometimes sacked two caddies a week — to the prized claret jug . |
| 14 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 15 | If you 'd shuffled him into , say , motoring , no one would have cared . |
| 16 | She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle . |
| 17 | She 'd goaded him into doing what he 'd done , perhaps even hoping he would take her against her will , she realised in despair . |
| 18 | Joe demanded , remembering the last time that she 'd dumped him into trouble in a Chinese restaurant , but the chef said something angry and then ignored him and so Joe pushed on past and shouldered his way through into the main part of the premises . |
| 19 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 20 | You 've wangled him into dinner tonight , but of his own accord he would have gone straight off … to … to Marise , probably . ’ |
| 21 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 22 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 23 | She meant that , once she had talked him into releasing her from this crazy engagement , she would be free to take up her own life once more . |
| 24 | His cheerful rubicund face was graver than usual , and when she had ushered him into the dining-room he began without preliminary : |
| 25 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |
| 26 | Before Saragossa the two Frankish hosts joined together , and the king received homage from those Saracen chiefs who had invited him into Spain as their protector . |
| 27 | By pure chance , while walking up a street in London , Eric had met a friend who had invited him into White 's Club for a drink . |
| 28 | A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was Theo and their father in unholy alliance who had talked him into abandoning Sien when she was on the mend , he now alleged . |