Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] he into [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his speeches to the multitudes , Franco 's enthusiasm for the Falange put monarchists and military on notice that any attempt to push him into early retirement would have to contend with the mass opposition of his " popular support " . |
| 2 | This peculiar quality of solid , clenched abstraction appears in phrase after phrase — " compactness " dwells within the " " compression " " of Horatian metres ; but as soon as a translator attempts to transpose him into English quatrains , things go askew and adrift , because every compression is paid for with an expansion . |
| 3 | Zoe 's efforts to push him into unsuitable employment had been annoying and resistible . |
| 4 | Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest . |
| 5 | Hoccleve ‘ s interest for us is accidental : the pressures of his mental illness pushed him into vivid personal confession in an age in which autobiography was almost always purely conventional . |
| 6 | ALBERT Cowen was former deputy leader of the Labour group in York and a railway worker in the city for 38 years two reasons to bring him into regular conflict with York 's Tory MP of nine years , Conal Gregory . |
| 7 | Educated at King Edward 's School , Birmingham , Phil Richardson had initially shown great promise as a goalkeeper and played professionally with Aston Villa before injury forced him into premature retirement . |