Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] him into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 2 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 3 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 4 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 5 | For one thing , his obsession with tactics has led him into an absurd devaluation of the merits and achievements of Peter Beardsley . |
| 6 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 7 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 8 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |
| 9 | The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules . |
| 10 | The Traverse Theatre had been born in the Grass Market in 1962 and that , together with his involvement in the Edinburgh Festival , had sucked him into a travelling show of poets , writers , actors , directors , and hype-merchants from across the western — and sometimes eastern world . |
| 11 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
| 12 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 13 | He did not write well because he had learned his letters late in life and , though Lucille had made him into a much better reader , he was still clumsy with a pen or pencil . |
| 14 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 15 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 16 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 17 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 20 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |
| 21 | He had smiled at the frontier guards and kept walking with his rucksack slung over one shoulder … until the hand had clamped on his collar , and the boots had pitched him into a cell . |
| 22 | He said they had forced him into a car and he had heard the lorry start up behind him . |
| 23 | ON THE morning of May 11th , John Patten , the education secretary , was said to be ‘ incandescent ’ at reports that John Major had bounced him into a climbdown on his plan for school tests for children aged seven and 14 . |
| 24 | His outrageous leotards , sexy routines and snappy catch-phrases — ‘ I want your body ! ’ — have made him into a sort of Linford Christie with a breakfast box . |
| 25 | And she 's got him into a very good er nursery school apparently . |