Example sentences of "[verb] he into [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 2 | They trapped him in corners , caught him and drove him into small dark spaces that rattled terrifyingly . |
| 3 | Felix Jaeger cursed the dark destiny that had dragged him into these terrible events . |
| 4 | Davies 's rivalry with the Bute estate , which controlled Cardiff docks and the Taff Vale railway that served it , led him into another dramatic new venture , the building of new docks at Barry , ten miles to the west of Cardiff , as a rival entrepôt for Rhondda coal . |
| 5 | However , with the ascendancy of the conservative faction in the 1540s , Rudd began to achieve a modest prominence , being nominated clerk of the closet , which brought him into close personal contact with Henry VIII . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |