Example sentences of "[verb] he into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 2 | Only one terrorist , Fawaz Yunis , has been arrested under the 1984 law and the FBI lured him into international waters to make the arrest . |
| 3 | She had assumed his letters were the product of his lifelong rage , the festering cancer of his childhood , driving him into unreasonable behaviour , and a tendency to see the worst in anyone who was a friend of Charles . |
| 4 | His position , both in the City and at the Tower , impelled him into political controversy , particularly during the exclusion crisis , when he was accused of suppressing information on the Popish Plot , and when his removal was demanded by the House of Lords and his conduct inquired into by the House of Commons . |
| 5 | In 1941 he was still very content with an unrealized , cerebral exposition of the Christian gospel which was to lead him into many distortions . |
| 6 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 7 | Anyone wanting to render him into modern English must reckon with the possibility of having to abandon or in some way replace the metre ; and then , where Horatian Latin steps lightly , so lightly , as to the sound of flutes , in comes English with galumphing hoof , trumpeting rhymes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is Jim 's book-nourished imagination , in fact , that betrays him into unheroic behaviour . |
| 10 | put him into that post . |
| 11 | ‘ He was a black Jew ; the Church has turned him into some kind of Barbie doll . ’ |
| 12 | After that she needed no invitation and , when he was lying exhausted beside her , she would send him into loud peals of laughter with her spicy , tart wit and skill at mimicry , particularly of that rather stuffy English clerk , Hugh Corbett . |
| 13 | My only worry is that I 'm turning him into New Boy with an unhealthy interest in housework . |
| 14 | Rather than follow him into this detail , it is more important here to underline an important general characteristic which Hobbes says the claim has . |
| 15 | This blighted his prospects but turned him into new paths . |
| 16 | She wanted to shriek , to curse him into all eternity — but he had already turned his back and was strolling towards the sitting-room . |
| 17 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 18 | A wild urge to uproot himself , coupled with unhappy years of accumulated bitterness , threw him into one assault after another . |
| 19 | She ripped him into little pieces . |
| 20 | To improve his nutritional state and get him into clinical remission before surgery he was given Elemental 028 but immediately became systemically unwell and developed diarrhoea and vomiting . |
| 21 | Cranston sat on the bed just staring at the corpse as if the man was alive and the coroner wished to draw him into friendly conversation . |
| 22 | And the new line of Mr Ryabov and his allies might be a cleverer tactic than the one used by Mr Khasbulatov : instead of opposing the president , Mr Ryabov might be trying to draw him into protracted haggling in order to dissipate the momentum the president won in the referendum . |
| 23 | He was surprised that the doctor should seek to draw him into such boldness with one who was of the other sex , and the daughter of a friend . |
| 24 | Strawberry moved out of the burrow and Hazel followed him into another run , leading deeper down below the wood . |
| 25 | Very much on the alert , we followed him into thick bush . |
| 26 | And Larder , who was Goulding 's mentor on the 1990 tour to New Zealand , warns that he must control the wild instincts which keep getting him into hot water . |
| 27 | If some friend of Ali 's did n't get him , then the Twenty-fourth Imam would probably grind him into little pieces . |
| 28 | The boy had not spoken since they thrust him into this sandstone cell under the ground and left him with his single candle and his narrow bed . |
| 29 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |
| 30 | They pulled him into some trees and he was raped by one of them . |