Example sentences of "[verb] he into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " . |
| 2 | It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES . |
| 3 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 4 | Still , the pain of the bite , like white-hot tongs , drove him into a new fury ; battering fists , to again fell Anton . |
| 5 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 6 | erm the managerial action which is available for you , t to take him out of there and put him into a different post , because he 's not capable of doing . |
| 7 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 8 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 9 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 10 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 11 | Behind him , lightning flared , turning him into a stark silhouette against the windows ; flooding the reception with white light . |
| 12 | She did not try to soothe him , but she took him away from Skid Row , pulling him into a kingsize bed with freshly-laundered sheets . |
| 13 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 14 | ‘ He died cursing your father for trapping him into a loveless marriage , ’ he growled . |
| 15 | An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people . |
| 16 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 17 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 18 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 19 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 20 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 21 | Still a little numb from shock , Juliet followed him into a huge hall , all gilt objects , velvet hangings , mirrors and oil-paintings . |
| 22 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 23 | He opened the door by his desk , and they followed him into a large room filled with dark , solid furniture . |
| 24 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 25 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 26 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 27 | She demoted him into a mere irritant with popping eyes , a frog . |
| 28 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 29 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 30 | That June , Duran clamped Leonard 's artistry by drawing him into a slugging match in Montreal and inflicting on the American what was to be his only defeat in 37 contests . |