Example sentences of "[verb] him into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | England , too , came to realise his significance which is why , since the Carling-Guscott partnership began , they have tried somehow to work him into the side . |
| 2 | I often have to get up with Graham , carry him into the living room and nurse him into the living room and nurse him on the armchair . |
| 3 | Beattie invited him into the living room . |
| 4 | I invited him into the house and there , in the bright light , I took a closer look at him . |
| 5 | Then a shapely arm followed , and then the hamadryad leaned right out and grasped the astonished wizard firmly and , with that vegetable strength that can send roots questing into rock , drew him into the tree . |
| 6 | This eventually drew him into the company of Frederick Denison Maurice [ q.v. ] and the band of young men who surrounded him , and the combination of their enthusiasm and insights produced the Christian Socialist movement of 1848 to 1854 . |
| 7 | The dynamic campaign then waged under his command during the late summer of 1936 drew him into the spotlight as Nationalist Spain 's most successful general . |
| 8 | Five years before , Fisher drew him into the argument . |
| 9 | Taking Mungo 's hand in hers , which was clawed with arthritis , she drew him into the house . |
| 10 | such important guest this evening she 's let him into the banquet and of course the guys are dying at this stage . |
| 11 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 12 | She let him into the flat , where the television was on . |
| 13 | Mr Wood helped him into the kitchen while Mrs Wood filled an old tin bath with warm water . |
| 14 | Satisfied , she helped him into the bath and began soaping him all over ; as usual , he bawled loudly when it came to washing his hair . |
| 15 | A squall beat him into the bank . |
| 16 | Cut him out and slip him into the stocking so he peeps out of the top . |
| 17 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 18 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 19 | A win for Akinwande , who beat the much-hyped Herbie Hide for the 1989 ABA title , will elevate him close to a world top-10 rating , if not pushing him into the elite of one of the four organisations . |
| 20 | Tom picked up the two whiskeys and manoeuvred Patrick into the corner , pushing him into the seat first so that he was up against the wall . |
| 21 | At the churchyard stile the priest would meet him in ‘ reverential pomp ’ and conduct him into the Church to attend divine service . |
| 22 | ‘ If you will allow us , my friend and I will carry him into the house . |
| 23 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 24 | Her vacuum cleaner drove him into the street , in search of a coffee shop . |
| 25 | The table is too heavy to move , so you ca n't ram him into the wall with it , and there are no other weapons around . |
| 26 | The ‘ plane bumped , rolling Forster roughly to one side , catapulting him into the bleakness of reality . |
| 27 | When he does — if he does — report to DS Fox before you let him into the house , and leave the explanations to Fox . ’ |
| 28 | His cheerful London accent seemed to bring her back down to earth , and she hurried to unlock the bolts and let him into the hallway . |
| 29 | I would not let you from David 's side willingly , no more than I 'd send him into the battle without a shield . ’ |
| 30 | The man ordered her out of the car at Farley Mount and then bound her 23-year-old boyfriend before forcing him into the car 's boot . |