Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] him into " in BNC.

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1 Pound was a bohemian figure , despite his Quaker origins , who espoused an anti-credit economic philosophy which thrust him into anti-Semitism .
2 One , apprenticed to a shoe maker , recalled not a cruel master but a mistress who turned him into a household drudge .
3 Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world .
4 Leslie Brent was in Dovercourt for three weeks before going to Bunce Court , a happy chance which put him into the most favoured category of child refugees .
5 Justus Lipsius was the classical scholar who introduced him into the military sphere .
6 On his saint 's day she summons him into her inmost boudoir , dismisses her girls , permits him to braid her hair and for a moment to fondle her breasts .
7 Oh yes , every month I call him into the office and I say , it still is n't good enough , pull your socks up .
8 The small living-room she took him into was made even smaller by the amount of stuff she had in there .
9 Gavin can remember little about the savage attack which put him into the John Radcliffe Hospital .
10 But Taylor will have noted that there is much more to Atkinson 's game now than the blistering pace which launched him into league football with Ipswich Town six years ago .
11 THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction .
12 That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered .
13 On one occasion , Orton told about an old man who took him into a cave in Tunisia and asked him to feel his posterior .
14 Without a word she followed him into his office .
15 But perhaps you do n't remember how he hated that life , and what a state it got him into .
16 In 1905 he published Studies in Colonial Nationalism , the book which brought him into public notice .
17 As soon as he stepped out into the fluorescent-lit corridor , he was met by an official who hurried him into a briefing room .
18 First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates .
19 At Oxford , influenced by H. B. Bulteel [ q.v. ] , he experienced an evangelical conversion which brought him into a circle of somewhat radical piety .
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