Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] him into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rosie had bitten him twice in the past ; once when she managed to free herself by chewing through her tethering-rope , and once when she leaped through the window of Buddie 's jeep and chased him into the pig-yard . |
| 2 | She went to the window and watched him into the street , then into his car , then out of sight . |
| 3 | Wilkins began struggling with a constable and pushed him into a bush . |
| 4 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 5 | In fact , she thought , tonsure his greying hair and put him into a plain robe and he would have passed for a tubby , somewhat benign-looking monk . |
| 6 | By the final scene , however , we infer his dislike of McKendrick from the fact that having seriously impinged on his negative face by placing Hollar 's thesis in his briefcase and putting him into a situation of considerable personal danger , he makes no apology for his action whatsoever . |
| 7 | There was never any need for her to take the initiative or inveigle him into bed . |
| 8 | We were in our own parish and had never been to Henfield at all … we said we would obey the law , if they would show us any part that empowered them to take a man from his own poorhouse and put him into one of another parish . |
| 9 | Then they sealed the lid and threw him into the Nile . |
| 10 | When the Wilde scandal broke in 1895 , Mrs Leverson stood out against public opinion and took him into her home on his being released on bail , an act of courage and loyalty for which she has become justly renowned . |
| 11 | He said he had bumped into Shildon on Monday evening and urged him into a pub , taking the opportunity to make up the quarrel begun on Friday . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ We never got any recognition for it , but Vidal 's short , geometric look , which made his name and got him into the news , had never before been seen . |
| 14 | His mother spoke as if she believed an unnatural weight of learning had fallen on her son 's head and knocked him into madness . |
| 15 | Nutty stopped Midnight and brought him into the centre and Nails thought he was going to get a rest , but she immediately sent him off in the other direction . |
| 16 | Far along the bean-row , Hazel glimpsed Buckthorn 's back and followed him into the depths of the field . |
| 17 | She found him again later that night and took him into her bed . |
| 18 | ‘ Good morning , ’ she greeted him stiffly , letting him into her flat and preceding him into her sitting-room . |
| 19 | Possibly too he aspired to this final showdown with his father in order to needle Theo , penetrate his tidy exterior and force him into the open . |
| 20 | One day , she had seen a car screech to a stop and several men overpower a pedestrian and force him into their vehicle ; from a distance she had smelled the smoke of bonfires burning blacklisted books ; she had glimpsed the outline of a human body floating in the dark waters of the canal . |
| 21 | As we saw , the latter relation threatened to compromise the son 's masculinity and to force him into a passive , feminine relation to his mother which could result either in abject surrender , as in depression , or in defiant revolt , as in mania . |
| 22 | He had taken the trouble to seek out the young man in the morning and tease him into conversation — as he thought subtly , but Harrison was immediately aware that he was being sized up . |
| 23 | She apologized for the muddle and ushered him into the living-room . |
| 24 | Both came to the Sunday services immediately after coming along to the centre , one of the lads having a belief in Jesus but had never taken the step of repentance and asking Him into his heart , when he did his reaction was to say he felt the chains fall from him and that he believes Jesus has broken his addiction to alcohol . |
| 25 | Harry was enjoying himself : he had been drinking , and was in that pleasant state of semi-inebriation that softened his tongue and turned him into a quite amiable human being . |
| 26 | Then one of the men gave a shout , seized the boy by a leg and pulled him into the hall . |
| 27 | This time , as she held open the door and saw him into the car , she was unable to refrain from privately comparing his physical likeness to that of her own father . |
| 28 | She invited him in , pulled at her hair , relocked the door and followed him into the living room . |
| 29 | Sometimes he 's so determined he 's not going to go that we have to forcibly put him out of the door and get him into the car and get him there somehow . |
| 30 | She prised her husband 's fingers from the edge of the door and pulled him into the hall . |