Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Then they sealed the lid and threw him into the Nile . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | His mother spoke as if she believed an unnatural weight of learning had fallen on her son 's head and knocked him into madness . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Far along the bean-row , Hazel glimpsed Buckthorn 's back and followed him into the depths of the field . |
| 14 | She found him again later that night and took him into her bed . |
| 15 | She apologized for the muddle and ushered him into the living-room . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Then one of the men gave a shout , seized the boy by a leg and pulled him into the hall . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She invited him in , pulled at her hair , relocked the door and followed him into the living room . |
| 20 | She prised her husband 's fingers from the edge of the door and pulled him into the hall . |
| 21 | She pushed her way through a high-spirited crowd who did n't seem to notice her rudeness and followed him into the kitchen . |
| 22 | It seemed a little drastic the way they frog-marched him through Casualty and tossed him into the street . |
| 23 | Suddenly she bustled over to her sergeant and motioned him into her office . |
| 24 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 25 | She took his hand and led him into the sitting room . |
| 26 | The tiny woman took Tuppe by the hand and led him into the darkness at the rear of the shop . |
| 27 | Corbett bowed , withdrew , and spent the rest of the time kicking his heels in an antechamber before a servant imperiously summoned him up the great staircase and ushered him into a brilliantly decorated room . |
| 28 | She put a hand on his shoulder and marched him into her tack-room at the end of the yard . |
| 29 | I clambered over the wall separating his garden from the orchard and followed him into the cottage . |
| 30 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |