Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [verb] him into " in BNC.
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| 1 | In early years as a curate at Workington , the cruelties of the means test for taxation shook him into protest . |
| 2 | His interest in archaeology led him into contact with Flinders Petrie , for whom he worked as an assistant from 1892 , and who gave him his first experience in excavation . |
| 3 | This in turn brought him into contact with Owen Jones , the Superintendent of the Exhibition , for whom he wrote two introductions to Jones ' Grammar of Ornament , first published in 1856 . |
| 4 | Dealers at Harvard Securities found it amusing to ring up a client at 8.20 am. and to interrupt his shaving , breakfasting , or love-making in order to press him into buying stock . |
| 5 | Further , Guntram feared that Brunhild would contact the " pretender " , and he actually wrote to Gundovald in her name , in order to trick him into disbanding his troops . |
| 6 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 7 | Were they all pretending to be ignorant in order to trap him into making some punishable blunder . |