Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] him into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well what responsibility does the church have for down and outs and should the vicar try to get rid of this man in the churchyard , or should the vicar invite him into the vicarage . |
| 2 | This is Brando 's first film since 1980 and it 's good that his old campaigning fire was still sufficiently there under the millions and the sloth to pull him into this . |
| 3 | The President called him into the room . |
| 4 | Because McKenzie know little or nothing about rugby , the coach tossed him into the front row . |
| 5 | The arrests gave Seth a record of at least nine drink driving incidents , leading the judge to order him into Alcoholics Anonymous and on to two years ' probation . |
| 6 | Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ? |
| 7 | The King took him into his barge and cried , ‘ Now I know the greatest heretic in Kent ’ and showed him the letters from Canterbury . |
| 8 | With one hand Taheb did the same , while the other guided him into her . |
| 9 | The bearer pulled him into a passage so thin that even the narrowest of stalls could not wedge itself in . |
| 10 | Tolby seemed to have buttered up all the Devenishes for what he could get : the father took him into the firm and launched him on his career ; Clare darned his socks and cooked him meals ; and Hubert — if Henry was right — had put some business his way . |
| 11 | At one moment the boatswain Jack Allgood comes out of a berserk rage to realise that he , a warrant officer , has allowed his hatred of the captain to lead him into mutiny ; the points of physical detail enforce his emotional agony : |
| 12 | The word followed him into the courtyard . |
| 13 | Even as he uses the accommodation in Annexe A to manoeuvre Serafin into discovering for himself the waiting garret , so he is using the garret to manoeuvre him into rejecting all the proposed associates in Annexe B. Once Serafin has insisted on installing himself in the garret — against all reasonable advice — he is going to discover that the kind of staff he needs will be young and agile , with a good knowledge of the backstairs of Government buildings and an ability to duck their heads and remain inclined slightly forwards for long periods of time . |
| 14 | ‘ Follow me and no harm will come to thy sheep ’ , the Emperor replied , and taking him by the hand led him into a cave in the side of the mountain . |
| 15 | I think we 've got mum to thank as well for erm convincing the doctor to send him into Southwold . |
| 16 | After a while Rostov allowed the press to carry him into a corner . |
| 17 | Tripp 's starting point may have been road accidents , but his overall grasp of the problem took him into wider fields . |
| 18 | The officer led him into what had once been some kind of common room . |
| 19 | The guru sent him into his hut — just a small , leaf-covered hut with a narrow door — to meditate on his parents . |
| 20 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 21 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
| 22 | A squall beat him into the bank . |
| 23 | Twice a squall bowled him into the water as he followed the shore round . |
| 24 | His bedclothes were changed and a nurse helped him into a theatre gown . |
| 25 | An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security . |
| 26 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 27 | In October of that year the King came to Compiègne as the guest of the Emperor and Empress , who both deployed all their charms in an attempt to woo him into a declaration of support for France . |
| 28 | Out of the corner of my eye I noticed how the prioress kept sending him frowning glances at being ignored , interspersed with coy smiles in an attempt to provoke him into some loving conspiracy about the events of the previous night . |
| 29 | The New Wave films that do work tend to be those built around a single , larger-than-life character , like Tom Jones or Alfie ( 1966 ) , in which Michael Caine plays a cockney Don Juan who ‘ do n't believe in making anyone unhappy , not if you do n't have to do it ’ but is forever breaking the hearts of young girls , until the sight of one of his middle-aged victims going through an abortion forces him into repentance . |
| 30 | Silverstein was given the task of approaching Douglas in an effort to entice him into accepting the part . |