Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he into [art] " in BNC.

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1 A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car .
2 The boy was deliverying papers in Kingham village just before seven this morning when a man tried to drag him into a waiting estate car .
3 As he approached the water she begged him to come with her and tried to drag him into the sea .
4 But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself .
5 She 'd followed him into the Rockingham public house by the Elephant and Castle .
6 Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die .
7 Scott made no secret of Leonard 's ambiguities regarding law , and he sought to ease him into a position nearer to his own , of both lawyer and poet .
8 Jean 's boss decided to bring him into the business as a sales director .
9 Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever .
10 As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west .
11 After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house .
12 He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made .
13 The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules .
14 The Traverse Theatre had been born in the Grass Market in 1962 and that , together with his involvement in the Edinburgh Festival , had sucked him into a travelling show of poets , writers , actors , directors , and hype-merchants from across the western — and sometimes eastern world .
15 Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ .
16 She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy .
17 They had made him into a gunman .
18 He did not write well because he had learned his letters late in life and , though Lucille had made him into a much better reader , he was still clumsy with a pen or pencil .
19 In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins .
20 Corbett suddenly grasped that the Bishop , like others , really believed he was here for other reasons and hoped to trap him into an admission .
21 She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty .
22 ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity .
23 Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD .
24 He was Thorfinn 's first cousin , and his very revolt against his heritage had driven him into the arms of Siward and Durham .
25 ‘ Survival of the — ’ Jamie drew his breath in sharply and pulled the stick so hard he almost fell off his stool , but he managed to dodge the darting yellow bolts that had driven him into the corner of the screen' — nastiest . ’
26 She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was .
27 All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap .
28 Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity .
29 Uncle Fred left four sons , two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow , Aunt May , who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy .
30 A BUNGLING shoplifter tried to flog a pair of Marks and Spencer shorts — to the store detective who had followed him into the street after seeing him nick them .
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