Example sentences of "[vb past] them into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the late 1980s the Cubans manipulated them into a needless confrontation in Angola , which lasted much longer than it should have done because , this time , the Washington team was clumsier . |
| 2 | A young man in an immaculate dark blue suit took over from the young woman who had met them at the elevator and led them into a vast room , furnished with antiques . |
| 3 | Flunkeys led them into a private part of La Noblesse where they were warmly greeted by an expansive Grunte , who presented the ladies with a flower and with grave courtesy showed each to her seat . |
| 4 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 5 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 6 | Thus , it can be argued that the impact of the young Elvis Presley was due to the way in which , taking a range of pre-existing musical , lyric and performance elements , he rearticulated them into a new pattern set by the intersection and intermediation of certain images of class ( proletarian ) , ethnicity ( black/poor white ) , age ( ‘ youth ’ ) , gender ( male ) and nationality ( American South ) . |
| 7 | The man stuffed them into a white plastic bag and ran off . |
| 8 | Cleo took the velvet poison bag and the money pouch out of her drawer , together with a handful of stockings , and stuffed them into an old leather holdall in which she 'd formerly kept a collection of limbs , torsos and heads from broken porcelain dolls . |
| 9 | Where they could have taken genes from an old disease-resistant variety and inserted them into a disease-vulnerable , high-yielding new variety , the old genes can no longer be found . |
| 10 | Mandy spotted them and waved that they were all right , and Matthew turned and headed them into a safe cove , too . |
| 11 | Then he bundled them into a stolen car in their nightclothes . |
| 12 | I booked them into a working men 's cabaret club in South Wales . |
| 13 | He had taken a group of talented individuals and moulded them into a superb team , ridding them of their old factions and weaknesses , and showing the disbelievers that black men were every bit as good as white . |
| 14 | Very light , very hurried steps , but the bare , glossy wood turned them into a muffled drum-roll . |
| 15 | Our questions ranged far and wide and his courtesy and patience turned them into an intriguing trail of discovery which was endlessly fascinating and richly rewarding , for he is also a natural raconteur . |
| 16 | She picked up her discarded clothes and threw them into a small bureau , scratched and marked by years of neglect . |
| 17 | Men and women carried their own children on their shoulders to the church and threw them into a common pit . |
| 18 | During the post-war period Hayek has drawn out some of the assumptions underpinning his economic theorizing and developed them into a general theory of society . |
| 19 | A heavy door swung open and a figure beckoned them into a warm lozenge of light . |
| 20 | Their campaigns for legal enforcement were backed by a powerful language which identified whole new technologies of sex and forged them into a popular crusade for reform . |
| 21 | Back inside the house he gathered them into an oversized bunch and headed for the kitchen , leaving a trail of fallen petals in his wake . |
| 22 | A hammer carried by Carrington in his canvas bag of tools soon tapped them into a loosened position . |
| 23 | Between 1840 and 1880 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels criticized and restructured the ideas they gleaned from all three sources , and combined them into a potent synthesis which they acclaimed as the first ‘ scientific socialism , . |
| 24 | The replacements got their planes off the ground and Woolley marshalled them into a broad arrowhead , with Dickinson and Church out on the flanks . |
| 25 | My young son put them into a barrelling machine to clean them , so they may have changed colour as a result . |
| 26 | His liking for convivial company , found only in the male-dominated bars of New Jersey , a throwback from his forebears of County Cork , eventually forced them into a difficult matrimonial situation from which he occasionally evacuated himself and went off on a drifting reconnaissance of the world outside . |
| 27 | She ushered them into a small cluttered room where a middle-aged woman in a navy dress sat behind a littered desk . |
| 28 | Evans got his blow in first as he stood at the door , ushered them into a large office overlooking the Kaiserstrasse . |
| 29 | He returned shortly and ushered them into an airy office , overlooking the Grand Union Canal . |
| 30 | He got the ends of the belt around his hands and wound them into a good , tight grip . |