Example sentences of "[vb past] him into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . ] . |
| 2 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 3 | Still , the pain of the bite , like white-hot tongs , drove him into a new fury ; battering fists , to again fell Anton . |
| 4 | And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time . |
| 5 | The victory , the 18th of Kite 's career , was worth $198,000 and lifted him into the top spot on this year 's US Tour money-winning list with $292,361 . |
| 6 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 7 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 8 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 9 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 10 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 11 | An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people . |
| 12 | She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 14 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 15 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 16 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 17 | Still a little numb from shock , Juliet followed him into a huge hall , all gilt objects , velvet hangings , mirrors and oil-paintings . |
| 18 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 19 | He opened the door by his desk , and they followed him into a large room filled with dark , solid furniture . |
| 20 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 21 | She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove . |
| 22 | Mosley did find kindred spirits in the Labour movement , some of whom followed him into the New Party and a smaller proportion into fascism , but although the party conference and the Labour movement in general were sympathetic to his practical suggestions , the Labour government rejected his proposals . |
| 23 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 24 | She rose obediently and followed him into the small counselling-room across the corridor from the nurses ' station , relieved to remember that Deana Davenport had the day off today . |
| 25 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 26 | Dougal followed him into the little garden . |
| 27 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 28 | She demoted him into a mere irritant with popping eyes , a frog . |
| 29 | It puzzled him into the New Year of 1961 that no one asked his opinion . |
| 30 | I grew up among the kind of communists and socialists who guided him into the working-class communities and who staff some of their struggles . |