Example sentences of "[vb pp] him into [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | such important guest this evening she 's let him into the banquet and of course the guys are dying at this stage . |
| 2 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules . |
| 5 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |
| 6 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 7 | Having waited so long to hear from the ‘ one man ’ who knew what had happened , when he appeared they could do nothing but gaze on him ; having made him into a celluloid star , there was no reason at this point to spoil it , and make him real . |
| 8 | His outrageous leotards , sexy routines and snappy catch-phrases — ‘ I want your body ! ’ — have made him into a sort of Linford Christie with a breakfast box . |
| 9 | ‘ His addiction has turned him into a cheat and a liar ’ |
| 10 | I ca n't believe you 've persuaded Sharpe to attend , or have you turned him into a dancing man ? ’ |
| 11 | The poll tax has been an outstanding success for the right hon. Member for Wirral , West ( Mr. Hunt ) — it has got him into the Cabinet . |
| 12 | His face and body were a mass of bruises after he had been attacked at his home by a forty-strong mob who were preparing to lynch him in the remains of his once beautiful garden when the military had arrived and bundled him into the back of a police van and brought him to La Tambier . |
| 13 | Now , I have n't met this gentleman , but I 'm told that he is a great expert on the question of sound and the nature of sound and , and the problems by it , and I 've invited him into the studio and I 'm going to interview him . |
| 14 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 15 | The President called him into the room . |
| 16 | He had grabbed hold of Cliff and had him halfway over the ship 's side and would have dumped him into the dock had he not been restrained by a couple of his workmates . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | If she 'd had the power at that moment she would have reached out and crushed him into the carpet . |
| 19 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | In the normal way I would not have followed him into the gunsmith 's , a place of such absolute masculinity , smelling of game and metal , ringing with men 's talk . |
| 22 | He had smiled at the frontier guards and kept walking with his rucksack slung over one shoulder … until the hand had clamped on his collar , and the boots had pitched him into a cell . |
| 23 | He said they had forced him into a car and he had heard the lorry start up behind him . |
| 24 | Instead of turning left over the canal bridge which would have taken him into the village , he turned right and began walking out of the village on the Brookend road . |
| 25 | ON THE morning of May 11th , John Patten , the education secretary , was said to be ‘ incandescent ’ at reports that John Major had bounced him into a climbdown on his plan for school tests for children aged seven and 14 . |
| 26 | I was mad with him , could have battered him into the ground I could if I was strong enough . ’ |
| 27 | His cheerful rubicund face was graver than usual , and when she had ushered him into the dining-room he began without preliminary : |