Example sentences of "[to-vb] he into a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Where there is possibly a meeting of minds between him and the government is in the desire not to release him into a political vacuum . |
| 4 | As we saw , the latter relation threatened to compromise the son 's masculinity and to force him into a passive , feminine relation to his mother which could result either in abject surrender , as in depression , or in defiant revolt , as in mania . |
| 5 | An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security . |
| 6 | However hard we try to make him into a literary archetype he remains firmly rooted in life , in nonliterary experience . |
| 7 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 8 | 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 . |