Example sentences of "[to-vb] him into [art] [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 | ‘ I 'll live with it , ’ Luke answered somewhat grimly , waiting for her to precede him into an empty lift as the door slid open . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | One group dismissed the Prime Minister 's offer as an attempt to co-opt him into the ruling Chart Thai party and thus disarm his independent political ambitions . |
| 5 | All the forceful tact Aunt Tossie possessed was needed to convince Dada that only champagne , the best champagne , would be appropriate to the occasion , and then to compel him into the stony depths of the cellars to root with Twomey along the half-empty bins where forgotten treasures spoiled . |
| 6 | Efforts to turn him into the new Olivier met a similar fate . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The only option , as far as the doctor was concerned , was to get him into the local hospital where he would be well looked after and out of sight for the time being . |
| 10 | He watched the young nun usher his two companions away and allowed Lady Amelia to take him into the small chamber , really no more than a cell with a table , stool and truckle bed . |
| 11 | Kneeling beside him , she tried , unsuccessfully , to push him into an upright position . |
| 12 | An attempt to lull him into a false sense of security . |
| 13 | Jackie was already on his feet , beckoning them to follow him into the starlit orchard . |
| 14 | However hard we try to make him into a literary archetype he remains firmly rooted in life , in nonliterary experience . |
| 15 | And 47-year-old Peter , who models himself on rock legend Elvis Presley , reckons he has the perfect record to make him into an all-round star — Bhingi Bajee Boogy . |
| 16 | A paper boy on his morning round was grabbed by a man who then tried to drag him into a waiting car . |
| 17 | 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 . |