Example sentences of "[to-vb] him into [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 England , too , came to realise his significance which is why , since the Carling-Guscott partnership began , they have tried somehow to work him into the side .
2 She was going to edge him into a situation where it would be openly discourteous to refuse her , and nothing in his education or his upbringing had prepared him to be discourteous to anyone , least of all a woman .
3 But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself .
4 With a hopeless head for finance and a desperate desire to befriend , Lear was only too willing to receive the attentions of John Gould , then in his mid-20s , and to initiate him into the secrets of the new technique of lithography and the art of ornithological illustration .
5 It was the same when he walked ; he found that he was unsteady on his feet , and liked to have Nathan 's arm to help him into the carriage , as though it were a matter of ordinary courtesy from a younger man to an older .
6 Corbett suddenly grasped that the Bishop , like others , really believed he was here for other reasons and hoped to trap him into an admission .
7 Such was the excitement and focus on Maggie that in spite of Rose 's care to draw him into the conversation Moran began to feel out of it and grew bored .
8 So it 's common sense not to let him into every area of your life .
9 ‘ You look frozen , ’ she exclaimed , stepping back to let him into the hall .
10 Lucien wondered whether Walterkin had bribed her to let him into the cubicle .
11 Alex Household drew aside to let him into the flat .
12 Father-of-three Russell Telford , 29 , forced the pit-cage operator to let him into the lift .
13 Scott made no secret of Leonard 's ambiguities regarding law , and he sought to ease him into a position nearer to his own , of both lawyer and poet .
14 He pushed open the door and allowed Catherine to precede him into the studio .
15 A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow .
16 " I 'll have to run him into the passage .
17 The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover .
18 Cos I , I want to send him into the shed because I had him first
19 Was she the bait to lure him into a trap ?
20 After a while Rostov allowed the press to carry him into a corner .
21 LUCKY BREAK : A young Joe shows the style that was to turn him into the world champ
22 Prang your opponent with your lance to turn him into an egg .
23 There was no indication of any desire on the part of the appellant to change his behaviour , and it was considered unsafe to release him into the community .
24 And he must be mad to want to shunt him into the sidings before throwing him an England shirt again .
25 to get him into a home .
26 If he tries to change him into a Lillie or Hadlee , the boy might lose his greatest asset — to bowl successfully at pace .
27 This circumstance encourages me to hope that you may , if you have any opening for such a youth , be willing to take George , who is exceedingly desirous of obtaining the situation — or indeed any situation which through industry and a desire of improvement may hereafter insure a creditable independence ; but , above all things he seems to wish that it may be possible for you to take him into a situation similar to that which was offered to his Brother .
28 Well I mean there was an incidence where erm maybe a guy who did n't clean himself very often they would er a whole group of guys would find it funny to take him into the toilet erm fill a bath up with half with water , put bleach in it erm excrete in it , urinate in it and put him in hit , hit him with ba erm brushes , all kinds of stuff like that .
29 But , of course , I was determined to take him into the company and his first role for us was Tamino in Magic Flute .
30 ‘ Beside all that , ’ Robert said , ‘ I had to take him into the city , and he was n't real keen — I 'm sure he prefers Sydney to London . ’
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