Example sentences of "had [verb] him into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without a doubt it had been Greg 's backing which had propelled him into the big league ; without him , for all his talent , Hugo might have been trapped in small-time design and manufacture for ever . |
| 2 | As he had been invited to dine with Members afterwards , his secretary had booked him into The Howard Hotel , a few hundred yards from Parliament Square on the Victoria Embankment , overlooking the Tower of London to the east and the Houses of Parliament to the west . |
| 3 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 4 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |
| 5 | The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Modern society , he said , no longer required either the nineteenth-century intellectual or the ‘ perfect individual ’ of German classicism , but rather the citizen who was a member of a community , and whose education had turned him into a ‘ social being ’ . |
| 8 | She tried to brush aside memories of the eager , tiny child that Hank had been , a child who had adored his ugly , heavy-footed Ukrainian grandfather , a child who had screamed with rage at her when she had thrust him into the arms of an unknown babysitter or had forced him to play alone in the basement , until he became a silent , morose schoolboy . |
| 9 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 10 | He did not write well because he had learned his letters late in life and , though Lucille had made him into a much better reader , he was still clumsy with a pen or pencil . |
| 11 | In 1935 Louis Aragon proudly proclaimed to the world that his encounter with communism and the revolutionary society of the Soviet Union had transformed him into an entirely new man , had rejuvenated him , re-educated him , and in the process cured him of the social disease of his bourgeois class origins . |
| 12 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 13 | ‘ Several times more than once , ’ the Doctor said , the tone of his voice reflecting the numerous occasions on which Bernice had dragged him into the flea-pit cinema she 'd found in the TARDIS and insisted that he pay attention to the noir motifs and the semiotics of Double Indemnity . |
| 14 | Because of his language ability , Heydrich himself had pulled him into the Sicherheitsdienst , the SS security service , known as the SD . |
| 15 | He was Thorfinn 's first cousin , and his very revolt against his heritage had driven him into the arms of Siward and Durham . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 18 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 19 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 20 | Uncle Fred left four sons , two of whom had followed him into the Marines and a widow , Aunt May , who suffered from what was then referred to as shaking palsy . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | His feelings were cleansed of the poisons of revenge , contempt , self-hatred , envy and avarice which had worked him into a hellish turbulence of vicious thoughts . |
| 23 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 24 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He said they had forced him into a car and he had heard the lorry start up behind him . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 29 | His cheerful rubicund face was graver than usual , and when she had ushered him into the dining-room he began without preliminary : |