Example sentences of "had [vb pp] him into a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stared at her almost angrily , as if she had trapped him into a confidence he would have preferred not to have made . |
| 2 | The politicians had trapped him into a game played by their rules . |
| 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | They had made him into a gunman . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She had dragged him into a room that turned out to be empty . |
| 8 | All the same , I feel he found himself disappointed as well as surprised ; for his study had inveigled him into a trap . |
| 9 | Kate had followed him into a big sitting-room , plain , almost spartan in its simplicity . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Maud had put him into a small hotel near the street where he was born , telling him to absorb the atmosphere . |
| 12 | Hugh 's prompting , perhaps intentionally , had put him into a difficult position . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He said they had forced him into a car and he had heard the lorry start up behind him . |
| 15 | 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 . |