Example sentences of "him into his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Athelstan , still feeling depressed after his visit to Hob 's wife , ignored the coroner and pushed by him into his small , two-roomed house . |
| 2 | He was confronted , in fact , by a farm labourer , who helped him into his small cottage and offered him a cup of tea . |
| 3 | Dragging himself through the daily routine which gets him into his beige-toned synthetic fibres and out of his neo-neo house , he roars off in his Jag ( number plate , VIC 100 ) , fag in mouth , Carly Simon on cassette , ready to take on the world . |
| 4 | ROKER flop John Colquhoun has revealed how terrace taunts stung him into his best performance for Sunderland . |
| 5 | He chose a way of loving which was so outrageous and costly that only a few friends could follow him into his dark night of the soul . |
| 6 | It could yet follow him into his political career . |
| 7 | This realisation is already expressed in the bible story of Paradise , providing the occasion for the concept of original sin , as well as the Eastern belief in Karma , equivalent to a debt that has to be paid , which the individual brings with him into his present life . |
| 8 | He reminded her that it was kindness , as she well knew , that had got him into his present pickle . |
| 9 | Dr John Foley would have been proud to drive his eldest son up to Earlsfort Terrace and wave him into his first day at university . |
| 10 | But when they brought him up into the higher reaches of the Warden 's Tower and shut him into his new prison he was stupefied to find it all they had claimed . |
| 11 | The effort he had put into creating another character , a Daniel Miller , would have turned in upon him and transformed him into his own words . |
| 12 | Sackville took him into his own service as secretary , and secured his return to the Parliament of 1601 for the Sussex borough of Steyning . |
| 13 | Rachel put her bag down beside her new desk and chair , then followed him into his own office . |
| 14 | Such a nature had carried him into his tortuous business of ruling , where he had found himself responsible for people who owned neither ships nor battle-gear , nor skill , nor health , nor ability . |
| 15 | The well-to-do uncle treated John as a son and took him into his expanding business . |
| 16 | At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man . |
| 17 | Rachel got to her feet , pen and notepad in hand , forcing herself to keep her disintegrating professional cool as she followed him into his luxurious modern office overlooking the city . |