Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] into [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 2 | This led them into feeling that airlines and motor car manufacturers were their main competitors since they took passengers away . |
| 3 | I 've come to Saint Mary 's and I 've been here er just over a year now and erm Rosie collared me into speaking to you |
| 4 | In this chapter , I have outlined how a distinct sociological perspective led me into asking particular questions about child abuse , some of the ways in which these questions were explored and some of the insights yielded by such an approach . |
| 5 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |
| 6 | He tricked me into telling him . |
| 7 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |
| 8 | And then he likewise tricked me into employing you as her tutor in order that he could continue to divert her from her studies . ’ |
| 9 | He invited neighbours to meet me , cajoled them into opening their houses , and sent word on my behalf down every tendril of the Goan grapevine . |
| 10 | We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose . |
| 11 | Three years ago we trained foragers along a lake and tricked them into dancing to indicate to potential recruit bees in the hive that the food was in the middle of the lake . |
| 12 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 13 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |
| 14 | It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick . |
| 15 | We put the Wallabies under a lot of pressure and harried them into making a lot of mistakes . |
| 16 | My final choice from last week 's ‘ Independent ’ was the example that provoked me into attempting this subject in the first place . |
| 17 | Luckily he had photocopied it before he provoked her into doing this . |
| 18 | In other circumstances she would have been more than willing to engage in this conversation herself , for it was one she had frequently enjoyed ; she liked Otto , she had always mildly fancied that he liked her , she was amused by the offhand continental gallantries with which he interspersed , absent-mindedly , the rigour of his argument ; but tonight she was tired , her eyes were closing , she had had four hours of party already , had not enjoyed the Hargreaves drama , had not enjoyed her talks with Ivan Warner and Teddy Lazenby , had been polite enough for long enough , and wanted to go home ; so stood at Brian 's elbow , dully , a reproachful wife , slightly annoyed that neither of them took much notice of her , as Otto invoked the name of Max Weber , a name which meant nothing to her at all , a name which excluded her , exhausted her , and provoked her into prodding , yet again , but this time successfully , Brian 's arm , and murmuring of baby-sitter Sharon , who was only sixteen . |
| 19 | So I suppose I led you into thinking the exact opposite — that I had a swinging social life . ’ |
| 20 | Of course , it was Genesis that got you into playing bass . |
| 21 | You terrorized those children , you bullied them into getting a wedding-dress for you . " |
| 22 | I had been reaching up to put packets and tins into one of the wall cupboards , but this startled me into turning . |
| 23 | You bullied me into becoming your girlfriend , so I had little choice but to obey , but now I 've grown up . |
| 24 | Walsh , with Hayling fronting the show to add that important touch of Cambridge class , threw himself into raising the matching funding required by GLEB . |
| 25 | No longer ‘ Mr Madonna ’ , he threw himself into filming Judgement in Berlin and Casualties of War . |
| 26 | ‘ When I bullied you into accepting my terms to get you out of gaol , my only concern was reaching Athens in time for my meeting . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Trapped you into playing a part in an orgy ? ’ |
| 28 | His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report . |
| 29 | So for a while , the President of the United States effectively had world power , there was no other power in the world who could stand up to the U S , er , after , after , World War One for one argument anyway , and I think Freud 's er , defence disposition would be , Woodrow Wilson was the man who came to Europe , saying he would bring a just peace for all , and went away leaving a total mess , and , and , Freud 's er argument in his book is , told us was , well , the mess er , was really Wilson 's own doing , and if it was his doing , what was it in his character that allowed him to er , si to on some Lloyd George , who bullied him into getting most of what they wanted . |
| 30 | She cosseted him , served his favourite dishes , bullied him into changing his clothes when he came in drenched from one of New York 's torrential showers . |