Example sentences of "[verb] him into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ 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 . |
| 32 | ‘ You 're in here , ’ Ven remarked , taking up her case and heading for the door on the left of the French windows — and as she followed him into a pleasant bedroom , ‘ With luck , by the time you 've unpacked , the waiter will be here with some tea . ’ |
| 33 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 34 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 35 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 36 | Still a little numb from shock , Juliet followed him into a huge hall , all gilt objects , velvet hangings , mirrors and oil-paintings . |
| 37 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 38 | He opened the door by his desk , and they followed him into a large room filled with dark , solid furniture . |
| 39 | He ignored her enquiry so she hauled herself out , slipped on a long T-shirt and followed him into the other room . |
| 40 | She followed him into the other room and sat down on the sofa to pour out while Penry put a match to the kindling in the stove . |
| 41 | Mosley did find kindred spirits in the Labour movement , some of whom followed him into the New Party and a smaller proportion into fascism , but although the party conference and the Labour movement in general were sympathetic to his practical suggestions , the Labour government rejected his proposals . |
| 42 | When Michele had retrieved the crutch from the back seat Luce followed him into the bare concrete building and waited while he knocked at the door of one of the ground-floor flats . |
| 43 | She rose obediently and followed him into the small counselling-room across the corridor from the nurses ' station , relieved to remember that Deana Davenport had the day off today . |
| 44 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 45 | Dougal followed him into the little garden . |
| 46 | ‘ I 'll live with it , ’ Luke answered somewhat grimly , waiting for her to precede him into an empty lift as the door slid open . |
| 47 | Not only is having had some form of employment considered to increase a job seeker 's attractiveness to an employer and diminish the chances of a devaluation of his work skills , but temporary placings themselves can turn into permanent ones , either because the temporary position is made permanent or because the employer becomes acquainted with the capabilities of the temporary worker and recruits him into a vacant permanent position.1 Special temporary employment schemes such as the Community Programme are often justified in this manner , the suggestion being that they raise the chances of the long-term unemployed finding jobs some threefold ( Turner , 1985 ) . |
| 48 | She wondered what experience had moulded him into the cynical man that he now was . |
| 49 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 50 | Hilary relaxed and gave a little self-satisfied smile , as if gratified to have stung him into a cheap retort . |
| 51 | But she has lured him into a giant press , through which she has crawled , and is just able to throw the switch . |
| 52 | She demoted him into a mere irritant with popping eyes , a frog . |
| 53 | It puzzled him into the New Year of 1961 that no one asked his opinion . |
| 54 | I grew up among the kind of communists and socialists who guided him into the working-class communities and who staff some of their struggles . |
| 55 | He turned back again to the pill-box and , as he began to run towards it , she shoved him into the empty channel on the seaward side of the Lock . |
| 56 | Naihe from Ka'u on the Big Island was so expert a surfer that his fellow chiefs grew jealous and plotted to lure him into a surfing contest in which he would die . |
| 57 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 58 | Neglect of them could throw him into a searing rage ; as when he discovered that a rest camp for troops out of the line had been placed within sound of the guns . |
| 59 | Diana has helped Charles by bringing him into the modern era , teasing him and leavening his spirits , and keeping him young and abreast of young people 's thinking . |
| 60 | Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic . |