Example sentences of "which [verb] him into " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was , and clearly remained to the last days of his long life , a fairly severe obsessional-rigid , indecisive , racked with doubts and unable to rid himself of a penchant for rather down-market women which led him into a series of miserable relationships . |
| 2 | THE wayward Marquess of Blandford last night claimed it was a lost love which led him into drug addiction . |
| 3 | First is the excitement of the sense of calling ; second , the passionate and painful struggles in overcoming sin which bring him into a darkness which initially is without savour or delight ; third , the experience of light and comfort in the darkness which he describes as the work of Christ illuminating the soul " with schynynges " ( 27.98r. – 345 ) ; and fourth , the full light and bliss of heaven which this light in the darkness anticipates . |
| 4 | Typical of microscopic work might be W. C. Williamson 's work on the formation of bones and teeth in the 1850s , which got him into the Royal Society . |
| 5 | Here the testee is presented with a set of questions or checklists which steer him into trying to think carefully about his own interests . |
| 6 | Dostoevsky underwent a spiritual transformation in Siberia which turned him into the greatest of nineteenth-century writers , but Petrashevskii died there and was buried in unconsecrated ground in 1866 . |
| 7 | Earlier , Aindow told the court that he was hit on the left thigh by the side of the car , which knocked him into the side of road and possibly on to the kerb . |
| 8 | Pound was a bohemian figure , despite his Quaker origins , who espoused an anti-credit economic philosophy which thrust him into anti-Semitism . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | It was just that he had strange ideas which took him into bad company . |
| 11 | He applied cold poultices to the sufferer 's forehead , which sent him into a coma . |
| 12 | He took two steps which brought him into contact with me : he joined the ATC Squadron , and he saw to it that he did Fire-Watch duty on my nights . |
| 13 | At Oxford , influenced by H. B. Bulteel [ q.v. ] , he experienced an evangelical conversion which brought him into a circle of somewhat radical piety . |
| 14 | His subsequent progress inside the Corporation was rapid and distinctive — from the external services in Bush House to Canada again , this time as BBC representative from 1956 to 1959 ; back to Bush House as head of external broadcasting administration ; on to Broadcasting House as the BBC 's secretary ( 1963–6 ) , a post of varying status and influence at different times in the history of the BBC , but during the regime of the director-general , Sir Hugh Greene , who had personally selected Curran for the job , a key post drawing him into discussions of policy , often highly controversial policy , as well as of administration ; back again to Bush House as director of external services ( 1967–9 ) , which brought him into close touch with government ; and on Greene 's retirement , becoming , to his considerable surprise , director-general himself in April 1969 . |
| 15 | In 1905 he published Studies in Colonial Nationalism , the book which brought him into public notice . |
| 16 | With Maurice Thompson and Samuel Moyer [ qq.v. ] he was involved in trading ventures with West Africa , which brought him into competition with the East India Company , but he went on to become the company 's deputy governor in 1657 and its governor in 1659 . |
| 17 | However , with the ascendancy of the conservative faction in the 1540s , Rudd began to achieve a modest prominence , being nominated clerk of the closet , which brought him into close personal contact with Henry VIII . |
| 18 | In 1533 , the Bishop became involved with the Holy Maid of Kent , with her visions and threats against King Henry VIII , and also along with his friend Sir Thomas More with the Bishops ' stand against the King over his divorce and subsequent marriage to Anne Boleyn , which brought him into trouble with the King . |
| 19 | He lost the protracted litigation with the Queen and this could have been a factor amongst those which persuaded him into treasonable activity later which cost the worthy earl his head ! |
| 20 | Leslie Brent was in Dovercourt for three weeks before going to Bunce Court , a happy chance which put him into the most favoured category of child refugees . |
| 21 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
| 22 | Gavin can remember little about the savage attack which put him into the John Radcliffe Hospital . |
| 23 | More than £2m was invested in Teddy Sheringham from Nottingham Forest , who responded with 28 goals , which forced him into the England squad . |
| 24 | But Taylor will have noted that there is much more to Atkinson 's game now than the blistering pace which launched him into league football with Ipswich Town six years ago . |
| 25 | That the son turned out to be all but six and a half feet tall at the age of thirteen and went through school and university wielding a subversive wit which catapulted him into the West End and the beginnings of real fame in his early twenties , seems almost in bad taste , very embarrassing indeed , certainly uncalled for and probably best left undiscovered . |