Example sentences of "him into [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Derek says he wo n't let his attackers intimidate him into moving away from the area . |
| 2 | Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain . |
| 3 | So they kept changing the man on the next machine , and until he could talk him into using the System , William 's grandad would have to lurch down machine alley every few minutes , heaving his stiff leg behind him like Long John Silver and cursing like his parrot . |
| 4 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 5 | Rod Morris was born in Southampton but his family kept moving around the country , and that continual movement is very likely the cause which has aggravated him into producing his latest body of work , ‘ Planes and Boats and Trains ’ , which was recently exhibited at Sir John Cass School of Art . |
| 6 | In order to cajole him into accepting the role , the British tandem of Peter Yates and John Mortimer were asked to fly out from London to Philadelphia , where the play was trying out . |
| 7 | Silverstein was given the task of approaching Douglas in an effort to entice him into accepting the part . |
| 8 | WHILE HANGING ten with the Beach Boys ' Dennis Wilson ( who described Charlie as ‘ the magician ’ ) , Manson managed to charm him into accepting one of his songs for the band 's '20/20 ’ LP . |
| 9 | Blessed for a military man with unusual fluency with the pen , Lugard brought to this task a literary energy and a crusading passion which seem to have mesmerized those who heard him into believing that a discovery of the first importance in the field of imperial administration had just been made . |
| 10 | If the adventurers can trick him into believing that , for example , his Master is in danger and they are here to help , then Gerd will be very eager to assist them , and he does know his way around the dungeons rather well . |
| 11 | The veneer of sophistication , her throw-away attitude of laissez-faire , had deceived him into believing she had shared his own amoral values . |
| 12 | ’ I had to push him into taking his annual leave . |
| 13 | Only the suggestion that his career , once eclipsed by hers , is now vastly brighter stings him into reacting . |
| 14 | He begins by flattering Brutus , in efforts to manipulate him into seeing his point of view . |
| 15 | His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report . |
| 16 | ‘ The Major Enigma ’ , by Penny Junor , to be published tomorrow claims series of bitter confrontations with Mrs Thatcher even spurred him into writing a letter of resignation . |
| 17 | It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick . |
| 18 | The sound of choking woke the boy next to him out of dreams of home , shocking him into knowing the hideous rocking hole where they lay . |
| 19 | In order to damp down monarchist hopes that it might now be possible to pressure him into resigning , Franco wrote to Don Juan on 2 December 1954 , telling him that power would not be transferred in Franco 's lifetime and that his successor would be bound by the guiding principles of the regime set up in 1939 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | I disdained the half-baked friends he chose , encouraged the good ones , pushed him into buying the right shoes and jackets , T-shirts and jeans , explained endlessly the use of ‘ could I ’ and ‘ may I ’ instead of ‘ give me ’ and ‘ I want ’ , the right way to make tea , the right way to use a fork and knife . |
| 22 | Dealers at Harvard Securities found it amusing to ring up a client at 8.20 am. and to interrupt his shaving , breakfasting , or love-making in order to press him into buying stock . |
| 23 | He seems to have allowed his awareness of the different native languages of Britain to lead him into defining Oswald 's Anglo-British imperium in excessive terms . |
| 24 | He was propositioned twice by ragged and wretched young women in the alleyways and a drunk rising up from a pile of papers frightened him into shouting aloud . |
| 25 | He had felt that he was in the presence of something that wished him harm ; some malign , unseen enemy who wanted to scare him into leaving . |
| 26 | It seemed improper somehow that someone like Tulagai , his motives suspect , should mock Siban , who had served the Khanate so well , and Alexei thought that he was sorry that he had goaded him into leaving . |
| 27 | Standing off-set can present a smaller target area to the opponent and , by forcing him to strike at an alternative area , can trap him into leaving himself wide open . |
| 28 | Andy remembers Paul Heaton ringing him to pester him into listening to The Housemartins ' demo , telling him , ‘ You 've got ta sign us , we 're brilliant . ’ |
| 29 | She waited for Jean , his girlfriend , to go to the Ladies , and then pounced , flirting madly and manoeuvring him into bartering with her that he would buy two whole strips if she would have a dance with him . |
| 30 | Here the testee is presented with a set of questions or checklists which steer him into trying to think carefully about his own interests . |