Example sentences of "me into [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it seems politic to you to end our affair now that you realise you 're suspected — found out — whereas it did n't seem to matter while the evidence of your passion in bed could lull me into accepting that there was no one else . |
| 2 | All you had to do was to hold up the negotiations until I got desperate and then bully me into authorizing the Japanese deal on the pretext of raising money to pay for my release ! |
| 3 | Such a peculiar coincidence startles me into remembering that I have something to write for Esquire . |
| 4 | He talked me into staying two more days , and thus three days passed before I discovered that Masquerade was missing . |
| 5 | He frightened me into staying silent . ’ |
| 6 | She bribed me with pasta and blackmailed me into writing a synopsis on my last night in Hawaii . |
| 7 | On the other hand if I am in a drama experience my own actions and things about me may trap me into believing I am in an actual event . |
| 8 | They are lulling me into believing that they suspect nothing , so that they can catch us together . |
| 9 | So I let them bully me into taking them round . |
| 10 | I 'm not even sure I should be letting you talk me into taking the phetam to Fraxilly rather than the FedPol . |
| 11 | He said : ‘ They tried to batter me into taking the job , then rang me at home and tried again . |
| 12 | ‘ I somehow do n't think you 'd manipulate me into discussing religion with a real-live rabbi . |
| 13 | ‘ He did n't try to talk me into acting as a romantic go-between . ’ |
| 14 | And he conned me into posting his mail ! |
| 15 | It 's only just dawned on me , he conned me into posting his mail . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | ‘ If this is some trick to manoeuvre me into allowing anything to develop there … ’ he threatened . |
| 18 | Mueller is the oldest , the most successful and probably the best known of all currently active downhillers , so the sight of him volunteering to do the donkey work in a one-horse FIS race was enough to humble me into removing my skis and following him , along with 138 other racers ! |
| 19 | He tricked me into telling him . |
| 20 | ‘ You ca n't scare me into telling you what you want to hear ! ’ |
| 21 | Then the two of you pitched up together in Zimbabwe , and it shocked me into facing realities . |
| 22 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |
| 23 | The acquisition of a new Wilson racquet fooled me into thinking I could teach Adam how to play . |
| 24 | ‘ You had no right , no right at all , to cheat me like that , to con me into thinking I could trust you . |
| 25 | ‘ So , Rosie , like a fool I let him manipulate me into working twice as hard as I imagined I would . |
| 26 | In November 1974 , it was he who talked me into going along for the audition for ‘ New faces ’ at the Blue Angel nightclub in Leeds . |
| 27 | ‘ Daddy was always trying to use the money as a stick to beat me into changing my way of life . |
| 28 | His face was stricken and he was mouthing the lyrics and making Shirley Bassey gestures in an effort to will me into continuing . |
| 29 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |
| 30 | And then he likewise tricked me into employing you as her tutor in order that he could continue to divert her from her studies . ’ |