Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] him into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 2 | And er I gets him down and I gets him into the stable , and I gets all the clothes off him and he gets into a bag , a bran bag , more bags and lay down and covered himself , and I hung his clothes round the boiler fire . |
| 3 | I followed him into a small room beside the kitchen . |
| 4 | I followed him into a small room . |
| 5 | As I followed him into the little building I smiled to myself . |
| 6 | I chivvied him into a quick shower . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | One gate that he could open himself let him into a front garden patrolled by two Dobermans , but he was okay with dogs because there had always been dogs at his mother 's home , and at his grandparents ' home . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He persuaded Reid 's wife , actress Dorothy Davenport , to sign Wally 's commitment papers which put him into a private sanatorium . |
| 11 | She flung him into the Grand Canal . |
| 12 | She led him into the comfortable drawing-room at the front of the house , and disappeared . |
| 13 | She led him into the semicircular hall with its high vaulted ceiling from which a chandelier threw its bright light over the pale lemon and white walls . |
| 14 | Then gradually , imperceptibly , she led him into the trickier terrain of the past . |
| 15 | She followed him into a tiny , brightly lit room that was suffused with the most delectable scents of cooking . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She demoted him into a mere irritant with popping eyes , a frog . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | A blast of warm smoky air struck Meredith 's face as she preceded him into the one large room inside . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She took him into a small office with a window overlooking the harbour . |
| 23 | Justus Lipsius was the classical scholar who introduced him into the military sphere . |
| 24 | She escorted him into an inner office where a young man sat behind a very large desk . |
| 25 | She ushered him into a stuffy little room lit by bright spotlights . |
| 26 | She pushed him into the right positions . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Now I took him into my home , it was an extremely costly thing to do , and eventually we got him into the Chiltern Clinic . |
| 29 | He rose and staggered out and we followed him into a stinking alleyway a short distance from the tavern . |
| 30 | Rachel found herself following him into the social club and a few minutes later when they were both seated with their drinks in the same window-seat where they had sat before she said , ‘ So what 's your connection with Conway House ? ’ |