Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] into [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people who suffer if they are broken are not the owners , the shareholders or the board of directors , but those who work in the industry — people who have given their lives to that industry , built up the companies ' assets and made them into going concerns attractive for privatisation . |
| 2 | This led them into feeling that airlines and motor car manufacturers were their main competitors since they took passengers away . |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | In this chapter , I have outlined how a distinct sociological perspective led me into asking particular questions about child abuse , some of the ways in which these questions were explored and some of the insights yielded by such an approach . |
| 5 | He got me into pickpocketing , doing cheques and all them kind of things . |
| 6 | I 've tricked them into working for me . |
| 7 | ‘ The Parliamentary system is n't there to give people a say in how the country is run but to delude them into thinking they have some power . |
| 8 | Most importantly , when you meet work colleagues and friends , your springy step must be able to bluff them into believing that you could have managed two laps of the course . |
| 9 | Yet Account Executives ( AEs ) push them into investing in futures capital they can not afford to lose by underplaying the extent of the gamble , emphasising the potential gain . |
| 10 | He said : ‘ They tried to batter me into taking the job , then rang me at home and tried again . |
| 11 | Manipulating people by tricking them into doing something which is against their best interests is clearly bad . |
| 12 | He tricked me into telling him . |
| 13 | ‘ He tricked me into employing him to look after my boats simply in order to gain access to my cousin . |
| 14 | And then he likewise tricked me into employing you as her tutor in order that he could continue to divert her from her studies . ’ |
| 15 | He invited neighbours to meet me , cajoled them into opening their houses , and sent word on my behalf down every tendril of the Goan grapevine . |
| 16 | One way of ‘ stealing ’ another company 's loyal users is to tempt them into using your product by way of a massive discount . |
| 17 | As new treatments and technologies proliferate and new needs are identified these demands escalate , but even as early as 1954 , the then Minister for Health , Enoch Powell , discovered that it became a " positive ethical duty for ( providers ) to beseige and bombard the government and force or shame them into providing more money … and then more again " ( Powell 1966 ) . |
| 18 | We knew the German signals for the night , so we tricked them into holding fire until we were about a mile out , then all hell broke loose . |
| 19 | Three years ago we trained foragers along a lake and tricked them into dancing to indicate to potential recruit bees in the hive that the food was in the middle of the lake . |
| 20 | ( Grabbing the sleeve ) Oh that 's gon na entice you into buying a record is n't it ? — Free Orb window sticker with every purchase … |
| 21 | ‘ He 's just trying to provoke you into giving an indiscreet answer that he can misquote … ’ |
| 22 | I would like to attempt to provoke you into asking what can be done with what we 've got . |
| 23 | I could not prevent my father from tricking him into marrying me instead of Rachel . |
| 24 | How glad she was that Tom had finally badgered her into going . |
| 25 | In his own way he was as dangerous as Marcus — had n't he already trapped her into staying with him longer than she deemed either necessary or wise ? |
| 26 | She had never intended to become involved in this kind of conversation with the soldier , but somehow he had trapped her into replying . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | His lips continued to hold her captive , weaving some dark spell around her that seduced her senses and lured her into sharing a virgin part of herself with this man … this man , with whom , of all the men she had ever met , she wanted least to share these secrets of herself . |
| 29 | Detective Sergeant Mick Ornellus , of Clacton CID , said the two men either offered or already had carried out a number of jobs for her and tricked her into parting with the money . |
| 30 | The motive was to unhinge her completely — to provoke her into making a political miscalculation , such as reintroducing internment , in the hope of reaping a public relations reward . |