Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] he into " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not want to add to his troubles or to lead him into more danger . |
| 2 | There 's no proof , and … and she 's fond of him and she would n't do anything to hurt him or get him into trouble . |
| 3 | There was never any need for her to take the initiative or inveigle him into bed . |
| 4 | ‘ So that you can overpower Jimmy , or talk him into giving you a gun back ? |
| 5 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 6 | Gabriel had broken his apprentice 's bond and no one had hanged him or flogged him or thrown him into prison . |
| 7 | It was the same mentality that led him into the folie de grandeur of thinking that , having been a champion driver , he was also fitted to run a motor-racing team — indeed , to think that he was better fitted to do so than those for whom he had worked and driven . |
| 8 | It was not wickedness that led him into crime but a cheerfully impulsive nature and an almost complete lack of reasoning power . |
| 9 | In referring once again to employee share ownership schemes , an idea that got him into trouble after the last election , he signalled that he still believed in the ‘ popular socialism ’ that he had advanced in those days as the answer to Thatcher 's ‘ popular capitalism ’ . |
| 10 | It was probably the affairs of the East India trade that propelled him into politics ; with the ‘ old ’ East India company still in existence , many members of the ‘ new ’ company sought election to Parliament to protect the company 's interests . |
| 11 | What was it about Judith that threw him into such confusion now , as then ? |
| 12 | Rather than follow him into this detail , it is more important here to underline an important general characteristic which Hobbes says the claim has . |
| 13 | Once all the books on the bottom shelf were used to make three gigantic pyramids that sent him into a fit of despair . |
| 14 | He 'd never felt skin like that , velvet skin , warm and slippery skin that absorbed him into her . |
| 15 | " It is not a job that brings him into the public eye , but , believe me , he is one of the most trusted officers of the bank . " |
| 16 | Corbett stared at him and looked away , the tension between them broken by the Pictish leader who took Thomas by the hand , like a child with a parent , and led him into the largest house , beckoning Corbett to follow them . |
| 17 | Do come in , ’ she said , and led him into the dining-room . |
| 18 | She took his hand and led him into the sitting room . |
| 19 | The tiny woman took Tuppe by the hand and led him into the darkness at the rear of the shop . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's this way , ’ Ashley said , and led him into the house . |
| 21 | If she 'd had the power at that moment she would have reached out and crushed him into the carpet . |
| 22 | Cameron wondered if it would be possible to raise the matter with him again , and bring him into a more realistic frame of mind , before the soldiers came . |
| 23 | The doctor suggested I give Chris a cold drink or an ice cream , and bring him into hospital if he got worse . |
| 24 | And to her amazement Nails got up without a word , dived into the pool , came up alongside Hoomey and started correcting his stroke , bawling into his ear and galvanizing him into twice the effort . |
| 25 | The Varga Plants , a wound from whose thorns replaces a man 's thoughts with an overwhelming urge to kill and turns him into one of themselves , grow naturally only on the planet whose laboratories have developed them : Skaro , home of the Daleks . |
| 26 | Yet though the witches bring his already existing ambition out they can not be completely blamed for his downfall and degeneration as it this , his own ambition which eventually takes him over and turns him into a psychopath , killing merely out of feeling and without reason . |
| 27 | ‘ We never got any recognition for it , but Vidal 's short , geometric look , which made his name and got him into the news , had never before been seen . |
| 28 | She opened her arms as if to gather him into them but he simply grinned and walked straight past her . |
| 29 | His subsequent career has been a switchback which reached its nadir five years ago , when Thomas Hearns produced a devastating right to the chin to knock him out and send him into retirement . |
| 30 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |