Example sentences of "[vb past] him into [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Chris who prodded him into handing over to Patrick . |
| 2 | His wife Glenda told us about it , and together we bullied him into writing this report . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She cosseted him , served his favourite dishes , bullied him into changing his clothes when he came in drenched from one of New York 's torrential showers . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Now here , lying on her bed while St Margaret held his dragon power in check , Maggie knew she had indulged Fenna too long , that she had fed him and petted him into overweening size and pride . |
| 8 | He managed to free himself only when an ambulance team talked him into trying to wiggle his fingers . |
| 9 | Then I talked him into going to London , as my plan requires . |
| 10 | Then , when I was eleven , he had a friend who owned a music store and he talked him into letting me work Saturdays . |
| 11 | Leonard talked him into giving him a lesson . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 14 | The advisory service Mr Llambias offers to firms , which covers areas relevant to running a successful practice such as advice on management structure and profit sharing , led him into dealing with mergers . |
| 15 | She wheedled him into letting her take the art class … for a consideration , of course . ’ |
| 16 | As Salman Rushdie perceptively remarked several years before Satanic Verses ( 1988 ) forced him into hiding to escape Muslim extremists outraged by his handling of the Prophet , realism can break your heart . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |