Example sentences of "[verb] him into [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite , realistically , plenty of opportunity , there is no illicit sex between Nicholas and Alison until the pleasure of their union can be enhanced by Nicholas truly having replaced John by tricking him into a contrived " absence " . |
| 2 | It was quite common for an affluent client to insist : " I 'm only interested in BES schemes , although a skilful dealer would tempt him into a short-term punt in a stock outside the BES . |
| 3 | In his last years , Gresham 's fame as a magician drew him into the sordid court intrigues surrounding the divorce of Robert Devereux , third Earl of Essex [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | The self-inflicted pain goaded him into a furious spasm , but as he strained and thrashed against the wicker walls in the darkness all he achieved was the sense that the basket had not yielded a millimetre . |
| 5 | Warne 's exploits in the Old Trafford Test , when he grabbed eight wickets , have catapulted him into the Top 10 of the Coopers and Lybrand Ratings , where he is within sight of another Aussie scourge of England , absent medium-fast bowler Bruce Reid . |
| 6 | Still , the pain of the bite , like white-hot tongs , drove him into a new fury ; battering fists , to again fell Anton . |
| 7 | And Price 's win lifted him into the top ten for the first time . |
| 8 | The victory , the 18th of Kite 's career , was worth $198,000 and lifted him into the top spot on this year 's US Tour money-winning list with $292,361 . |
| 9 | The arrangement would bring him into the same stable as Hackett menswear , and people who mix in such circles believe that Lagerfeld , who designs for Chanel and Fendi , will also work for Chloe , Dunhill 's fashion label . |
| 10 | It has made him into a bitter man and I quite understand that bitterness . |
| 11 | Would you have made him into the working-class Christopher Fry ? |
| 12 | erm the managerial action which is available for you , t to take him out of there and put him into a different post , because he 's not capable of doing . |
| 13 | But I am glad that I provoked him into an unqualified withdrawal of his disgraceful unjustified comments . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Luckily , though , his adventures had already turned him into a local hero , and his bosses were only too happy to allow him to devote as much time as he wanted to his art . |
| 16 | The huge international interest in Brightness which followed his escape to freedom in Turkish waters , has turned him into a valuable commodity . |
| 17 | Carrie was hard put to it and she had little time to talk with him , but it was not long before Billy turned up at the cafe eager to see his friend and Carrie directed him into the back room . |
| 18 | Now the row has burst into the open round the broad shoulders of Monsignor Bruce Kent , threatening to blast the career of that redoubtable cleric by forcing him into an invidious choice between his cloth and his commitment to the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament ( CND ) . |
| 19 | Yet , when one of the local farmers , grinding the bony soil of a resisting field , felt the earth give way and drop him into a narrow grave , and discovered there a store of gravegoods disposed around the human remains , the interval of the centuries seemed to close . |
| 20 | Behind him , lightning flared , turning him into a stark silhouette against the windows ; flooding the reception with white light . |
| 21 | Not only did she need Vitor 's goodwill now , but she could need it some time in the future ; so turning him into an outright no-holds-barred enemy was shortsighted … and potentially dangerous . |
| 22 | She did not try to soothe him , but she took him away from Skid Row , pulling him into a kingsize bed with freshly-laundered sheets . |
| 23 | But whisky turned him into a savage bully . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The trials of his childhood and teenage years turned him into the perfect Prince , but they did not alter his fundamental nature . |
| 26 | ‘ He died cursing your father for trapping him into a loveless marriage , ’ he growled . |
| 27 | An elderly office boy wordlessly showed him into a narrow , bumf-heaped office that contained , with difficulty , seven people . |
| 28 | She seemed inclined to give Harry short shrift , but at his mention of Heather 's name , she relented and showed him into the front room , where a meagre measure of calm and quiet prevailed . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Finally , after a long desperate battle with her conscience , she agreed , after he had had a small heart attack , to put him into a local hospital . |