Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] him into [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rain had to choose whether to let him pass or lead him into the house and try to steer him away from the kitchen . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Once all the books on the bottom shelf were used to make three gigantic pyramids that sent him into a fit of despair . |
| 4 | " 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 . " |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Do come in , ’ she said , and led him into the dining-room . |
| 7 | She took his hand and led him into the sitting room . |
| 8 | The tiny woman took Tuppe by the hand and led him into the darkness at the rear of the shop . |
| 9 | ‘ It 's this way , ’ Ashley said , and led him into the house . |
| 10 | If she 'd had the power at that moment she would have reached out and crushed him into the carpet . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | I often have to get up with Graham , carry him into the living room and nurse him into the living room and nurse him on the armchair . |
| 15 | He went back for the President , lifting him from behind by both elbows and walking him into the shower with his boxer shorts and his sandals on . |
| 16 | Cut him out and slip him into the stocking so he peeps out of the top . |
| 17 | She thought again of the clever pastry-cook who baked her man to her liking , and of La Carmellina , who lost her true love when he climbed a cherry tree into the clouds and found himself in the lair of the sorceress Zenaida — Zenaida , who had been robbed of sleep by the curse of another fairy , and had stolen Carmellina 's love away and changed him into a songbird . |
| 18 | But a combination of factors , including a high proportion of broken or at least deteriorating homes and single-parent families , an absence of parent-child contact due to migration and possibly compounded by the necessity of devoting excessive time to earning a living and , as I will argue shortly , a distorted appreciation of the parent 's function vis-à-vis education crystallize to release the black youth from the influence of his parents and jettison him into a world in which his peers , with whom he shares the common experience of being black in a white society , are the dominant forces . |
| 19 | It was this same Spirit that drove Jesus off into the desert to be tempted after his baptism , that pioneered the mission of the early Church often in the most bizarre , unexpected and ‘ unorthodox ’ ways ; that gripped a man like Philip , removed him from a flourishing evangelistic campaign in Samaria and drove him into the desert because there was one man who needed his help . |
| 20 | With a hopeless head for finance and a desperate desire to befriend , Lear was only too willing to receive the attentions of John Gould , then in his mid-20s , and to initiate him into the secrets of the new technique of lithography and the art of ornithological illustration . |
| 21 | At the churchyard stile the priest would meet him in ‘ reverential pomp ’ and conduct him into the Church to attend divine service . |
| 22 | His cheerful London accent seemed to bring her back down to earth , and she hurried to unlock the bolts and let him into the hallway . |
| 23 | At his first rehearsal of Peter Pan , almost before Bunny had finished introducing him to the rest of the cast , Dotty had taken him proprietorially by the arm and strolled him into the wings . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Cross and sore , I got straight back on and trotted him into the fence again . |
| 27 | A bolt was drawn back from inside then the door opened fractionally before a hand reached out and hauled him into the room . |
| 28 | He requests that I accompany him and pipe him into the restaurant . |
| 29 | A very spruce maid welcomed him and showed him into the Bishop 's drawing-room . |
| 30 | 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 . |