Sentence examples for ropes him into from inspiring English sources

Milo, a Stanford graduate, is putting together an Internet startup with a bunch of his buddies when Winston summons him to NURV's sprawling Oregon campus and ropes him into a Faustian bargain.

Having had a brush with the law — his older brother ropes him into stealing a car, and he's thrown out of the house by his mother — he is befriended by a public defender, Sandy Cohen Peter Gallagherr), who takes him home to his family.

Lennie needs some clandestine errands run in order to make her escape to Cuba, and Kay is enthusiastic about putting the thrills of action into her life or, rather, into her and Sid's lives, because she ropes him into the plot as well.

Yet, when it's Barry's birthday, the cast and crew throw him a little bash on set, complete with festive music — and Barry's costumer, a flamboyantly lively middle-aged woman, ropes him into a jubilant, spontaneous dance that turns Margherita's film into a virtual musical and brings out the energies that are repressed in the making of her movie.

"Can I use the expression 'Who roped him into this?' " Cole asked.

He invited him to discuss the script with Goldman and roped him into the camera tests.

But why should his suffering deter a Hollywood producer from roping him into a publicity campaign to sell a movie?

Connie loves Nick, but the next demonstration of that love is to rope him into robbing a bank.

Ted agrees when Don tries to rope him into the future business: "You're so much better at painting a picture".

"I was in love with the idea that we could, in a way, rope him into the narrative of the show," Mr. Weiner said.

I'll remember him like this: one evening I called him at the president's residence to rope him into a mission I thought he'd support.