Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [adv prt] of [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 2 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 3 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 4 | GOALKEEPER Stephen Pears goes into hospital tomorrow for an operation on a cheekbone injury that has ruled him out of an international debut next week . |
| 5 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 6 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 7 | It is simply going to drive him out of a livelihood , and increases the amount of consumer junk left around in lane and layby . |
| 8 | And three-year-old Alex has his loving grandparents , Andrew and Monica , to help guide him out of the darkness towards normality . |
| 9 | In contrast to this emphasis of the New Testament writers , much of the stress on the Spirit today dishonours Jesus , tends to squeeze him out of the picture , and infers that allegiance to Jesus is only the lower reaches of the Christian life , the heights of which belong to the Holy Spirit . |
| 10 | A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud . |
| 11 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 12 | It was in the corresponding match last season that Marshall sustained the knee ligament damage which threatened to put him out of the game . |
| 13 | Yanto could not recollect ever having seen him out of a boiler suit . |
| 14 | ‘ The League should have kicked him out of the game , and the PFA have not done enough to get back the money owed to men like David Howell . |
| 15 | He always felt honoured to have been chosen , because if she had n't been comfortable with him she would have worked him out of the job long ago with little finesse . |
| 16 | Could n't you have kept him out of the way ? ’ |
| 17 | The scrum half has recovered from the injury which would have kept him out of the postponed Durham Cup tie against Horden on Wednesday . |
| 18 | But in 1132 he was back as chancellor , though he never aspired to the influence of his earlier days , and the more sober ecclesiastics of the court , in alliance with the papacy , managed to keep him out of a bishopric . |
| 19 | The public pretend to love him out of the goodness of their hearts . |
| 20 | ‘ Will she manage to get him out of the USA ? ’ |
| 21 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 22 | The father , thinking it was some foolish notion she had taken to have him out of the boat , took no notice of her frantic signs , but she would not let him go , and dragged him with almost superhuman effort out of the boat . |
| 23 | If this is the case he will run a big race for trainer Noel Meade who was forced to take him out of the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham . |
| 24 | The woman who had let him out of the darkness of the birth-cave into the light . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Charles ’ had been friendly ever since Hazards Ltd had got him out of a jam in the D Saceur affair . |
| 26 | ‘ Of course he would n't take a bribe from you , or anyone , come to that , and especially someone trying to bribe him out of the country because of a woman — one he happens to love very much . ’ |
| 27 | We were warned to keep him out of the bedrooms , and for days we resisted the howls and barks and pneumatic drill impersonations . |
| 28 | Having grabbed the idea of the airline with both hands , Branson was now trying to squeeze him out of the operation altogether . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been trying to get him out of the pram to get him ready for nursery but not now . |
| 30 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |