Example sentences of "out [verb] him " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Adjutant hastens out to see him to his car , which is waiting on the edge of the square . |
| 2 | The battlements offered small danger : such was the slope of the wall that a man would have had to lean far out to see him . |
| 3 | Beefy is a hero to the thousands that turn out to see him through rain and shine as he marches down the south coast . |
| 4 | When he lectured at Harvard in this year , policemen had to control the crowds who came out to see him , and loudspeakers were set up for those who could not get into the auditorium . |
| 5 | He walked down the hill in Haworth with a bag of his best paintings on his back , and everyone in the village came out to see him go . |
| 6 | His housekeeper came out to greet him . |
| 7 | She strolled out to greet him . |
| 8 | Corbett dismounted slowly , ordering Ranulf to look after the horses as he went to meet the chamberlain , who had come out to greet him . |
| 9 | John Baille 's sons were warned they were going to get sorted out , and Mr McCubbin 's own drugs distributor George Larkins was warned he was out to kill him . |
| 10 | Ralph , without the wise word of Piggy , does not realise until near the end that ‘ sharpening his stick at both ends ’ means that Jack 's hunters are out to kill him as he believes that they are not capable of murder . |
| 11 | She sat down beside him , instinctively putting her arm out to support him , but he jerked forward with a sharp gasp , and she saw the brown lines of dried blood across the back of his shirt . |
| 12 | There is now a good chance that he will be beaten in the run-off next Sunday unless he can persuade enough first-round abstentionists to turn out to support him . |
| 13 | Although Trofin had been an ally of Ceauşescu against the old guard in the mid-1960s , in an act of rare solidarity , perhaps even comradeship , Draghici , Bârladeanu , Brucan , Corneliu Manescu , and others turned out to mourn him at his funeral . |
| 14 | McLeish reached out to steady him and the man looked up at him , unseeingly . |
| 15 | There was a strong babble of concerned voices , a thicket of hands reaching out to steady him , but Li Shai Tung was conscious only of the way his skin stung as if it were stretched too tightly over his bones — how his eyes smarted as if hot water had been thrown into them . |
| 16 | After travelling to the little mining village and speaking to Brown 's mother , ‘ I then set out to find him , having been told that he had gone to the pit with a barrow to fetch some coal . |
| 17 | Meanwhile in Egypt Isis had heard what Seth had done to her husband and in great distress she set out to find him . |
| 18 | He would have stayed there until dark again , but Ratagan and Bicker came out to find him . |
| 19 | As Lefevre drew his sword , the whip snaked out to catch him full in the face , ripping open his cheek from temple to jaw . |
| 20 | The Brigadier 's always out to catch him at it . |
| 21 | Jezrael lashed a hand out to punch him hard on the jaw . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , he thought Theo unduly alarmist in warning him that women like her were out to fleece him . |
| 23 | Alfonso at once set out to meet him , sending a peremptory command to Rodrigo to join him . |
| 24 | And he dight himself full gallantly and well , and took with him many knights , both his own and of his kindred and of his friends , and he took also many new arms , and came to Valencia to the King with two hundred of his peers in arms , in festival guise ; and the King went out to meet him , and received him right well , and did him honour ; and at this were all the Counts displeased . |
| 25 | Both sides were now eager to come face to face , and as General Cope moved forward from Dunbar towards Edinburgh the Jacobite army moved out to meet him . |
| 26 | It pulled out to meet him , and he climbed in . |
| 27 | He was greatly aroused by his victories and , when he came to Emain , thrice 50 women , all naked , went out to meet him . |
| 28 | At all other times , Evelyn and I rushed out to meet him if we heard that he was in the Gallery , so stimulating was his company . |
| 29 | The sergeant comes out to meet him . |
| 30 | Billowing sheets of material ballooned out to meet him : the edges of the hole , deceptively soft looking but with lethal edges . |