Example sentences of "[adv prt] of he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd have liked to have cut the face off of him with a few choice words . |
| 2 | Only George knew that she had run off to Brighton with a salesman , but his mother had guessed as much and beaten her daughter 's whereabouts out of him with a belt . |
| 3 | Wild horses would scarcely drag this plan out of him at the hearings , even though all he had been shown was a wall map of Central America : nothing classified , no black programmes , no code words . |
| 4 | The scabby , festering evil went out of him at the touch of this holy place . |
| 5 | It makes , you know , if we we 're not gon na go bust just to get twelve months bloody work out of him on a service contract ! |
| 6 | " Ah , hell , what 's the point ? " came out of him in a choking sob , and he put his arm over his face . |
| 7 | Ye 'd never have got it out of him in a million years . |
| 8 | Matthew , as usual , was unwilling to answer a straight question , but I got it out of him in the end . |
| 9 | We do n't know exactly where but it must have been close , as he dragged himself home to his favourite spot on the lawn where his life ebbed out of him in the quiet of the night . |