Example sentences of "him out of his " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're still a young man … well , youngish. ’ she said , trying to tease him out of his apparent lethargy and depression . |
| 2 | Even then , he had not got as far as thinking what would be the music that introduced the News and all at once the screen was filled with a picture of his own house , a picture that nearly jolted him out of his skin . |
| 3 | The narrator Michael , an elderly bachelor living in genteel poverty , describes his ‘ castle in the air ’ ; in it he has married Christiana , the girl who gave him up when he was disinherited , while John Spatter , who cheated him out of his business , remains his friend and partner . |
| 4 | As a great favour , the well-known proprietor of a cigar shop he frequented introduced him to a ‘ gentleman ’ with a den in Piccadilly who offered to ‘ help him out of his difficulty ’ by lending him the money . |
| 5 | It 's unfair to him , Edouard , to take him out of his station in that way . |
| 6 | The question — or was it a demand — shocked him out of his fantasy as crudely as if , unprovoked , she had suddenly slapped his face . |
| 7 | Not even a torrent of verbal abuse from Ron Atkinson , nor a number of disciplinary fines , could jolt him out of his depression . |
| 8 | Not even a torrent of verbal abuse from Ron Atkinson , nor a number of disciplinary fines , could jolt him out of his depression . |
| 9 | Mayer knocked the director to the floor and threw him out of his office . |
| 10 | Among Lynwood Drake 's victims was his 80-year-old landlord , who had thrown him out of his California home . |
| 11 | NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year . |
| 12 | This Hoccleve rejects outright : his long sickness sent him out of his mind , not too much study . |
| 13 | Although it might sound as though Dawn was petrified of Jasper there were a number of occasions when she scared him out of his skin . |
| 14 | He lacked General Francis 's extreme , if ageing , good looks and enchanting manners , but take him out of his white coat and he 'd be dead sexy . |
| 15 | Eventually someone put him out of his misery and told him , between guffaws , that he was in fact conversing with has-been '80s saddoes CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT . |
| 16 | The intellectual domination and the emotional charge which carried it rapidly whipped him out of his old ways . |
| 17 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 18 | In the United Kingdom , an employee can be dismissed from his job unceremoniously , but he can not be prevented from working elsewhere , nor can his employer throw him out of his house . |
| 19 | Mr Evans was flaming mad , not with Mrs Gotobed but with Hepzibah for ‘ doing him out of his rights ' . |
| 20 | I really believe that for some reason or other the place is frightening him out of his wits . |
| 21 | And she acknowledged that part of her longing to be bustling about was to try and snap him out of his trance so that he could tell her where her sister was . |
| 22 | He gathered a chestful of air to shout at Fiona — dozy bitch had locked him out of his own fucking castle , his own bedroom — but then thought of the children . |
| 23 | Penda gave one sister in marriage to Cenwealh , king of the upper Thames valley Saxons , and when Cenwealh repudiated her he drove him out of his kingdom by c . |
| 24 | The pain brought him out of his unconsciousness . |
| 25 | ‘ It can not have knocked him out of his wits for very long , had that been all . |
| 26 | More , it would not have left him out of his wits above a quarter of an hour at the longest . |
| 27 | Then , only a beat later it seemed to him , shame and anger raced back to take possession of him again , and so overcome by these conflicting feelings was he that he had no consciousness of her in all this , until he became aware , to his surprise , that she was shaking him out of his stupor , bringing him to her again with her mouth and her hands . |
| 28 | Jacob had not seen Esau since he had cheated him out of his birthright , twenty years previously . |
| 29 | ‘ All right , ’ he replied flatly , unresponsive to her invitation to some facetious joking about bottoms , which might have jolted him out of his philosophical mood . |
| 30 | You 'd bore him out of his mind in a very short time . ’ |