Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] he [adv prt] [prep] the " 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 | ‘ How did that kind of line get him on to the insulin project ? ’ |
| 5 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 6 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 7 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 8 | Half-blinded by blood from his cuts , he put the plane into a dive and somehow managed to land the right side up — despite the appearance of a third enemy plane which tried to polish him off on the way down . |
| 9 | How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? |
| 10 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 11 | Royal Cedar , trained by John McConnochie , who has taken him over from the now retired Mercy Rimell , is another who is perfectly at home on fast ground , winning here over three and a half miles and at Newbury this season . |
| 12 | Sitting around in the sun all day , scoffing tons of ice cream is his idea of heaven , though he did get a bit miffed when Greenpeace tried to push him back into the sea . |
| 13 | No he said , and I went over and I picked him up anyway , and sat him on , I sat him on my knee and I said we 'll just do some rhymes and I could feel him sort of going mm , mm , mm , like they do all pathetic and whiny , anyway Phyllis arrived and afterwards it was , by then he had calmed down and he was fine and I said wan na read the story now cos he missed it of course when he decided he could n't do without his car , so I said next week perhaps come without your car , I think I 'd won him over by the end but , it was a bit hairy . |
| 14 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 15 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 16 | They 'd piled him in with the dead , and it was only later a naval ensign noticed him twitching . |
| 17 | And three-year-old Alex has his loving grandparents , Andrew and Monica , to help guide him out of the darkness towards normality . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | A large crowd of spectators from the corner pub helped drag him out of the mud . |
| 20 | He would have been happier if the Latin American had made at least a pretence at attempting to beat him down on the charter price . |
| 21 | So I hunted him and smashed his face , and I was going to take him back to the prison-ship , so that he would n't have the pleasure of being free , when the soldiers caught us . |
| 22 | He glanced right and saw another half-dozen Dragoons racing to cut him off from the cart track . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It was in the corresponding match last season that Marshall sustained the knee ligament damage which threatened to put him out of the game . |
| 25 | His young rider , ‘ Wendy ’ , saddled him up , and started to trot him around in the practice ring with a number of other horses . |
| 26 | Despite his strange dealings in the transfer market up to now , I 'm still one of the pro-Wilko group , and I 'm not going to start slagging him off on the basis of rumours about what he might conceivably do . |
| 27 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 28 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 29 | He referred to the policy of separate development as ‘ apart-hate ’ in his first few letters , until somebody must have clued him in on the correct spelling . |
| 30 | If that had happened in my day , those players would have had him up against the nearest wall and sorted it out . |