Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When by Monday lunchtime there was still no word from him , however , she tried phoning him up at MacKay Contracting — only to be told that he was unavailable . |
| 2 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 3 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 4 | BRIAN MARWOOD , England winger turned Premier League reject , last night heaped gratitude on the man who has booted him out of Sheffield United . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The one who got shot in the chest when Special Branch and MIs tried to pick him up in Bayswater . |
| 7 | Gently we tried to talk him round to looking at things in another way . |
| 8 | Bob tried to talk him out of it when they were on their own , at the sandwich bar in the Gates . |
| 9 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 10 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 11 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 12 | The bride , who fell in love with the former lecturer , as she helped nurse him back to health after his four-year ordeal as a captive , was radiant in a full-length , ivory raw silk dress , with a slit up the side . |
| 13 | But as for putting poison in his wine , or setting a pitfall under his feet at a hunt — no , he 'd hew off the head of any man who tried to put him up to it . |
| 14 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 15 | The 24-year-old Luton striker was sent off at Chester after scoring his first goal of the season , but Billy Bingham has called him up for next week 's Group Six qualifier against the Republic of Ireland in Dublin . |
| 16 | ‘ How did that kind of line get him on to the insulin project ? ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I tried to cheer him up with memories of the last time his ankle was hurting , when we slept in a sheep herder 's cave — lined with graffiti that was centuries old — on the way from Landmannalaugar to the coast near Vik . |
| 19 | AIDS has ousted him out of history . |
| 20 | Eric Cantona is in the squad less than a fortnight after suffering a hamstring injury that was expected to keep him out of action for two months . |
| 21 | She had fought against him , tried to keep him out of her life , but was n't that because she had been afraid ? |
| 22 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 23 | And Sand Table gives every indication that his trainer has laid him out with the Royal Hunt Cup in mind . |
| 24 | Tried to argue him out of it , even suggested — very tactfully — that he saw a doctor . |
| 25 | She even tried to snatch him back from school to keep him at home . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | No , if they want to flush him out of hiding , there 's hardly a man they could use but Hotspur . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | How much would Donald need to get him back on the road ? |
| 30 | In 1984 his friend of many years , Liz Taylor , tried to get him back in front of the cameras and to conquer his alcoholism . |