Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] [adv prt] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At a signal from Sybil , Rachel helped to coax them out of the water and into the changing-rooms where David was helping Danny to dress . |
| 2 | Members of a Cardiff ladies ' rowing club tried to pull her out of the mud , but found the current was too fast , and the bitch ( yes , she is called Eric ! ) , too heavy . |
| 3 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
| 6 | Bob tried to talk him out of it when they were on their own , at the sandwich bar in the Gates . |
| 7 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 8 | Najma 's family tried to talk her out of a singing career as not quite suitable for a good Muslim girl , but she persevered and in 1984 won Britain 's Asian song contest on her first public appearance . |
| 9 | No we tried to talk her out of . |
| 10 | I tried to talk you out of it but nothing worked . |
| 11 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 12 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 15 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
| 16 | She had fought against him , tried to keep him out of her life , but was n't that because she had been afraid ? |
| 17 | Perhaps it is a sort of demoralisation , not surprising considering the misfortunes which have wracked the East Asian communities now in Britain — first their years of suffering associated with their expulsion from Africa , then their experiences at the hands of racist British authorities who tried to keep them out of Britain , and finally the day-to-day racism which they have faced in Britain as refugees . |
| 18 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 19 | Tried to argue him out of it , even suggested — very tactfully — that he saw a doctor . |
| 20 | The United States broke the unofficial cartel with Canada and tried to shoulder her out of markets . |
| 21 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
| 22 | Hell , Nick , I tried to get her out of that place , but she did n't care . |
| 23 | The hon. Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) tried to get himself out of a largehole — |
| 24 | Ruth shook her head , tried to twist it out of his menacing grasp . |
| 25 | Later , walking along the prom in the deep silence of that foggy early morning , she tried to taunt herself out of her depression : ‘ You never learn , do you ? |
| 26 | Constanza tried to follow her out of the hotel — as she was very very upset , my grandmother — but Constanza was too late . |
| 27 | The unfortunate man had suffered such violent panic attacks that he tried to throw himself out of the window . |
| 28 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 29 | Kenan 's just been granted a 6-month visa , 4 months after the Nix 's first tried to bring him out of Bosnia . |
| 30 | He 'd seen nothing out of the way . |