Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [pron] out [prep] " 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 | I tried to clean it out with a trolley . |
4 | Dynamius tried to lock them out of the city , but he was tricked by Gundulf . |
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 | Poppy dissolved into a quivering heap when staff tried to lead her out of the cage , so they suggested that I tried . |
7 | Bob tried to talk him out of it when they were on their own , at the sandwich bar in the Gates . |
8 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
9 | 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 . |
10 | No we tried to talk her out of . |
11 | I tried to talk you out of it but nothing worked . |
12 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
13 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
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 | Mrs Kipling said her husband tried to put it out with a jacket . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
18 | I tried to knock myself out with some cider I 'd bought , then I swallowed a bottle of weedkiller and started to walk towards the lake . |
19 | " His dad tried to knock it out of him but it never made no difference . " |
20 | She had fought against him , tried to keep him out of her life , but was n't that because she had been afraid ? |
21 | 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 . |
22 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
23 | Tried to argue him out of it , even suggested — very tactfully — that he saw a doctor . |
24 | The United States broke the unofficial cartel with Canada and tried to shoulder her out of markets . |
25 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
26 | Hell , Nick , I tried to get her out of that place , but she did n't care . |
27 | The hon. Member for Nottingham , South ( Mr. Brandon-Bravo ) tried to get himself out of a largehole — |
28 | The blokes tried to get us out with water — the firehoses . |
29 | Ruth shook her head , tried to twist it out of his menacing grasp . |
30 | She tried to belt it out as Fred , the Stage Manager , had advised , but Noreen was n't a belter and the heavier second house did n't warm to her as much , nor did she to them . |