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 .
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