Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] of [pron] [adj] " in BNC.

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1	You 're still a young man … well , youngish. ’ she said , trying to tease him out of his apparent lethargy and depression .
2	NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year .
3	His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism .
4	The fuckers could n't keep him out of his own country .
5	He gathered a chestful of air to shout at Fiona — dozy bitch had locked him out of his own fucking castle , his own bedroom — but then thought of the children .
6	The intellectual domination and the emotional charge which carried it rapidly whipped him out of his old ways .
7	He had told them many a fairy story and when they checked , they returned more furious than before , dragging him out of his dirty , fetid pit back into the great vaulted torture chamber to be questioned once again .
8	‘ All right , ’ he replied flatly , unresponsive to her invitation to some facetious joking about bottoms , which might have jolted him out of his philosophical mood .
9	He lacked General Francis 's extreme , if ageing , good looks and enchanting manners , but take him out of his white coat and he 'd be dead sexy .
10	His mind could be changed , she reasoned within herself , especially if Doreen made an effort to charm him out of his present anti-female trend of thought .
11	The fact that DEC plucked him out of its largest and most profitable systems businesses and split that down the middle so he could run the NT operation is proof that DEC expects significant results out of NT .

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