Example sentences of "[verb] him [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
| 2 | I learned that even if you pay the mortgage on your home and your husband contributes nothing to bills , you can not legally lock him out of the matrimonial home . |
| 3 | When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed . |
| 4 | because he lives a life where material luxury has bought him out of the social expectations imposed on less fortunate people . |
| 5 | He is currently in Israel although a leg strain will keep him out of the national side , who play Finland in Helsinki in a World Cup tie tomorrow . |
| 6 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 7 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 8 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 9 | The State winched him out of the professorial chair when the ecclesiastical authority was lukewarm . |
| 10 | At least now he 's surrounded by people who encourage and inspire him , who kick his arse , help him write songs and drag him out of the isolated , uncreative lethargy he easily slips into . |
| 11 | NEVIL MARTIN is back in business again after a debilitating illness ruled him out of the local tournament scene last season . |
| 12 | Agassi was seeing a specialist in Seattle in a bid to beat the injury which kept him out of the French Open . |
| 13 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 14 | It held together with the engine , the rest of the fuselage separating which took him out of the major part of the fire . |
| 15 | It took all three of them to lift him out of the reeking waterlogged shelter through an opening just big enough for one of them at a time . |
| 16 | We worked very hard to get him out of the Soviet Union — well , you know all that , Mr Carpenter will have told you , and he will have told you what went wrong … ’ |
| 17 | However , although these disanalogies were fundamental , Darwin 's theorizing had not taken him out of the causal , lawful , deterministic Newtonian universe , into one as irreducibly acausal and absolutely probabilistic as is sometimes thought implicit in quantum mechanics . |
| 18 | Palmerston returned to the Foreign Office in July 1846 in Russell 's administration and was able to enjoy the effects of the changes he had instigated until December 1851 , when pressure from the Court forced him out of the Foreign Office . |
| 19 | Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene . |
| 20 | The scrum half has recovered from the injury which would have kept him out of the postponed Durham Cup tie against Horden on Wednesday . |
| 21 | England manager Graham Taylor left him out of the European Championship squad last summer and Blackburn pulled put of a £3 million transfer at the 11th hour in August . |
| 22 | Of large build and possessed of ritual mannerisms when facing the bowling , his technique was founded in the securest of defence , and , although he was a shrewd placer of the ball , it was perhaps his seeming doggedness that left him out of the international reckoning at a time when England possessed several middle-order batsmen of sterling class . |