Example sentences of "[verb] him out [prep] the way " in BNC.
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1 | But Mitchell wo n't condone the taking of life and soon it seems both good guys and bad guys want him out of the way . |
2 | ‘ Never mind what kind , ’ said Gurder , pushing him out of the way . |
3 | Duvall was suddenly standing on the step above him , pushing him out of the way and stepping down past him . |
4 | Without speaking , she elbowed him out of the way and continued with her baking , thumping and banging the dough into shape , all the time her tears falling silently . |
5 | ‘ I know , ’ Cleg 's big hand covered hers , ‘ but , for your own sake , send your cousin packing or marry him out of the way , then no-one will have room to talk . ’ |
6 | The monster , coming forward , knocked him out of the way with one sweep of an arm as he marched towards the prone figure of his creator . |
7 | Mr Miller knocked him out of the way but fell under the machine himself . |
8 | Church was too slow and Woolley 's shoulder barged him out of the way . |
9 | Milton , the provost believed , should write to the collector of customs to have him tell the threatened tide waiter that he was in no danger , and at the same time secure an order for Main to cross to West Lothian for a few days , around the time of the burgh elections , in order to get him out of the way , for the election of the deacon of the wrights would turn on this single vote . |
10 | Nobody would have cared ; been relieved , more like , to have him out of the way . |
11 | Could n't you have kept him out of the way ? ’ |
12 | Once he nearly caught it but someone pushed him out of the way at the last moment . |
13 | The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef . |
14 | Michael pushed him out of the way . |
15 | He pushed him out of the way . |
16 | However , there is evidence to suggest that some women distrusted other methods of birth control , and particularly that of male withdrawal ; not all women could reckon on either being able to ‘ push him out of the way when I think it 's near ’ , or on their husbands ' constant exercise of self-control . |