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

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1 I 've pulled him out of it I pulled him out of it for the simple reason , he is the only one which is , I did n't want to segregate him on his own .
2 He usually stops eating for a couple of days but I talk him out of it .
3 I sent him ahead of me for the six-month quarantine , and the day he got out was one of the best days of my life . ’
4 Eventually someone put him out of his misery and told him , between guffaws , that he was in fact conversing with has-been '80s saddoes CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT .
5 I wanted him out of it .
6 The narrator Michael , an elderly bachelor living in genteel poverty , describes his ‘ castle in the air ’ ; in it he has married Christiana , the girl who gave him up when he was disinherited , while John Spatter , who cheated him out of his business , remains his friend and partner .
7 Although it might sound as though Dawn was petrified of Jasper there were a number of occasions when she scared him out of his skin .
8 Yet you threw him out of his job just to make room for me . ’
9 She saw him ahead of her , hopping up and down in his anxiety .
10 After that she shut him out of her mind once again .
11 ROS : We are counting on you to take him out of himself .
12 ‘ So how are you ? ’ she forced him out of her mind to ask .
13 All she knew was that she wanted him out of her flat — and out of her life — before he managed to do any more harm .
14 You wanted him out of your life ; well , now he 'll be gone for good .
15 ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness .
16 Penda gave one sister in marriage to Cenwealh , king of the upper Thames valley Saxons , and when Cenwealh repudiated her he drove him out of his kingdom by c .
17 He could n't place it , but it reminded him strongly of something .
18 ‘ If he has not come round , we will put the TV on anyway and hope that it brings him out of it .
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