Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pers pn] [adv prt] of the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 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 ?
2 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 ?
3 It has been decided to play the tape in an attempt to entice them out of the enclosed channel .
4 Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin .
5 Dominic Wetherby 's right hand was clutching a packet of cheese so tightly that it was impossible to prise it out of the dead grip .
6 The US government , which has no relations with the PLO and has sought consistently to keep it out of the Middle East peace process , said the request was still being discussed five hours later when news arrived that the 62-year-old chairman had been found .
7 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 .
8 My aunt was the one who went to all the trouble of trying to get me out of the Soviet Union . ’
9 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 … ’
10 The plots , counterplots , dead bodies and other nasty goings-on are laced with a soupçon of romantic interest to take it out of the boys- only category .
11 He looked ready to throw her out of the moving taxi .
12 With the ball often in need of a team of scuba-divers to dig it out of the muddy waters , the decision made sense .
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