Example sentences of "[to-vb] [noun prp] out [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Had it not been for his desire to sound Eleanor out on the subject of Liza , he felt he could easily have done so .
2 She had to face the fact that Phoebe was not , not then and not at any time , going to pull Maggie out from the night-time and into the daylight of loving and needing .
3 Clinton has vowed to assist the beleaguered Boris Yeltsin as he struggles to pull Russia out of the mire caused by decades of hardline Communist rule .
4 But the men in white arrived and began to pull Karen out of the room .
5 ‘ Labour and the Liberal Democrats want to pull Scotland out of the mainstream of the United Kingdom .
6 TYCOON Richard Branson told yesterday how he would run the country — after a poll showed he was tops to pull Britain out of the slump .
7 Some kind soul had forsaken the drama to escort Sandra out of the room and comfort her .
8 Jean Harlow , alias the teenager Harlean Carpenter from Kansas City , was doing all she could to pull Hollywood out of the slump but in general the more respectable critics were more prepared at this time to hand the plaudits to the male actors , who were seen very much as the cutting edge of the new realism .
9 As the man who had emerged to lead France out of the abyss of June 1940 , he could hardly countenance a return to the errors that had brought about the débcle .
10 McLeish grunted , feeling meanly triumphant that he had turned out to be right in his view that Francesca would not be able to sweep Tristram out of the hands of the New York police in quite the Napoleonic way she had assumed .
11 It must also put together a package which will help to ease Britain out of the recession .
12 But even the fiercest dissenter would have been pushed to leave McIlvanney out of the frame .
13 However , the huge site fees lodged by the casinos in Las Vegas would appear to put London out of the running .
14 Six months later Acheson indicated that the United States wished to keep Taiwan out of the hands of mainland China .
15 Barlow said : ‘ It is up to me to keep Neil out of the side and prove the manager wrong .
16 Ipswich staged a dramatic recovery to knock Wimbledon out of the Zenith Data Systems Cup at Portman Road last night .
17 ‘ However , David Pleat did not want to sell him because he was involved in trying to keep Luton out of the relegation situation .
18 A massive blow , delivered at maximum speed , was to knock France out of the war in the first six weeks ; then , using Germany 's efficient interior rail system , the victorious troops were to be rushed east to destroy the Tsar 's armies before Russia 's cumbersome mobilization could be completed .
19 But this time , what Frank and Tod did was to fight Carmichael out in the territory .
20 I was always afraid that Hindley would hurt his small son , either by accident or on purpose , when he was drunk , so I tried to keep Hareton out of the way .
21 As I suggested apropos the Petrashevsky Circle , one feels an urge to smoke Dostoevsky out with the question , who 's talking ?
22 He leaned inwards and seemed to lift Jo out of the car with one hand .
23 Benny knew he had to get William out of the smoke before he did anything else .
24 By using my right knee to steady the wheel when I changed gear , I managed to get Armstrong out of the hospital car park .
25 It was n't easy to get Nigel out of the window — and the large oval bed of rose bushes with the most vicious imaginable thorns , immediately underneath the window , did n't help — but eventually he was again steered into the back of the Volvo , and Alan drove off with Dei at his side .
26 ‘ I want you to get Sanders out of the country just before next week 's EPC meeting and keep him out until after the meetin 's over .
27 It took them half the time to get Kevin out to the Murphy cart than it took to get Liam sobered up again and it was Nellie who finally drove the cart away with its very full load .
28 She knew she could do nothing whatever to get Joe out of the marsh .
29 Somehow I managed to get Joe out of the house , and in the daylight he gradually became normal again .
30 CONFIDENCE is what is needed to get Britain out of the recession .
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