Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv prt] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're still a young man … well , youngish. ’ she said , trying to tease him out of his apparent lethargy and depression . |
| 2 | Breaking the three-generational run of Lester Knox Colemans , his sons , Joshua and Chad , were born on 16 September 1989 , at about the same time as the DIA decided to dust him off for his next assignment . |
| 3 | NIGEL MANSELL confirmed last night that he is aware of moves to buy him out of his Indy Car racing contract and sensationally persuade him to stay in Formula One next year . |
| 4 | His own answer to it was in some ways remarkably similar to those he attacked , for it added up to this : historical study can not bring Jesus down to our own time ; rather , it reveals his strangeness to us , and he loses all colour and significance if we attempt to tear him out of his own historical and religious setting in late Judaism . |
| 5 | She would have liked to pay him back for his earlier tone by pretending a permanent disability . |
| 6 | Jack persuaded Ducrocq to take him up for his first real flight , from that moment Jack knew that speed on the ground was no longer enough . |
| 7 | Lauda and Ferrari were supreme in 1975 and Lauda 's five wins , including three in succession , were enough to take him on to his first world title , a title he would surely have retained had it not been for his accident at the Nurburgring . |
| 8 | His mind could be changed , she reasoned within herself , especially if Doreen made an effort to charm him out of his present anti-female trend of thought . |