Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him out [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We watched the small boat carry him out to the middle of the river , where the great black prison-ship stood high out of the water , held by its rusty chains .
2 Adams benefited from the tailenders ' intention to belt him out of the ground , taking three of the last five wickets for final figures of four for 43 from 21.4 overs .
3 Using the rock and the darkness as cover , she watched him as he broke into motion and that powerful stroke carried him out to the rocks and back .
4 Theda opened her mouth to blister him out of the torment that consumed her … and paused , arrested by the look in his face .
5 Then my buddy pointed him out as the crazy maniac making the calls .
6 Inspector Berret 's suspicions intensified when Alice James and another witness picked him out in a line-up .
7 Another fall put him out of the reckoning in the first heat , but an eighth and a sixth were good enough to earn seventh overall .
8 So id long-term continuity is what the selectors will look for and if Lynagh 's Italian experience rules him out as a contender , who is the man to fill Farr-Jones ' vital boots .
9 Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin .
10 He finished on the rostrum in three of the first four GPs ( ignition failure put him out of the fourth ) and he beat John Kocinski in stunning style to win the fifth GP of the season at the Nurburgring .
11 But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly .
12 Now my Lord the defendants say of course , that they were never asked by the plaintiff to get him out of the contract so that the duty er never arose .
13 His hands were not particularly robust , but he missed very few matches until June 1952 , when appendicitis ruled him out for the rest of the summer .
14 In The Quarry Man ( 1908 ) a workman is blinded during blasting operations at a quarry ; later his wife becomes unfaithful and he is driven to suicide ; just in time his wife pulls him out of the river and she now abandons ‘ the downward path ’ .
15 The beastly blob wipes him out in a story in America 's DC Superman comics .
16 Palmerston returned to the Foreign Office in July 1846 in Russell 's administration and was able to enjoy the effects of the changes he had instigated until December 1851 , when pressure from the Court forced him out of the Foreign Office .
17 The mechanic watched him out of the comer of his eye as he went from car to car , making an elaborate pretence of examining the interiors .
18 The State winched him out of the professorial chair when the ecclesiastical authority was lukewarm .
19 A Polish farmer fits him out with a complete set of dry clothes and sends him on to the West German embassy in Warsaw .
20 NEVIL MARTIN is back in business again after a debilitating illness ruled him out of the local tournament scene last season .
21 From his origins in Protestant East Belfast , his exhilarating ball control and deceptive change of pace marked him out as a unique prospect in an area accustomed to discovering football talent .
22 Despairing in his heart that anything further could be done to improve the conditions of seafarers , Plimsoll nevertheless continued to work without respite to promote the cause in which he so passionately believed , and did so until illness forced him out of the public scene .
23 The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef .
24 At first glance only his sword and the shoulder straps attached to his shirt mark him out as an officer .
25 It wo n't have escaped anybody 's attention that the Indian spinner Anil Kumble rose to the dizzy heights of No 3 in the world thanks to the vain attempts of Robin Smith and Co to fathom him out during the disastrous tour of the subcontinent .
26 Possibly a convenient excuse to get him out of the team , the way he 's playing at the moment ?
27 For example , one of their star turns , David Swift , whose appearance in the first programme of the series staring out at the world through bright blue eyes beneath a battered trilby marked him out as a natural , recalls going to dance halls in the 1950s in search of girls : ‘ I mean there were plenty of songs coming out then where they say , Look at the way she walks .
28 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 ?
29 ‘ If it were possible for the Football League to kick him out of the club , that 's what I want .
30 The path brought him out into the rest of the grounds .
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