Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [verb] him out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I tried to persuade him out of it but he would n't budge . |
| 2 | Mike came down yesterday morning , mind you he had been on his own quite a lot , a lot of time yesterday for the day Josh , cos I went to Altrincham with me mum at half nine and it , I 'd taken him out for a walk to make sure he 'd had his walk and Mike did n't get up till gone half two and when he come down he 'd cut a report of Lisa 's on the floor |
| 3 | Afterwards I had to take him out to the pub to revive him . ’ |
| 4 | When I had stretched him out on the floor , I stood over him . |
| 5 | Overlooking the causal nature of meaning with respect to usage leads here to obvious circularity within the formal framework however : to is first defined as necessary to support a clausal complement with no discussion of the data which contradict this postulate ( cf She helped lift him out of the bed ; You 've missed things . |
| 6 | She tried to put him out of her mind while she drove along and had almost succeeded when she pulled up outside the surgery and saw a car standing in the yard . |
| 7 | ‘ He was n't as odd as you 'd made him out to be , your friend , ’ Gillian said as we left . |
| 8 | He liked Mrs Robson , he had become very fond of her : she was down to earth , and she seemed to bring him out of himself , but she seemed to be harbouring serious ideas about Maggie and him . |
| 9 | She says she did want him out of the house , but she did n't want to kill him as a court was going to evict him anyway . |
| 10 | She had taken to him from the first , and he to her , perhaps , on his part , because she had given him some hot mutton broth and let him eat as much bread as he could manage , which had been half a loaf ; and then she had rigged him out in odd things . |
| 11 | His mother had drunk too much stout , ‘ gone up the school ’ , and had him transferred from metal work to Latin , from Civic Studies to French ; she had paid a maths coach with the earnings of a paper-round she had sent him out on . |
| 12 | Two-thirty in the afternoon and she had dragged him out of bed ? |
| 13 | Perhaps the answer out of the mouths of her babes … he had this mad idea of working with refugees ; politically , of course , it would be an absolute nightmare , but she was sure she had talked him out of it . |
| 14 | She had helped him out of his jacket , tie and shoes , reckoned he would n't come to any great harm if he slept in his damp shirt and trousers , and placed a duvet over him . |
| 15 | She had taken him out into the garden to show him various easy spring tasks that must be done , and for which she would pay him , and he had refused . |
| 16 | ‘ And you wanted to persuade him out of it ? ’ |
| 17 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 18 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 19 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 20 | Jacob had not seen Esau since he had cheated him out of his birthright , twenty years previously . |