Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] him out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first glance only his sword and the shoulder straps attached to his shirt mark him out as an officer . |
| 2 | Philip did n't believe what Lee had said about his stepdad letting him out on purpose , wanting him to get killed . |
| 3 | His intelligence marked him out from other prisoners . |
| 4 | It was irregular because his duties took him out of touch for weeks at a time . |
| 5 | 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 ’ . |
| 6 | In both fields he was an individualist , and in both his successes mark him out as an artist of power and originality . |
| 7 | He does n't need his father to bail him out of trouble any more . |
| 8 | She only remembered it long afterwards , the night his father turned him out of Riverstown . |
| 9 | In the United Kingdom , an employee can be dismissed from his job unceremoniously , but he can not be prevented from working elsewhere , nor can his employer throw him out of his house . |
| 10 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 11 | When his mother rigs him out in a pretty pink frock to wear to school ( ‘ What 's a frock ? ’ said my son . |
| 12 | But he dispels that notion when asked how seriously he considered a dangerous brain operation in Mexico before his family talked him out of it . |