Example sentences of "they [vb past] him out [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border . |
2 | like to look after my mother , er she was one , and she died now erm she died two years ago , I think she was one of the first to go and er , the other one they fetched him out of the street the chap then they corresponded with him up to the war but , but after that , they , I do n't know whether they stopped writing because of the war , I do n't know , but they never , never got in touch with them never again so |
3 | Father Peter handed them their cloaks , taking his own from a wooden peg , and they followed him out into the cold . |
4 | They followed him out of the camp in single file and headed along the riverbank , making for watering places where buffalo liked to wallow in the heat of the day . |
5 | Then they pulled him out of the room . |
6 | They fished him out of the water . |
7 | The man who cost Portsmouth just £450 when they bought him out of the army netted his second hat-trick of the season on Saturday and in turn became leading scorer in the First Division . |
8 | Holly could not resist , and they squeezed him out from the hole and when his feet were clear the two men stamped together on the steel plate to flatten it back , and between his knees he could no longer see the whiteness of snow on the stones and the zebra flash of the sleepers . |
9 | ‘ Before they dragged him out of the harbour . |