Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [to-vb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Get a vet to check him over to be sure . |
| 2 | Laughton is in a hole and the players as professional sportsmen have a responsibility to pull him out of it . |
| 3 | She had half a mind to put him back in his box and sit on the lid . |
| 4 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 5 | I always regarded Ellen 's attitude towards Grimes as one of sympathy and understanding and a desire to help him out of his difficulties . |
| 6 | The band and crew have a month to talk him out of it . |
| 7 | We had organized a helicopter to get him down to London in time . |
| 8 | Pop , as the Japs drew nearer , had organised the men with one of our Mission doctors , and they hoped to walk out up the Chindwin Valley and over into Assam , but unfortunately for Pop his feet had gone septic , and at the end he was dumped on Myitkya airfield for a night and a day , waiting for a plane to take him over to Dibrugarh in Assam . |
| 9 | Of course it would be a gamble to throw him back in so early , but it is a gamble that has worked before . |
| 10 | Martin Foyle what , out of the side for so long — bit of a gamble to bring him back in ; he did you proud . |
| 11 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |