Example sentences of "[vb past] him out [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Frank is now 79 and we invited him out of retirement to skipper another tug and remember the heyday of the canals .
2 Ramsey felt no sense of gratitude to anyone who moved him out of Durham .
3 His wife Mable scolded him out of the house on a bright May Saturday afternoon in the late 1920s .
4 The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading .
5 He found him out in the garden , sitting on a wooden bench by the pond .
6 Korda let him out on a three-picture deal with Fox , continued to pay him $15,000 a year but would take a large slice of what Fox paid him : from the three pictures Richard would earn about £80,000 .
7 And I helped him out with money I got from Dad .
8 It it might be a help to him to have little local groups that helped him out with these things .
9 Nevertheless , I helped him out with one scene where this Danish prince sends his betrothed Ophelia mad .
10 He heard a cry from a man at the bottom of the stairs who seemed to have had his face burned off , and he helped him out to safety .
11 Charles was grumbling as Damian supported his weak body and helped him out to the car .
12 As Nancy helped him out of bed , Sikes swore and cursed at her clumsiness .
13 But he was smiling as they helped him out of the herbaceous border .
14 He gasped out his news even as Corbett , who had hurried down from his chamber , helped him out of the saddle .
15 Then Emmie helped him out of the skip and along the railway ; he clutched her with one hand and held Murgatroyd with the other .
16 Strong hands turned him round and helped him out into the street again .
17 Strong hands turned Soapy round and helped him out into the street again .
18 They then bundled him out of the car and left him on the road .
19 And this spirit continues with Jesus thereafter , it descended on him at baptism , it drove him out into the wilderness to be tempted and so on .
20 The vocabulary is different from the comments of fifty years earlier which wounded and infuriated Pound , and drove him out of England , but the sentiments are identical .
21 Penda gave one sister in marriage to Cenwealh , king of the upper Thames valley Saxons , and when Cenwealh repudiated her he drove him out of his kingdom by c .
22 He even tried looking in the oven but Mrs Bird drove him out of her kitchen with her feather duster .
23 She imagined him out in the square at that very moment concocting a plan to get into the flat again and make a thorough search .
24 He noted the rapid , undignified scramble by which the culprit extricated himself from the ropes on the river path , followed by ominous little trickles of loose earth ; and the exaggerated dignity with which he compensated as soon as he was clear , his slender back turned upon the voice that blasted him out of danger , his crest self-consciously reared in affected disregard of sounds which could not possibly be directed at him .
25 They turfed him out as an 18-year-old before Cambridge gave him a lifeline trial .
26 Mr Chan grabbed him and lifted him out in his arms .
27 When he was no more than knee high and as slender as a pencil , I dug him out of the wild river bank and planted him in a virginal garden , half an acre of island that consisted of nothing more luxurious or exotic than brick rubble , tilled chalk and grass seed .
28 She hauled him out like a conjuror 's rabbit out of a hat .
29 As they passed one of the Mason 's guards , they startled him out of dozing , and he hastily got up , cursing them and telling them not to go out of sight .
30 Although it might sound as though Dawn was petrified of Jasper there were a number of occasions when she scared him out of his skin .
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