Example sentences of "[to-vb] him [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nails had hoped Biddy would have foregone her offer to meet him out of school the next day , or at least be late so that he would have a chance of escaping her clutches , but when he came out she was there outside the gate on her motor-bike , and there was no escaping . |
| 2 | Then he was offered a place on the Work Trial scheme — a local garage offered to try him out for three weeks , without obligation , while the Employment Service continued to pay his benefit . |
| 3 | Time at last to rid himself of the name ‘ Marwood ’ for good and all : he told the officiating minister , Alfred Martell , to write him down as ‘ James Henry Titford ’ . |
| 4 | When he stood in the middle of the road waving his arms it was only because he was hungry and wanted his dinner , now you 'll have to trundle him about in a wheelbarrow like a dead sheep , you 'll have no time for skirmishing . |
| 5 | CAN anyone tell me why : I can put the water on for a bath , pop out and come home to find HIM up to his ears in it uninvited . |
| 6 | She laughed rather shrilly , grabbed his hands and tried to pull him up against her . |
| 7 | He tried to ease his body to one side to let her come in but he was surprised once again as she got hold of his hand and began to pull him out of the bed . |
| 8 | ‘ Someone in his financial position could easily have got a doctor 's certificate to pull him out of tournaments but to his credit he never even considered it . ’ |
| 9 | Laughton is in a hole and the players as professional sportsmen have a responsibility to pull him out of it . |
| 10 | Oddly enough the worst was his shoulder , where the man had seized it to pull him out of the car . |
| 11 | It was hardly a secret that Gallieni , no admirer of Joffre ( who , among other things , had stolen much of the honour due to Gallieni for the victory of the Marne ) , wanted eventually to pull him back to Paris in the largely administrative capacity of a CIGS , while placing the executive command of the armies in the field under de Castelnau . |
| 12 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 13 | The length of these umbilicals means that , in most cases , the tender can not tend the diver in the true sense , and may not be able to pull him back in an emergency . |
| 14 | She wanted to pull him down with her . |
| 15 | He was down and sometimes it seemed as if nothing was going to shake him out of it , apart from a laugh at someone else 's expense or a shared moment of despair . |
| 16 | You want to shake him off like a wasp on a sunny day . |
| 17 | It was so difficult to conjure him up at will now , to truly remember what he was like and bring him to life again . |
| 18 | Well , Mansell who run , won yesterday 's Portugese Grand Prix is believed to be considering several offers to tempt him out of that so-called retirement . |
| 19 | Whoever killed Kemp had time : time to cart him off to the river , ant dump him there — gently , Lewis — without even a splash to startle the cygnets … ’ |
| 20 | In this encounter and during many others following , as it turned out , his God proved more willing to try him than to catch him up to safety ; and in this trial of his will , Kit Everard failed . |
| 21 | He seemed far too competent for life to catch him out in so trivial a way . |
| 22 | THE business worked by magic — until Musgrave donned his only clean suit , the infallible sign that he was off on a call to Lord Glenconner or Sir Michael Culmne-Seymour , who used to bail him out to the tune of £50 or £100 . |
| 23 | He does n't need his father to bail him out of trouble any more . |
| 24 | I 'm not going to bail him out by jumping into the car . |
| 25 | Yet his family was totally dependent on him , not just his brothers but his mother and his father , so he could n't buck the system ; the pressure to rein him back in and continue the status quo and what was making money won over . |
| 26 | Sister not only gave smiling permission , she allowed me to escort him back to his car . |
| 27 | So I could n't I could n't charge him twenty cos he 'd only charged me he 'd only charged me twenty so I had to sell him back to him for a tenner you know . |
| 28 | Gently we tried to talk him round to looking at things in another way . |
| 29 | ‘ I managed to talk him round by telling him what he can achieve here . |
| 30 | Our attempts to talk him out of this merely provoked his scorn . |