Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] him out " in BNC.

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1 From there he was handed on to Bloomsbury House , where Elaine Blond agreed a one-off payment to fit him out for another job .
2 But Mr Donnellan claimed they wanted him to admit a lesser charge to get him out of the college quietly .
3 The sherry in the clear soup put him out entirely .
4 The old man wanted him out .
5 The beastly blob wipes him out in a story in America 's DC Superman comics .
6 Suddenly we saw Lenin seize him by the collar and in an incomparable matter-of-fact manner pitch him out on to the platform . " …
7 He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world .
8 Using the rock and the darkness as cover , she watched him as he broke into motion and that powerful stroke carried him out to the rocks and back .
9 For all his talent , his faintly sinister appearance ruled him out .
10 This , of course , has provided an extra excuse for the highly protective Kinnocks to keep him out of the firing line .
11 He felt a kind of frozen hardness blocking him out , as if there were a wall of ice between him and the two men .
12 But the careers office told him his poor sight ruled him out , a Winchester inquest heard yesterday .
13 Whenever you 've seen Rob in my office you 've taken good care to get him out of my clutches very smartly , on the flimsiest of pretexts .
14 This Hoccleve rejects outright : his long sickness sent him out of his mind , not too much study .
15 He was awarded the Diploma of the Hague Academy of International Law in 1965 and his experience of the practice of international law with the United Nations Relief Works Agency ( Unrwa ) in Beirut , with the Hague Unification Conference and with the European Commission marked him out as exceptional .
16 So id long-term continuity is what the selectors will look for and if Lynagh 's Italian experience rules him out as a contender , who is the man to fill Farr-Jones ' vital boots .
17 The fat cook pushed him out of the way , coming to turn a pan of potatoes roasting under spitted beef .
18 We watched the small boat carry him out to the middle of the river , where the great black prison-ship stood high out of the water , held by its rusty chains .
19 Kersey watched the gulls and tried various gambits to draw him out , succeeding at last : ‘ I suppose Sara 's story is credible and you ca n't altogether blame her for not coming out with it sooner . ’
20 The free kick fell to Imre Varadi , but some determined goalkeeping kept him out .
21 Possibly a convenient excuse to get him out of the team , the way he 's playing at the moment ?
22 NEVIL MARTIN is back in business again after a debilitating illness ruled him out of the local tournament scene last season .
23 For example , one of their star turns , David Swift , whose appearance in the first programme of the series staring out at the world through bright blue eyes beneath a battered trilby marked him out as a natural , recalls going to dance halls in the 1950s in search of girls : ‘ I mean there were plenty of songs coming out then where they say , Look at the way she walks .
24 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 .
25 some young assistant sussed him out and pulled
26 The ousted chief executive confirmed he 'll continue his fight to win control of the club from chairman Alan Sugar , and that he had full but anonymous financial backing to buy him out .
27 Gary Owers ( midfield ) : Back in contention for a place at Wembley after a serious pelvic injury kept him out of action for three months , the England Under-21 international 's non-stop running could be a great asset .
28 But it needed the right impetus to get him out of it .
29 A Polish farmer fits him out with a complete set of dry clothes and sends him on to the West German embassy in Warsaw .
30 Today , if a man takes over a farm and gets into a muddle , he has the fertilizers , the sprays and the weedkillers — the whole lot to get him out of it . ’
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