Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] him out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three years ago Adam Dent 's parents took him out of school because they thought he was n't making enough progress . |
| 2 | It was irregular because his duties took him out of touch for weeks at a time . |
| 3 | He was in Belfast in 1990 , but two heart attacks put him out of action for a while . |
| 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 | There was more in the pitch than on the opening day for the quicker bowlers and with the second new ball Mark Ilott , playing his first game for Essex for a year after serious back problems kept him out of the game last season , was impressively hostile . |
| 6 | Chapman became a target man in more ways than one as the Germans singled him out for a buffeting that went unpunished by Swedish referee Rune Larsson . |
| 7 | ‘ One of our sergeants took him out of the river about six o'clock this morning , a mile and a half downstream from here . |
| 8 | Another series of lunges took him out of the central current and somehow he managed to regain his feet . |
| 9 | In São Paulo , he was about to find out , but a complex series of engine mishaps put him out of the race . |
| 10 | Martin Potter 's press photos made him out to be a cross between James Dean and Marlon Brando . |
| 11 | When the best man cleared his throat and announced that he was going to fix the puncture he had before leaving , all Moran 's children followed him out to the road and stood around as he got levers and patches and solution . |
| 12 | Thereafter Ladislav could not keep any post for long before the authorities hounded him out of it . |
| 13 | Otago made a brave challenge , led by Mike Brewer in his first appearance since a series of injuries took him out of the All Black tour of Australia . |
| 14 | As the boatmen rowed him out into the middle of Sydney harbour , his piper played a lament at the stem and John stood at the prow in full dress uniform , with his sword held high . |