Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] me out [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she tried to talk me out of leaving — laid on the flattery with a trowel . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She tried kicking me out of the classroom . |
| 3 | ‘ In the cruel manner in which she tried to prise me out of my home . ’ |
| 4 | They tried to lift me out of my depression . |
| 5 | I had called Professor Ruiperez from my hostal , and at once he came to take me out to lunch at an expensive restaurant featuring all the local dishes , including a hearty paella and fine Rioja wines . |
| 6 | I read more widely and , as news of my expertise spread , people began to seek me out for a ruling on a specific industrial relations issue or for an historical precedent . |
| 7 | ‘ He threatened to throw me out of his office , ’ he remembered . |
| 8 | But Ngugi managed to lift me out of my armchair and place me inside his imaginary village of Ilmorog . |
| 9 | I promised myself I would n't come near you again unless you wanted me to , that the ball would always be in your court , and that if you chose to kick me out of your life for good , then I 'd respect that wish , even if it 'd half kill me to do so . |
| 10 | He planned to get me out of the way so he could bid for the portmanteau . |
| 11 | It was the Officer who had turfed me out of the church yesterday when I was playing the bagpipes . |
| 12 | Harvey and Signe had hustled me out of there too quickly . |
| 13 | A few weeks earlier he had phoned me out of the blue — I think he was checking to see how many of his cronies were still alive ! |
| 14 | However , they had got me out of the way and I felt at least with a following wind a big lad would hit the ball in my direction and I might be able to do something . |
| 15 | I was sharing a place with Bobby ( Jacky ) Lee and Ted Halsall in the Portland Hotel , and they had to help me out of bed when the bell rang . |
| 16 | Earnest me anyway slightly hankered alter another Italian boy , Joseph , who had invited me out for a walk . |
| 17 | A straight feminist had brought me out by telling him she ‘ thought ’ I was a lesbian . |
| 18 | Well like Christie 's Manor had to show me out of it her and her her daughter ! |
| 19 | When she learned — shock , horror , dismay ! — that he wanted to take me out to dinner she had the brass nerve to call me ‘ a Jezebel ’ ! |
| 20 | He wanted to take me out in his boat to see to his lobster pots , only I was too scared of the sea . |