Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Oddly enough the worst was his shoulder , where the man had seized it to pull him out of the car . |
| 3 | She had grabbed his hand and his cane firmly in her hands and was trying to pull him back through the water . |
| 4 | 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 … ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The fascination of this book is in its clear-sighted debunking of the myths which many have fondly mistaken for historical truth : that Columbus was really aiming for Asia , that he and his sailors thought the world was flat , that Queen Isabella pawned her jewels to finance his trips and came down with her husband to wave him off from the docks , or even ( a fondly-cherished delusion ) that these were journeys of discovery rather than intentional acquisition and expansion of the Spanish empire . |
| 7 | It is not known who gave him the letter but it was to set him off on the road to fame and fortune . |
| 8 | Marlon had been embarrassed by his mum coming to pick him up from the school disco . |
| 9 | This consisted of enrolling one 's child in a private playschool , which sent a car to pick him up in the morning and deposit him back on his own doorstep in the late afternoon . |
| 10 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 11 | So poor Willy was left in a situation where there was nobody to help him out with the f a full pool table for which he could n't get the key . |
| 12 | If he improves over the next 3–4 years and lasts until he 's 30 , then you will have to put him up alongside the other 2 . |
| 13 | I offered , once again , to put him up in the spare room for the night , but , once again , he would n't hear of it . |
| 14 | Her mind worried the problem of where would he find lodgings , how could she summon the strength to put him out of the only refuge he had ? |
| 15 | But Travis had been marvellously patient for months and months now — could n't she find a way to put him out of the private hell he was in ? |
| 16 | It was in the corresponding match last season that Marshall sustained the knee ligament damage which threatened to put him out of the game . |
| 17 | He asked the taxi he had taken to put him down at the top of the drift and he had walked to the house . |
| 18 | It 's almost impossible to put him down in the tackle , and there are few players about who you an say that . |
| 19 | Will Carling , the captain of England , is travelling there for the first time and the selectors decided not to weigh him down with the cares of office . |
| 20 | ‘ Of course he would n't take a bribe from you , or anyone , come to that , and especially someone trying to bribe him out of the country because of a woman — one he happens to love very much . ’ |
| 21 | The voice seemed familiar and he felt he should recognise it , but at first he felt it only as a persuasive force tugging at him , trying to draw him back from the comfort and welcome of the light . |
| 22 | When Swan heard that Harvey was at the Ministry of Transport , he tried to draw him out on the subject of motorways in Warwickshire , but the junior Minister in charge of roads said that this was not the time or place to discuss the subject . |
| 23 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 24 | She turned her head towards the servant who had just hurried to let him in to the audience-chamber , and put out an imperious hand to arrest his attention . |
| 25 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 26 | This , of course , has provided an extra excuse for the highly protective Kinnocks to keep him out of the firing line . |
| 27 | Even if it was n't quite enough finesse to keep him out of the loony bin . |
| 28 | With Goodman 's hamstring injury certain to keep him out of the weekend 's home clash with Brentford , Colquhoun looks set to be handed another chance to prove himself to the fans . |
| 29 | The injuries are almost certain to keep him out of the Christmas cracker match at the National Ground on Monday and hand his two biggest rivals for the Welsh No 10 jersey the chance to shine . |
| 30 | We were warned to keep him out of the bedrooms , and for days we resisted the howls and barks and pneumatic drill impersonations . |