Example sentences of "he [adv prt] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 2 | They followed him out of the camp in single file and headed along the riverbank , making for watering places where buffalo liked to wallow in the heat of the day . |
| 3 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 4 | ‘ Will she manage to get him out of the USA ? ’ |
| 5 | Apart from Gatting , who is seen as a near-certainty for England 's winder tour of India , others who may come back into the international reckoning are Chris Broad , Alan Wells , Matthew Maynard and John Emburey , while Neil Foster ( another South African tourist ) might have been considered for the winter tour but for a knee injury which kept him out of the Essex side for the last part of the season . |
| 6 | ‘ Come on , ’ she said , and whisked him out of the bathroom . |
| 7 | Even as he did get his bearings a great tree swirled towards him out of the night and a rook he never saw rose up in alarm , cawing darkly away into the storm . |
| 8 | REVERSE : Weather stunning , food great , Chris has found some snorkelling gear and now I ca n't get him out of the water ! |
| 9 | Once Chang pulled rank on Callahan at Sunset and ordered him out of the water . |
| 10 | Nails ' foot hooked for him , picked him out of the water and , with a neat thrust to the chest , stood him upright . |
| 11 | They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned . |
| 12 | They fished him out of the water . |
| 13 | Worthless character had now run foul of the law and was willing to take one final payment , enough to get him out of the State , and out of her life for ever . |
| 14 | He gasped out his news even as Corbett , who had hurried down from his chamber , helped him out of the saddle . |
| 15 | The wizard tried to hang on but another low branch , stouter than the others , knocked him out of the saddle . |
| 16 | Nobody would pull him out of the sea . |
| 17 | Having grabbed the idea of the airline with both hands , Branson was now trying to squeeze him out of the operation altogether . |
| 18 | She let the clutch in and drove towards the road ; she waved at him out of the window . |
| 19 | The weight of the Zodiac plucked him out of the cockpit like a pip out of a ripe olive and he screamed with the terror of drowning as he struck the water . |
| 20 | He brought him out of the bar . |
| 21 | Willie followed him out of the back gate and across the tiny road , Sam scampering after them . |
| 22 | I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest . |
| 23 | Virgin were the only company that could pull him out of the hole , and it was to Virgin that McLaren now turned , cap in hand . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist . |
| 26 | ‘ Broke him out of the Priory , you mean ? ’ |
| 27 | She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter . |
| 28 | The man rang off but was soon contacted by officers from the force 's Firearms Unit who ordered him out of the building on Crosshall Street . |
| 29 | India were handicapped by Prabhakar 's stomach strains , which kept him out of the attack . |
| 30 | And although Hick hit him out of the attack briefly , producing a second cameo of the series which included an extraordinary one-handed straight six , Patel returned downwind to sneak one through before the Zimbabwean could reach a maiden Test half-century . |