Example sentences of "him out of the [noun sg] " 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 ‘ Come on , ’ she said , and whisked him out of the bathroom .
5 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 .
6 REVERSE : Weather stunning , food great , Chris has found some snorkelling gear and now I ca n't get him out of the water !
7 Once Chang pulled rank on Callahan at Sunset and ordered him out of the water .
8 Nails ' foot hooked for him , picked him out of the water and , with a neat thrust to the chest , stood him upright .
9 They 'd fished him out of the water , so presumably he 'd drowned .
10 They fished him out of the water .
11 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 .
12 He gasped out his news even as Corbett , who had hurried down from his chamber , helped him out of the saddle .
13 The wizard tried to hang on but another low branch , stouter than the others , knocked him out of the saddle .
14 Nobody would pull him out of the sea .
15 Having grabbed the idea of the airline with both hands , Branson was now trying to squeeze him out of the operation altogether .
16 She let the clutch in and drove towards the road ; she waved at him out of the window .
17 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 .
18 He brought him out of the bar .
19 Willie followed him out of the back gate and across the tiny road , Sam scampering after them .
20 I used to watch him out of the back attic window in the late afternoon , when he had risen from his rest .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 Quiss heard rapid footsteps approaching through the racket , and ahead of him he saw two small scullions running towards him out of the mist .
24 ‘ Broke him out of the Priory , you mean ? ’
25 She 'd seen him many times then , everyone else had dropped him , and only moneyed privilege had kept him out of the gutter .
26 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 .
27 India were handicapped by Prabhakar 's stomach strains , which kept him out of the attack .
28 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 .
29 In São Paulo , he was about to find out , but a complex series of engine mishaps put him out of the race .
30 Once he nearly caught it but someone pushed him out of the way at the last moment .
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