Example sentences of "he [adv prt] of [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Patten — who would earn a tax-free salary of £140,000 — would be expected to remain in office until the handover in 1997 , taking him out of mainstream politics for five years . |
| 2 | I quickly talked him out of that , telling him that he must find out the truth before passing judgment , and reminding him that he had had a good marriage . |
| 3 | Likeably laid-back and a philosophic kind of personality , Hastings currently has a crucial priority — recovery from back damage that kept him out of that Second Australian Test . |
| 4 | But all the other animals had grown so suspicious of El-ahrairah and his tricks that they would not let him out of that wretched country and every day Prince Rainbow used to come walking through the marshes to make sure that El-ahrairah was still there . |
| 5 | For instance , if he has money of the client in his hands not entrusted to him for any specific purpose , there is nothing in the section to prevent his retaining the amount due to him out of that money . |
| 6 | ‘ And how much are you giving him out of that ? ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Get him out of that chair , ’ I say . |
| 8 | And even if the Prince of Gwynedd should send an army to set him free , how were they to get him out of that impregnable hold ? |
| 9 | Well , Mansell who run , won yesterday 's Portugese Grand Prix is believed to be considering several offers to tempt him out of that so-called retirement . |
| 10 | Hanns and another friend , Anne Sproat , made a costume for him out of dyed calico , on which Hanns painted huge chrysanthemums . |
| 11 | In a letter to his mother he explained that ‘ seeing God had so often heard his most humble petitions , and had delivered him out of many most eminent dangers of soul and body , and had brought his family out of most desperate calamities , he should now seek to serve Him in such a calling ’ . |
| 12 | Somewhere they 've got a , there 's a picture of him and I 've named him out of one of the photos I brought over . |
| 13 | ‘ Mr Riddle has a reputation for being a good business man , even a hard man ; did you think you stood any chance of persuading him out of two important objectives without offering anything in return ? ’ |
| 14 | Although he bought Jenny a £2,000 diamond engagement ring and happily re-settled in his Brentford mansion , his scoring prowess deserted him after a vicious tackle by Stoke 's notorious Chris Kamara left McAvennie with a broken leg , an injury that kept him out of first team football for months . |
| 15 | Though they loved him as if he were their own child they left him out of all things that mattered in the running of the house . |
| 16 | ‘ Why should I settle down with him out of all the fellows I 've been out with ? |
| 17 | Unfortunately , Bob Bigg 's Palace career was greatly reduced by a badly broken leg sustained at Newport in February 1937 , which kept him out of first-team action for fully 21 months , and some of the contemporary pundits reckoned that his absence cost us the single promotion place from Division 3 South in 1938–39 . |
| 18 | He 's got a bad knee and without the union to keep him out of hard physical work he 's stuck really — he 's got no qualifications or anything . ’ |
| 19 | Do n't anger him out of silly pride . ’ |
| 20 | Our attempts to talk him out of this merely provoked his scorn . |
| 21 | Hendrix had just managed to squeeze his way into the '70s when the Grim Reaper of rock 'n' roll dragged him out of this world , leaving only the man 's music and ‘ wild man ’ image behind for future generations to remember him by . |
| 22 | He got his way in most things , had despotically guided Stephen 's life , had chosen Lyn for him , before that had picked him out of this school , pushed him into that , as soon as he could removed him altogether from academic threat . |
| 23 | Say me a word , one enlightening word , to let him out of this cage . |
| 24 | So why put him under the pressure , she sa cos I said , I want to know what the long-term effect of me taking him out of this is , because , effectively I 'm taking him out of something of the system , knowing , he 's going to miss that . |
| 25 | Another Harlequin , Everton Davis , has been seeking a second opinion on the knee injury that forced him out of last month 's England training session . |
| 26 | Guy Armstrong 's return to the team after a knee injury forced him out of last year 's competition has also been an essential part of the reformation of a new Scottish side . |
| 27 | Clough , leading scorer at Forest for three of the last four seasons , has been wanted by a number of top clubs since his dad brought him out of local Sunday League football to Forest . |
| 28 | It will rule him out of next Monday 's FA Cup semi-final replay with Portsmouth and may even end the season for the promising Liverpool winger . |
| 29 | Reilly is confident that rest will cure Jonathan Davies 's persistent groin problem but must be concerned about Lucas 's broken wrist which threatens to keep him out of next month 's Cup final . |
| 30 | Giggs hit the heights despite feeling an ankle knock that forced his retirement 12 minutes from the end on Monday and will probably keep him out of next week 's FA Cup tie against Wigan or Bury . |