Sentence examples for prise him off from inspiring English sources

I know many mothers of teenage sons who look on smugly as their friends with girls deal with adolescent angst, while their boys are still offering regular cuddles, and the worst thing they have to worry about is how to prise him off the computer for long enough to do his homework.

Mputu has been courted by several European clubs and had trials with Arsenal in 2007 but, used to picking up players from Africa for the sort of pittance that would not tempt Mazembe, none has been prepared to pay the lavish fee it would take to prise him away and potential suitors have also been put off by Mputu's temper.

I have to prise him away.

It will take a lot of money to prise him away from Monaco, though.

However, it would now take something special to prise him away from his project on the south coast.

Mundo Deportivo claim adidas saw an opportunity to prise him away from Barcelona, who are sponsored by Nike, however the deal came to nothing.

Gabriel Agbonlahor has pledged his future to Aston Villa and the England striker warned other clubs they would be wasting their time trying to prise him away.

Cagliari defender Davide Astori, 27, will cost Manchester United or Tottenham £8m if they want to prise him away from the Italian club.

United are aware of Bayern's resistance though they have not given up hope of prising him away for a fee in the region of €80m (£55.7m).

There is admiration, too, for Southampton's Mauricio Pochettino, though prising him away from the south coast club's ambitious chairman, Nicola Cortese, would be easier said than done.

Inspector and Sergeant had to prise him from the car.