Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] him in the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 A branch whipped him in the face .
2 Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ .
3 When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye .
4 Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress .
5 The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage .
6 Grimma prodded him in the stomach .
7 The handlebar caught him in the groin .
8 Davide had turned up a coin , one afternoon , when he was mooning around ; it was a common enough type , the professor told him in the museum at Riba , where he took it for an opinion .
9 " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks .
10 He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there .
11 It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’
12 His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses .
13 As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face .
14 Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’
15 Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up .
16 Hitch shot him in the face , watching as he toppled backwards , most of his bottom jaw blown off by the close-range blast .
17 The club struck him in the stomach again , dripping him to his knees , and there was a sudden crack that seemed unnaturally loud in the silence .
18 I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby .
19 What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ?
20 Maud caught him in the doorway of his hotel one evening .
21 He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub .
22 He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach .
23 The whole contra operation was ‘ for God and Country , ’ , Owen said North told him in the beginning ; at its end , it had all still been done ‘ in the best interests of the United States of America ’ .
24 Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft .
25 ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . "
26 Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble .
27 Sandison looked him in the eye .
28 Curtis put him in the picture ; his large , powerful hands seemed to tear vivid images out of thin air .
29 And it was n't just it was by pure coincidence , I mean his kidneys would have stopped anyway , that bloke thumped him in the pub .
30 Wilson , more respectfully treated at Lord 's , where he recently stood down as MCC coach , than in his native county , offered Carrick wise counsel when the youngster replaced him in the Yorkshire side .
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