Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him in [art] [noun sg] " 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 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 4 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 5 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 6 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 7 | Grimma prodded him in the stomach . |
| 8 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Johnny watched him in a daze . |
| 11 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 12 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 13 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 14 | His big break came when an agent spotted him in a prison production of the Tempest and signed him up . |
| 15 | Hitch shot him in the face , watching as he toppled backwards , most of his bottom jaw blown off by the close-range blast . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Maud caught him in the doorway of his hotel one evening . |
| 18 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 19 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | A third ad showed him in a bathrobe seated cross-legged on a chair in a tropical tableau flanked man , hugging two freshly-scrubbed pigs . |
| 22 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 23 | ( 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 . " |
| 24 | ‘ Sir William the Good ’ , an Indian called him in a farewell tribute . |
| 25 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 26 | Sandison looked him in the eye . |
| 27 | Curtis put him in the picture ; his large , powerful hands seemed to tear vivid images out of thin air . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | TV STAR Leslie Crowther went home for Christmas dinner yesterday two months after a road crash left him in a coma . |
| 30 | Andrew Wadling was forced to pull out , and Terry Dowsett and Steve Kerns replaced him in the number three seed position , but neither survived the first round . |