Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 3 | When they stepped into the street the damp warmth hit her in the face and the heat of the pavements struck through the thin soles of her shoes so that every step of the way was like treading on hot cinders . |
| 4 | It was only then that Old Red noticed me in the car . |
| 5 | A German visitor lost his in the silence of a British Rail first-class compartment and uncoupled the coach as a gesture of solidarity with the plebs in the second class . |
| 6 | After all , if the British government knifed him in the back when he was pursuing their patriotic interest , what was the point of going on ? |
| 7 | The romance of the French Foreign Legion struck me in the same way , and especially the exhibits from Kolwezi and Chad , where there were photographs of camouflaged paras with shaved heads and sunglasses helping starving babies . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | A cops and robbers chase through the docks with our official mini caught him in the act of phoning home , where we arrived just in time to stop his wife disposing of a large bag of goodies . |
| 10 | He felt a second shot hit him in the back and knock him off his feet . |
| 11 | There is no evidence , however , for thinking that , in general , people who reckon descent in the male line reckoned it in the female line before . |
| 12 | Warm slobber hit him in the face . |
| 13 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 14 | The veiled Daughter kicked her in the side . |
| 15 | THE father of an alleged rape victim told a jury yesterday of the shock he experienced when his 22-year-old daughter roused him in the middle of the night . |
| 16 | The friendly policeman looked him in the eye . |
| 17 | A very good friend helped me in the house at this time in our lives , and Shanti loved her dearly . |
| 18 | This well-meaning attempt to steer clear of one awkward topic landed them in the midst of another . |
| 19 | I agreed with that definition when the Prime Minister offered it in the House in July . |
| 20 | That punch put him in the Guinness Book of Records with the quickest KO in history when he flattened American Johnny Ellis in 12secs in November 1990 , and he has claimed two other victims in 19secs and 27secs respectively . |
| 21 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 22 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 23 | Suddenly a heavy hand whacked him in the shoulder blades . |
| 24 | Persistent allegations of ill-treatment of suspects and discontent with his old-style discipline left him in the cold . |
| 25 | In the heady fire of consummation Gina knew that the aching loneliness which had dogged her throughout her life was finally ended , her own desire rising to match Rune 's as their mutual need drowned them in the remorselessly rising tide of satisfaction . |
| 26 | One round hit him in the right shoulder , at the rear . |
| 27 | Yet if Mosley came to see Lloyd George as a fellow economic radical , objections to the management of Irish policy divided them in the early 1920s . |
| 28 | And the hump-backed blueness behind her spread a flat sheet of flesh as the first sunbeam touched it in the valley of shadow . |
| 29 | When she tried to hang on to the cash one man punched her in the face and they both escaped . |
| 30 | As the inquest broke for lunch one relative cornered him in the street . |