Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [vb past] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 2 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 3 | He did n't want to run into Ballater again ; his wish to purchase the cottage put him in the enemy camp and threatened his peace . |
| 4 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 5 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 6 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 11 | ( 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 . " |
| 12 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 13 | The ball bashed him in the face , before Mike Jeffrey bashed home Doncaster 's second . |
| 14 | The undertaker took him in a pushchair |
| 15 | The society told him in a letter : ‘ We would advise that as you retired from work in December of last year , you are no longer eligible for cover under this policy . |
| 16 | The doctor put him in the middle or late fifties , though , being a doctor , he hedged a bit by saying he might be anywhere between forty-five and sixty . |
| 17 | The equally indomitable Dunwoody had his second fall of the day on Calabrese and completed a painful hat-trick when King of The Lot unseated him in the Tote 7th Handicap Chase , won by Howe Street . |
| 18 | But the bobby fell to the ground as the raider blasted him in the groin with a shotgun . |
| 19 | Luck playing a somewhat greater part in the matter than judgement , the bullet struck him in the calf , tore through the muscles there and exited , spattering the wall behind with blood and pink tissue . |
| 20 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |
| 21 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 22 | A wave slapped him in the mouth . |
| 23 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 24 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 25 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |
| 26 | Then the unit going to Belfast , and the day a sniper killed him in the Crumlin Road . |
| 27 | Robert Harris established his name many years ago as a designer of sound blue water cruising yachts , so it was no surprise when a couple tackled him in the late 1960s to design for them a small yacht that would take them from Canada to New Zealand in both comfort and safety . |
| 28 | The Yak banked again , came in fast , cannon shell punching into the Stork and Farber cried out as a bullet caught him in the shoulder . |
| 29 | His big break came when an agent spotted him in a prison production of the Tempest and signed him up . |
| 30 | ‘ Sir William the Good ’ , an Indian called him in a farewell tribute . |