Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] he in the " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 4 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 5 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 10 | ( 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 . " |
| 11 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 12 | The ball bashed him in the face , before Mike Jeffrey bashed home Doncaster 's second . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the bobby fell to the ground as the raider blasted him in the groin with a shotgun . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |