Example sentences of "he was [verb] in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 2 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 3 | He was regarded in the industry as the main driving force behind the acquisitions . |
| 4 | He was shot in the thigh while trying to avoid arrest at the Danish frontier in May 1945 , and tried for treason in London in September . |
| 5 | Mr Jacks , 23 , whose parents live in Welshpool , bled to death after he was shot in the thigh when three masked men burst into his flat in Putney , south-west London , on June 5 . |
| 6 | He was shot in the chest . |
| 7 | She says he was shot in the chest . |
| 8 | He was shot in the back . |
| 9 | Oral tradition affirms that the Camerons as well as the Stewarts of Appin were actively countenancing two , if not three , attempts on Glenure 's life on 14 May 1752 , the day on which he was shot in the back by a killer who escaped unrecognized . |
| 10 | The last poker hand dealt to Wild Bill Hickok , just before he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in Deadwood City , South Dakota . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people followed the cortege of Mr Peacock , a prison officer , from his Joanmount Park home where he was shot in the back to the Holy Trinity Parish Church on the Oldpark Road , in north Belfast . |
| 12 | In the first wave of the attack he was shot in the head and thrown on top of me . |
| 13 | Navid Sadiq , 15 , died two days after he was shot in the head during the hold-up at his uncle Nasser Ali 's shop , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 14 | 10 year old Richard Hall playing with his brother , Clark at the spot near their Banbury home , where just 3 days ago he was shot in the head . |
| 15 | An inquest on Grant Mann has been told that he was shot in the head at close range . |
| 16 | He was shot in the heart five years ago . |
| 17 | Mr Thompson , sen , had been receiving sickness and invalidity benefit — about £93 a week — for the effects of a 1988 gunshot wound to his side after he was shot in the street as he walked home . |
| 18 | In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London . |
| 19 | Riding with his wife in an open car through Dallas , he was shot in the neck and head by an assassin . |
| 20 | He was absorbed in the business of picking horses , from which he did modestly well . |
| 21 | ‘ I thought he was loved in the city , like a king or something . ’ |
| 22 | Educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge , he was to remain in the college for the rest of his life . |
| 23 | According to an apocryphal story he was stopped in the foyer and asked what advice he would give to an eager undergraduate embarking on a career . |
| 24 | Dyer was eventually censured by a committee of inquiry , but substantial sums were raised for him by public subscription and he was adulated in the press , the House of Commons , and — especially — the House of Lords . |
| 25 | Anything else the guard may have remembered is of no value for he was killed in the crash . |
| 26 | ‘ It looks as though he was killed in the south porch of the church . |
| 27 | Sergeant Cork made more than sure it would not enter the battle : setting off a large demolition charge , he was killed in the blast . |
| 28 | He was killed in the war and then she married my father . |
| 29 | ‘ Alas no , Madame , he was killed in the war . ’ |
| 30 | He was killed in the war . ’ |