Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [verb] him in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave the union leaders the opportunity to tell him in a forthright manner where they thought he was going wrong with his policies and he in turn did some pretty plain talking about what he saw as their shortcomings . |
| 2 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 3 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 6 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 7 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 12 | ( 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 . " |
| 13 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 14 | Thus ( 66 ) implies " He did n't dare oppose his wife 's whims any more than he dared commit high treason " , ( 67 ) that the speaker is of the opinion that they would n't dare say a word against him , and in ( 68 ) the speaker very clearly believes that the addressee does n't have the cheek to look him in the eye and tell such an obvious lie . |
| 15 | He stands , arms outstretched like an ancient knight , whilst the remainder of the team dress him in the EOD suit . |
| 16 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity or his ownership of any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 17 | He therefore need not be cautioned if questions are put for other purposes , for example , to establish his identity , his ownership of , or responsibility for , any vehicle or the need to search him in the exercise of powers of stop and search . |
| 18 | He 's a good passer of the ball have him in the middle . |
| 19 | The ball bashed him in the face , before Mike Jeffrey bashed home Doncaster 's second . |
| 20 | He must first obtain leave to move for judicial review and then , if he obtains leave , must succeed in persuading the court to help him in the exercise of its supervisory jurisdiction . |
| 21 | This looked promising : 3 He is produced by fusion , there is an excessive abundance of the substance in volcanic gases so maybe here was the evidence staring him in the face that fusion is taking place among the volcanic rocks . |
| 22 | I always knew I would be apprenticed to Joe as soon as I was old enough , and so I used to spend most of the day helping him in the forge . |
| 23 | Again , Atrakhasis was warned , the god instructing him in a dream to build a boat , take on board his family and animals , and explain his action to his fellow men as a punishment inflicted upon him which would bring benefit to them . |
| 24 | The undertaker took him in a pushchair |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He did not recognize the man approaching him in a quiet corner of the drawing room , but feared he might be a drunken bore . |
| 27 | ‘ Some folk in the city see him in a different light . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | I cleared the gun and fired at the Corporal , the burst hitting him in the chest and knocking him backwards into a line of sheets which he brought winding down around him . |