Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vet left them in the staff room while they tried to discuss Lizzie 's future . |
| 2 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 3 | Stories which Richard Burton brought out again and again because he was proud to celebrate his past and would not let any bounty or glamour of the present put it in the shade . |
| 4 | As I followed her up the pathway , every inch of her breathed that she was being a good girl , and as the driver settled her in the front seat beside him she gave him a happy smile ; almost , one felt — seeing the hat-boxes and cases piled up behind them — they might have been starting out on their honeymoon . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 7 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 8 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 14 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 15 | ( 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 . " |
| 16 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 17 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 18 | In a nasty , but highly entertaining tirade , one of the more perceptive remarks was that if it was n't for The Wedding Present , Ukrainian music would be confined solely to Blue Peter specials ; surely one of the main reasons the band did it in the first place . |
| 19 | The ball bashed him in the face , before Mike Jeffrey bashed home Doncaster 's second . |
| 20 | Sheridan said : ‘ The ball hit me in the face . |
| 21 | The winch hit her in the small of the back and she yelped . |
| 22 | The old cow at the counter popped them in the microwave to warm them for him . |
| 23 | The helicopter found her in the vicinity of Kammies . |
| 24 | Organised by the same curator as the Bagatelle exhibition , Solange Auzias de Turenne , ‘ Moore Intime ’ features a life-size reconstruction of rooms from Moore 's house , ‘ Hoglands ’ , complete with contents down to the books in the same order as the artist left them in the bookcases , and items from his art collection which served as inspiration for his work . |
| 25 | The Directive made the adoption of this defence optional and , despite strenuous attempts by the consumer lobby to have it rejected , the government included it in the Act . |
| 26 | The floor punched me in the nose and I stretched out on it . |
| 27 | I could n't see why the man kept it in the shop if it was n't for sale . |
| 28 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |