Example sentences of "the [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 .
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