Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 2 | Clarkson 's narrative revealed his own perseverance and commitment until exhaustion and financial difficulty overtook him in 1794 and Hoare fastened upon Clarkson 's continuing ‘ zeal ’ . |
| 3 | that experience changed him in every way . |
| 4 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 5 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 6 | A journalist attacked him in 1791 for the ‘ permanent predominant prejudice , that the music is everything , and the words , nothing ’ at the Opéra : ‘ one is made aware of just one author , the author of the music . ’ |
| 7 | The Mayor rebuked him in warm terms , whereupon the elegant creature said , hotly : ‘ Who are you to talk to me like that ? ’ |
| 8 | — Like Mrs Plews , Mr Jim Tomlinson , of Richmond , found the study helped him in his work as a teacher at Risedale School , Hipswell , Catterick Garrison . |
| 9 | His father was a tailor and for some years the young Steen helped him in his business . |
| 10 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 11 | In Denmark the same year Prime Minister Schluter went to the polls after a social democrat coalition defeated him in Parliament and ruled that NATO ships coming to Denmark must be nuclear weapon free . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The US President received him in 1978 and so did the Queen — but the purges went on . |
| 14 | Having tried to arrange repatriation and found it hopeless , he was resigned to whatever future faced him in Germany . |
| 15 | In the Hexham vacancy of 1866 the diocesan chapter included him in its terna , and in the same year Henry Manning , archbishop of Westminster [ q.v. ] , suggested him to Rome as coadjutor archbishop of Sydney , Australia . |
| 16 | The man in the dock watched him in silence as he sat down heavily in his chair . |
| 17 | ( Paradoxically the release of tension enabled him in the next week to run up , turn out , patch together , a poetical melodrama about Cabestainh with which the house-guests had some civilised fun . ) |
| 18 | Transfer to the Admiralty enabled him in 1920 to attend evening classes in writing and illuminating at the Central School of Arts and Crafts . |
| 19 | The club put him in touch with an obliging volunteer . |
| 20 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 21 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 22 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 23 | His big break came when an agent spotted him in a prison production of the Tempest and signed him up . |
| 24 | ‘ I 've earned it ! ’ … a bright , distant light halted him in his tracks ! |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 27 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 28 | A third ad showed him in a bathrobe seated cross-legged on a chair in a tropical tableau flanked man , hugging two freshly-scrubbed pigs . |
| 29 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 30 | ( 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 . " |