Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alison met him in the same bar . |
| 2 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 3 | Two months later Minton visited him in the country , pale from a pub crawl in Ipswich , and seemed to Lehmann ‘ more settled with Rickie [ sic[ off the booze ’ . |
| 4 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 5 | Inevitably , his steps led him in the end to the Corso , where the evening promenade was in progress . |
| 6 | Grimma prodded him in the stomach . |
| 7 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 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 | Late that evening , Corbett was found by a servant sent by Selkirk , who announced in broad Scots that the knight would be grateful if Corbett joined him in the outer bailey near the main gate . |
| 10 | ( 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 . ) |
| 11 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 12 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 13 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 14 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 15 | Hitch shot him in the face , watching as he toppled backwards , most of his bottom jaw blown off by the close-range blast . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Winter had to aim Mandarin for the middle course but his mount started wandering off to the left before pressure from the vice-like grip of the jockey 's thighs pointed him in the right direction . |
| 18 | What was Jesus doing when his parents found him in the Temple at the end of their search for him ? |
| 19 | Maud caught him in the doorway of his hotel one evening . |
| 20 | He did not know of it , a thought which after a few minutes occurred to Wainfleet when Wickham encountered him in the pub . |
| 21 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 22 | The whole contra operation was ‘ for God and Country , ’ , Owen said North told him in the beginning ; at its end , it had all still been done ‘ in the best interests of the United States of America ’ . |
| 23 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 24 | ( 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 . " |
| 25 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 26 | Sandison looked him in the eye . |
| 27 | Curtis put him in the picture ; his large , powerful hands seemed to tear vivid images out of thin air . |
| 28 | And it was n't just it was by pure coincidence , I mean his kidneys would have stopped anyway , that bloke thumped him in the pub . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Andrew Wadling was forced to pull out , and Terry Dowsett and Steve Kerns replaced him in the number three seed position , but neither survived the first round . |