Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] him in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 2 | When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye . |
| 3 | The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage . |
| 4 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 7 | He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there . |
| 8 | It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’ |
| 9 | ( 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 . ) |
| 10 | In 1318 , after an attempt to poison him in the previous year , John XXII thanked Margaret for sending him ‘ a certain knife-handle in serpentine form ’ which was reputed to detect poison . |
| 11 | His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | On the other hand , the buyer will wish to have the comfort of the guarantee , and , in addition , whatever rights law and statute grant him in the particular circumstances of the case . |
| 17 | I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby . |
| 18 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 19 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 20 | ( 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 . " |
| 21 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 22 | It would be a disservice to Denis Law to mention him in the same breath as some of Scotland 's more notorious hell-raisers . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | A cops and robbers chase through the docks with our official mini caught him in the act of phoning home , where we arrived just in time to stop his wife disposing of a large bag of goodies . |
| 28 | It is pointed out in Washington that the President made a special point of ensuring that Mr Major was the first European leader to meet him in the White House . |
| 29 | Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine . |
| 30 | Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them . |