Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] he in [art] " in BNC.

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1 A branch whipped him in the face .
2 that experience changed him in every way .
3 When Thomas tried to grab the child away , the lash caught him in the eye .
4 The Office tells us that he arranged for his sister to meet him in a nearby wood and to bring with her two of her over-dresses , one white and one grey , and his father 's rainhood .
5 Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction .
6 The second lorry ran into the car 's side sandwiching him in the wreckage .
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 " 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 .
10 He marries Julia Maplesone , whose extravagance lands him in the Fleet Prison , and who deserts him whilst he is there .
11 It costs a great deal to keep him in the home , as well as your father . ’
12 ( 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 . )
13 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 .
14 His unflappability deserted him in the face of by-election reverses .
15 As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face .
16 Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’
17 Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up .
18 His big break came when an agent spotted him in a prison production of the Tempest and signed him up .
19 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 .
20 Anger roared inside her and she opened her mouth to tell him in no uncertain terms where to go , only she did n't have a chance to utter even one heated word , as he bent and covered her parted lips with his , kissing her with a thoroughness that left her shaken .
21 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 .
22 I ca n't see any horse beating him in the Kentucky Derby .
23 The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's .
24 He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach .
25 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 .
26 Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft .
27 ( 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 . "
28 He had only walked a few yards when he noticed an elderly lady approaching him in a somewhat hesitant manner .
29 ‘ Sir William the Good ’ , an Indian called him in a farewell tribute .
30 His years in England as a student of law involved him in an earnest effort of adaptation , and it is clear from his own account that he absorbed through his reading and his acquaintance a sense of British moral aspiration , for which he acquired a genuine respect .
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