Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [pers pn] 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 handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ( 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 . ) |
| 6 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 7 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 8 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When the meal was ready Ianthe ate it in the dining room , which opened on to the garden now piled with drifts of sycamore leaves . |
| 11 | It was difficult to remember the route , but Lowell 's van in the bottom field signposted them in the right direction . |
| 12 | One flying fist caught her in the throat . |
| 13 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 14 | When the blessed saint visited us in the church there , as before in vision , she came with showers of may-blossom . |
| 15 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 16 | The chairman of the committee telephoned me in the late spring of 1976 to say that they were organising a series of public meetings at Wapping when the committee 's plans for the area would be disclosed to the local population for the purpose of hearing their comments and enquiries . |
| 17 | That is the same price Leeds council paid them in the mid 1980 's and about £2.5m less than the local authority are looking for now . |
| 18 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 19 | ( 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 . " |
| 20 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 21 | Fierce Eyes ' spear took it in the shoulder . |
| 22 | Faced with narrow options , the Chancellor broadened them in the only way realistically open to him — chronologically . |
| 23 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 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 | Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine . |
| 29 | Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them . |
| 30 | A bomb hit us in the night , d' ya not know that ? |