Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] he 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 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 11 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 12 | ( 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 . " |
| 13 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine . |
| 18 | Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them . |
| 19 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
| 20 | Yet Boswell and other Johnsonians report that , long before the pension , Johnson wondered aloud if holding up his right hand would have secured victory for the Stuarts at Culloden to Prince Charles 's army , he was not sure he would have held it up ; so little confidence had he in the right claimed by the house of Stuart , and so fearful was he of the consequences of another revolution on the throne of Great Britain' . |
| 21 | Joe started when Harry 's elbow caught him in the ribs as he said , ‘ I wonder if my illustrious brother will be as insufferable as he was during the Christmas holidays ? ’ |
| 22 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 23 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |
| 24 | The friendly policeman looked him in the eye . |
| 25 | The ball bashed him in the face , before Mike Jeffrey bashed home Doncaster 's second . |
| 26 | His friend kicked him in the ribs and asked him what he was doing down there . |
| 27 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 28 | Then the unit going to Belfast , and the day a sniper killed him in the Crumlin Road . |
| 29 | One round hit him in the right shoulder , at the rear . |
| 30 | That punch put him in the Guinness Book of Records with the quickest KO in history when he flattened American Johnny Ellis in 12secs in November 1990 , and he has claimed two other victims in 19secs and 27secs respectively . |