Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] him 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 | Hooks of meat , barrows of vegetables , trays of pies , urns of tea passed him in every direction . |
| 5 | The handlebar caught him in the groin . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ( 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 . ) |
| 8 | As he raised his binoculars to scan the coast , the wind struck him in the face . |
| 9 | Got killed when that horse kicked him in the head . ’ |
| 10 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 11 | His big break came when an agent spotted him in a prison production of the Tempest and signed him up . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The Economist interviewed him in a chintzy suite at Claridge 's . |
| 14 | He gasped with pain as the head of the smaller boy caught him in the stomach . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Four photographs of the wearer showed him in the act of jumping from an aircraft . |
| 17 | ( 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 . " |
| 18 | ‘ Sir William the Good ’ , an Indian called him in a farewell tribute . |
| 19 | Even now the recollection seized him in the abdomen , and a kind of sick longing made him tremble . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | TV STAR Leslie Crowther went home for Christmas dinner yesterday two months after a road crash left him in a coma . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He ended up with another sub-par round and the leader board showed him in a tie for second place behind Carlssen , who had played another superb round to be nine under par . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Rain trapped him in the corner by the empty water machine . |
| 26 | Rain joined him in the doorway but there was no time to speak before Cobalt splashed through the puddle to them . |
| 27 | Newley 's body ambushed him in the darkness . |
| 28 | 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 ? ’ |
| 29 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 30 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |