Example sentences of "he was [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E was shot in the chest . |
| 2 | A doctor who 's just returned from helping victims of the civil war in Somalia has been describing how the surgeon next to him was shot in the operating theatre as they were trying to save a patient 's life . |
| 3 | ‘ The respect in which he was held by everyone who knew him was reflected in the very large numbers that attended . ’ |
| 4 | He was regarded in the industry as the main driving force behind the acquisitions . |
| 5 | He was lumped in the same class as telly slob Rab C. Nesbitt in a survey out yesterday . |
| 6 | In the first wave of the attack he was shot in the head and thrown on top of me . |
| 7 | He was shot in the back . |
| 8 | Navid Sadiq , 15 , died two days after he was shot in the head during the hold-up at his uncle Nasser Ali 's shop , the Old Bailey heard . |
| 9 | He was shot in the chest . |
| 10 | Riding with his wife in an open car through Dallas , he was shot in the neck and head by an assassin . |
| 11 | Oral tradition affirms that the Camerons as well as the Stewarts of Appin were actively countenancing two , if not three , attempts on Glenure 's life on 14 May 1752 , the day on which he was shot in the back by a killer who escaped unrecognized . |
| 12 | In 1918 he was shot in the knee while on a bombing raid and spent some time in hospital before being awarded an army scholarship , which enabled him to complete his studies at the City and Guilds College , London . |
| 13 | He was shot in the thigh while trying to avoid arrest at the Danish frontier in May 1945 , and tried for treason in London in September . |
| 14 | He was shot in the heart five years ago . |
| 15 | The last poker hand dealt to Wild Bill Hickok , just before he was shot in the back by Jack McCall in Deadwood City , South Dakota . |
| 16 | The plaintiff went to work in a new job after the accident and while at work he was shot in the left leg during an armed robbery . |
| 17 | 10 year old Richard Hall playing with his brother , Clark at the spot near their Banbury home , where just 3 days ago he was shot in the head . |
| 18 | An inquest on Grant Mann has been told that he was shot in the head at close range . |
| 19 | She says he was shot in the chest . |
| 20 | Hundreds of people followed the cortege of Mr Peacock , a prison officer , from his Joanmount Park home where he was shot in the back to the Holy Trinity Parish Church on the Oldpark Road , in north Belfast . |
| 21 | Mr Jacks , 23 , whose parents live in Welshpool , bled to death after he was shot in the thigh when three masked men burst into his flat in Putney , south-west London , on June 5 . |
| 22 | Mr Thompson , sen , had been receiving sickness and invalidity benefit — about £93 a week — for the effects of a 1988 gunshot wound to his side after he was shot in the street as he walked home . |
| 23 | He was absorbed in the business of picking horses , from which he did modestly well . |
| 24 | Soon he was absorbed in the workings of the pistol , which was designed according to principles that were new to him . |
| 25 | ‘ I thought he was loved in the city , like a king or something . ’ |
| 26 | Educated at Sir George Monoux Grammar School and Sidney Sussex College , Cambridge , he was to remain in the college for the rest of his life . |
| 27 | According to an apocryphal story he was stopped in the foyer and asked what advice he would give to an eager undergraduate embarking on a career . |
| 28 | He conceded 12lb and paid the penalty when he was stopped in the third round . |
| 29 | His reign as champion , however , lasted only two months and he was stopped in the tenth round of a return contest in New York City . |
| 30 | After winning his first 13 fights , Ferguson 's career slump started when he was stopped in the 10th round by former contender Carl Williams in August 1985 . |