Example sentences of "[vb pp] in the eye [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man has been charged after a policeman was stabbed in the eye with a wooden stick . |
| 2 | FLAMBOYANT Tory MP Sir Nicholas Fairbairn was recovering yesterday after being shot in the eye as neighbours potted clay pigeons . |
| 3 | LITTLE Christopher Cunliffe was shot in the eye by his dad 's best mate — after the family friend joked he would ‘ quieten him down ’ by pointing an air rifle at him . |
| 4 | And you got this boy who 's shot in the eye by pellets twice who 's got , Mum ! |
| 5 | Reynolds and Gainsborough were much indebted to Ramsay 's example , but being louder talents altogether , have tended in the eye of posterity to eclipse Ramsay 's quiet genius . |
| 6 | Now if you damage yourself by whatever way , and the classic one that we see at school is if you get banged in the eye in rugby , somebody elbows you in the scrum or something similar , you then get a swelling caused by what ? |
| 7 | but had buckled in the eye of some storm or other |
| 8 | But by misfortune his telescope had now wandered back again and was trained on the Cutcherry at the very moment that it exploded with a flash that burnt itself so deeply into the Collector 's brain that he reeled , as if struck in the eye by a musket ball And then there was nothing but smoke , dust , debris , and a crash which dropped a picture from the wall behind him . |
| 9 | At the so-called Punk Festival at the 100 Club in September 1976 , a girl was struck in the eye by a flying splinter of glass . |
| 10 | He and his wife , Betty , who was hit in the eye by flying fragments , have not lived in the house since , according to neighbours . |
| 11 | So let us say er well let's take an example , you 've just been er hit in the eye by a hockey ball hit by our friend Jonathan . |
| 12 | Patrick , 68 , was hit in the eye by a fast ball that flew off the wicket-keeper 's boot as he fielded in the slips . |
| 13 | Its engine failed in the eye of the storm as it headed through the Bristol Channel on its way from Middlesbrough to Newport . |