Example sentences of "the [noun sg] hit [pers pn] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses . |
| 2 | Billie hurled herself at them , tried to push them away from Adam , but the storm-trooper with the bucket hit her across the head with it , sent her sprawling backwards across the room . |
| 3 | The man with the shotgun hit him with the butt of the weapon , driving it deep into his stomach , doubling him over , dropping him to the floor . |
| 4 | ‘ HA HA HA HA HA HA , ’ the little girl went in the next picture-square , and ‘ BONK read the bubble as the typewriter hit her at the end of the joke . |
| 5 | ( 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 . " |
| 6 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 7 | Bowers said : ‘ The ball hit me on the head — I did n't handle it . |
| 8 | Sheridan said : ‘ The ball hit me in the face . |
| 9 | The winch hit her in the small of the back and she yelped . |
| 10 | The beadle hit him on the back , and so naturally Oliver cried even more . |
| 11 | But erm , the next one went can I have an ice-cream please ? and the the man hit him over the with the head with a baseball bat and he died . |
| 12 | The master hit him with the serving spoon , then seized Oliver 's arms and shouted for the beadle . |
| 13 | One was a 50-year-old woman sitting on a shooting stick who had her spleen ruptured when the bird hit her in the back ; the other was the pregnant wife of Swiss businessman Luc Argand , who was knocked off a wall at the Floors Castle estate near Kelso in the Scottish Borders . |
| 14 | But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity . |