Example sentences of "[noun sg] hit her [prep] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ 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 .
2 As she watched him striding up the beach she tried to consider what he had said but with his loss the full weight of her grief hit her with a thud that stopped her eyes , her ears , her brain .
3 She felt like crying as dejection hit her like a ton of bricks .
4 The fear that it might show on her face caused her to turn away from him and hasten towards the food hampers , and as she did so a shock revelation hit her with full force .
5 Baby hurt as firework hits her on head
6 A head collar was eventually put on her in the chute , and when she threw her head up in anxiety a roustabout hit her on the face with a lump of wood ‘ for being so stupid ! ’
7 Shock hit her like a blow .
8 Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility , the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain .
9 When catastrophe hit her in the shape of the Town & County Bank stopping payment , she was ruined .
10 When they stepped into the street the damp warmth hit her in the face and the heat of the pavements struck through the thin soles of her shoes so that every step of the way was like treading on hot cinders .
11 A sharp blow hit her between the shoulder blades and she wheeled round to see the woman who had spat at her leaning down to pick up another stone .
12 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 .
13 She opened it , the noise hit her like something solid , worse than breaks she thought grimly .
14 The winch hit her in the small of the back and she yelped .
15 Ruth exhaled a hugh sigh of relief as she stepped out of the hotel foyer into fierce sunlight and a wall of hot air hit her after the cool of the air-conditioning .
16 A thought hit her between the eyes .
17 But — the thought hit her like a wave — it was already too late .
18 The steam hit her like a white-hot slap .
19 The idea hit her like a thunderbolt and she spun round , heading back towards the main entrance , remembering that there was an enquiries desk there .
20 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 .
21 He saw her breasts spilling across her ribs and that chip missing from her tooth where her brother hit her with a stone .
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