Example sentences of "[subord] [pos pn] [noun sg] hit " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 He saw her breasts spilling across her ribs and that chip missing from her tooth where her brother hit her with a stone .
2 He found the harness release , unlocked it and remembers falling until his head hit the canopy .
3 John : Right , Have you ever seen , say if your cat hit a bird , have you ever seen it ?
4 He died because his car hit a wall .
5 I clambered into the trench and was asleep before my head hit the ground .
6 After their feud hit the headlines , Broccolli ceased conducting the secret auditions and made Moore an offer he could n't refuse to play Bond several more times .
7 Three soldiers are in hospital with serious injuries after their car hit a motorway crashbarrier and flew over a hedge .
8 Colin Jones , 31 , plucked four children and two adults to safety after their Montego hit a van and burst into flames on the M18 near Doncaster .
9 It just started from there and Michael said he liked the way I played and that he would help me along in the industry , and this was just before his career hit .
10 He was dead before his body hit the floor .
11 Mr Watts , 55 , an experienced pilot , died with three friends after his plane hit a mountain on a remote Scottish island .
12 PENSIONER Frank Marshall escaped electrocution yesterday after his car hit a lamp-post and touched live wires .
13 Harry Serbronski was after his car hit a telephone pole at 86 miles an hour . ’
14 Philip Smith , of Stanghow Road , was poorly but stable in Middlesbrough General Hospital last night after his car hit a wall on Stanghow Road , between Lingdale and Skelton , Cleveland .
15 Worse was to come , as my spade hit something solid that would n't respond to leverage .
16 I found that the edge of my left hand was cramped up when I attempted to negotiate the upper frets and any urgency in so doing was rewarded by a considerable jolt as my hand hit the buffers , so to speak .
17 She felt her legs being pushed up over her head and heard the crack as her ankle hit a lump of granite .
18 Betty was asleep as soon as her head hit the pillow .
19 He swung the bike downriver as her weight hit the pillion .
20 Nina knew , as her stomach hit her again , that he was going to take a bite out of it .
21 Two teenagers were hurt when their car hit a telegraph pole in Cleveland .
22 Diatryma seems , after all , to have been a meat-eater , its head reinforced not so much to cut through meat as to cope with the sudden shocks when its bite hit bone .
23 She had stopped crying when her mother hit her , partly out of pride , but partly out of spite because she always felt her tears gave her mother pleasure .
24 A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree .
25 Cantona had one chance in the game when his shot hit a defender .
26 He had been banned for three years for drink-driving in January , 1991. 18-month ban A DRINK-driver fractured three ribs when his car hit a skip , Wirral magistrates were told yesterday .
27 There was a thump as his shopping hit the floor .
28 He then fainted and there was a loud bang as his head hit the floor .
29 Within a minute of coming on , substitute Tony O'Donovan put Didcot right back in to the game and then Paul Spittle was so unlucky not to level the scores as his shot hit the post .
30 ‘ Ow ! ’ cried Zach as his knee hit the step ladder .
  Next page