Example sentences of "hit [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ?
2 Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head .
3 You do n't even have to hit them off the ground .
4 Perhaps there was someone behind me who was just about to hit me over the head .
5 ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly .
6 They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’
7 For a moment , I thought he was going to hit me with the shoe ; then he dropped it on the floor and began to pull at my clothes .
8 Anyway today we had the scene where Matt had to hit me with the paddle sort of semi-accidentally .
9 If you want to hit me across the airport , I 'll understand , OK , but I 'm staying with Alejandro .
10 ‘ Quite a lot of people , ’ said Maisie acidly , ‘ are prepared to hit you on the head . ’
11 One or two of them may grab your arms while a third gets ready to hit you from the front .
12 And then if they come along and change anything we hit , we hit them for the , the extras .
13 ‘ We soaked up a great deal of pressure , but then hit them on the break , ’ he said .
14 They would n't recognize it if it hit them between the eyes , of its use .
15 But this young one , a very spiritual guy , like a leftover from The Deer Hunter with a black headband and black jersey , said he wanted to shoo these journalists ; he had a revolver with him all the time , he is licensed to kill and he says he 'd shoot them if they came near , and I said ‘ No , please do n't do that , I 'll get in more trouble , ’ and he said , ‘ I ‘ ll just hit them in the knee . ’
16 to look across at a group wh who would know a cynical opportunity if it hit them in the face .
17 ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun .
18 ‘ I 'd see a lot more stars when Carmen hit me over the head with it .
19 She hit me over the head
20 He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder .
21 I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow .
22 ‘ It blew the clock off the wall and hit me on the head . ’
23 ‘ The jet-ski shot out of the water and hit me on the head .
24 His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head .
25 He took a stick and hit me on the arm .
26 Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light .
27 Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face .
28 Then Waters hit me on the shoulder and I was off across the paddock concentrating on the spot where Werewolf had suddenly vanished into the trees .
29 ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ .
30 Bowers said : ‘ The ball hit me on the head — I did n't handle it .
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