Example sentences of "hit by a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Obviously hit by a vehicle and just left to die . ’ |
| 2 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 3 | A TWO-YEAR-OLD boy was fighting for life last night after being hit by a bike at a moto-cross meeting . |
| 4 | No walker has yet been hit by a bike on Snowdon but last year a cyclist was killed in Gwynedd by a motorist fiddling with his radio . |
| 5 | Harrington 's aircraft was hit by a cannon shell in the forward fuel tank , another hitting his parachute pack ; he was unhurt , but his Hurricane was a total write-off . |
| 6 | NEC Corp has been hit by a downgrading from Moody 's Investors Service Inc , which cut the long-term debt rating to A3 from A2 . |
| 7 | Once in Hawaii he was hit by a wave and lost all his equipment . |
| 8 | She was hit by a wave of familiarity ; the sudden realisation that this was the man with whom she had shared so much , if only for a very short time . |
| 9 | Lindsey gasped as she stepped on to the deck and was hit by a wave of cold air . |
| 10 | Each enemy hit by a net can not attack back that turn assuming he has not already done so . |
| 11 | In addition , any enemy hit by a net is a prime target for a club attack as explained below . |
| 12 | If your home got hit by a tornado it would n't recover quickly either . |
| 13 | The position is , of course , quite different if the witness knows the person concerned well enough to say : ‘ I was hit by a man I know well and whose name is Jack Spratt . ’ |
| 14 | A PRANKSTER who dangled his head out of a car window was killed when he was hit by a lorry coming the other way . |
| 15 | Angela Chew , 43 , from Leighton Buzzard , Bedfordshire , and her sons Rowan , eight , and Simon , one , were trapped in the burning Citroen after being hit by a lorry whose brakes had failed on the M4 interchange in Pontardulais , South Wales . |
| 16 | Paul regularly runs out of the nursery to play ball in a busy street ; he has also run home by himself and was nearly hit by a lorry . |
| 17 | David Bell was yesterday still very poorly after being hit by a pick-up outside his mother 's farm at East Rounton , Northallerton , on Thursday . |
| 18 | Kingfisher has estimated that its own pre-tax profits fell from £228 million to £210 million in the year to the end of January , hit by a £26 million property write-down . |
| 19 | It 's been hit by a dose of fly spray ! |
| 20 | It was also hit by a fall in European sales of fertilisers and competition from imports . |
| 21 | The authority says the region was hit by a belt of rain of tropical proportions and the river 's at its highest in 10 years . |
| 22 | Almost by return , he was hit by a missile which looked like a rotting cabbage . |
| 23 | A three-man committee ruled the 9-1 result of the first-round replay was ‘ significantly influenced ’ when Kinstonian keeper Adrian Blake was hit by a missile . |
| 24 | Burton Albion were granted a replay against Leicester in 1984–85 after their goalkeeper was hit by a missile . |
| 25 | It could n't have been hit by a missile because we know there are no missile-carrying planes around — even if there were , a heat-seeking missile , the only type that could nail it at that altitude , would have gone for the engines , not the nose cone . |
| 26 | Colour Sergeant Brian Johnston , 33 , a native of Carrickfergus , Co Antrim , died along with five colleagues when their landing craft was hit by a missile in Choiseul Sound on June 6 — on the eve of his 34th birthday . |
| 27 | The UK-flag bulk carrier Charming was hit by a missile while carrying a cargo of alumina in an Iranian-organized convoy going up to Bandar Khomeini . |
| 28 | Has Anderson ever been hit by a golf ball ? |
| 29 | For the past year charity shops have seen their takings hit by a ban on the sale of second hand toys . |
| 30 | THE owner of a trawler which sank with the loss of all six crew claimed yesterday it was hit by a submarine . |