Example sentences of "strike her [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the point where in her first aria the prima donna expected from him an angry gesture , he exaggerated his anger so much that he looked as if he was about to box her ears and strike her on the nose with his fist . |
| 2 | John Ryan MP claimed to have seen a policeman remove a woman 's glasses and then strike her on the head ; she had appeared , to him , to be over sixty years of age and a bystander . |
| 3 | As she passed , she said , a policeman had struck her in the face with a baton , ‘ and I had n't opened my mouth to him ’ . |
| 4 | It did n't strike her as the slightest bit funny . |
| 5 | He might radiate power and control but he did n't strike her as the kind of man who would number nursing skills among his repertoire . |
| 6 | She felt as astonished as if the older woman had got out of her chair suddenly , and struck her across the face . |
| 7 | The kitchen and the one spare bedroom were constantly , noisily occupied , the doorbell rang at all hours , and once , answering it , a man she had never seen struck her on the side of the head with an empty bottle and told her to leave his wife alone . |
| 8 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 9 | She began again to caress him ; rose to sit kittenishly in his lap , but she was as clumsy at this babying as she was grand at being leopardine , and he found it possible this time to check his lust ; she bent to blow on his neck and ear , as he liked her to do , but he twisted sharply to avert his head , and struck her on the upper arm to beat her off , and then without another word , his face blazing with the effort of his denial , he turned and left her . |
| 10 | Both men looked at her , and the expression on Dr Neil 's face struck her to the heart . |
| 11 | ‘ He struck her in the face and told her to move over . |
| 12 | Raper shouted a string of obscenities at the woman , then threw an ashtray at her , striking her on the side of her head and causing bad bruising . |
| 13 | ‘ What do you think you 're doing ? ’ he barked at her striking her across the face . |
| 14 | She thought fleetingly of the weapon he might have picked up to strike her over the head as she sat at his mercy . |
| 15 | Juliet had an awful suspicion that she was about to strike her with the plastic colander , and she stepped back . |