Example sentences of "had been hit by " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the road where the bagpipes had been hit by a piece of shrapnel . |
| 2 | A cottage across from the farm had been hit by a shell and was burning fiercely . |
| 3 | He had been hit by a new wave of depression . |
| 4 | On the one occasion when they had met in those six weeks , it had been to visit flood victims in Wales , in the town of Carmarthen , which had been hit by the freak October hurricane . |
| 5 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |
| 6 | There is no suggestion that , though all three aircraft had been hit by flak over Caen on the outward journey , Leslie 's had come down then . |
| 7 | From that moment I knew I had been hit by something . ’ |
| 8 | Only Eve , who had been hit by the moving car , was seriously hurt and even Eve would be out of hospital in a week . |
| 9 | To back the claim up one soldier was assaulted to make it appear he had been hit by the car . |
| 10 | A doctor who examined the soldier who claimed he had been hit by the car said he found a bruise measuring 10cms on his left thigh . |
| 11 | It had been hit by a passing lorry , and they joked that it would never fly again . |
| 12 | There were rumours the small boat had been hit by a much larger vessel . |
| 13 | Outside , the storm continued furiously all night , and in the morning we discovered that the great tree at the bottom of the garden , which had stood for hundreds of years , had been hit by lightning and torn in half . |
| 14 | For many years before 1914 private house owners had been hit by an increasing share of rate levy , at a time when the costs of urban government were rising ; from the 1880s landlords found themselves in an increasingly difficult situation as demand fell and the burden of local taxation mounted . |
| 15 | It was the second time the teacher-turned-comic had been hit by car vandals . |
| 16 | Aindow is further charged with conspiracy with others to pervert the course of justice by allowing himself to be struck in the leg in order to support a false story that he had been hit by the joyriders ' car . |
| 17 | It has been claimed that Aindow allowed himself to be struck on the leg to support the false story that he had been hit by the car . |
| 18 | Among the worst incidents were serious clashes between rival fans at a World Cup qualifying match between the Netherlands and West Germany in Rotterdam in April 1989 and the abandonment of an international club fixture in September in Amsterdam after the goalkeeper from the visiting team had been hit by an iron rod . |
| 19 | These latest jobs cuts come just after another Gloucestershire firm , smiths industries , announced it too had been hit by the slump in the aircraft industry , shedding three hundred jobs . |
| 20 | A post mortem showed he had been hit by five bullets and had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets . |
| 21 | Consumer confidence and house prices had been hit by the events of Black Wednesday , he added . |
| 22 | In the gunbattles yesterday , Col Peck said a number of relief agency offices and residences in central Mogadishu had been hit by bullets and what he called ‘ ballistic fallout ’ . |
| 23 | IMI 's chairman , Sir Eric Pountain , said the fluid-power business , whose profits fell from £22.2 million to £16.9 million , had been hit by the engineering downturn . |
| 24 | Over the previous few years capitalists had been hit by the European wage explosions and a general worsening of industrial relations . |
| 25 | Abroad the Americans were bombing in Vietnam , Hanoi had been hit by American fighters . |
| 26 | Attendances had been hit by the rundown of main site activities last year but the centre is now rehoused in an area full of potential clients . |