Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] hit him [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Council members mostly agreed they are a hazard , and Peter pointed out that if the car that hit him on a roundabout had been fitted with them , he would n't be here now .
2 I struck out feebly in self-defence and hit him across the chest , which increased his rage .
3 Reatus also allegedly jabbed Mr Mounsa in the neck and hit him with a dog chain .
4 I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head .
5 I had to catch up the axe and hit him with the blunt end , knock him out .
6 Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot
7 But when he did , a single shot fired from the van shattered the driver 's window and hit him in the back , killing him .
8 He had waylaid Mr Dwerringhouse and hit him on the head to stun him , but in falling to the ground , the older man had hit his head on a large stone and sustained a fatal blow .
9 An immediate option for Tottenham was to have stripped the big centre-half of the captaincy at Elland Road and hit him with a hefty fine .
10 Another said that Russell had pulled a brick from out of the passage wall and hit him with it .
11 It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head .
12 One day last October , as a Conservative politician , Alberto Dahik , rose to speak in Congress , a rival congressman launched a heavy glass ashtray across the chamber and hit him on the head .
13 The man , who was Bill Sikes , seized Oliver with one strong hand and hit him on the head with the other .
14 Again , if a dog-owner deliberately sets his dog on a peaceable citizen he is guilty of assault and battery in the ordinary way just as if he had flung a stone or hit him with a cudgel .
15 Paul grabbed the bat which Christie was carrying hidden up his sleeve , ran behind Mr Lavender and hit him with a single blow on the back of his unprotected head , said the prosecution .
16 She picked up a heavy leather glove and hit him in the face with it .
17 When Richard came a couple of steps nearer — it would never have occurred to him to go back until the matter was satisfactorily settled — Harry , looking faintly surprised , as though he could n't believe that anything could be quite so simple , raised the adjustable spanner and hit him on the left side of the head , just below the ear .
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