Example sentences of "and hit a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the half-hour he got on the end of a short pass from Vialli on the edge of the penalty area and hit a fine shot that brought an equally fine save from Pumpido . |
| 2 | It allows novice skiers to travel too fast and they then get out of control and hit a tree . |
| 3 | Someone threw a beer bottle at me , and hit a guy who was behind me about to pour a pint over my head . |
| 4 | He could also ride a horse , with or without a saddle , and hit a target ten times out of ten with arrows from his bow , but neither of these things seemed to count . |
| 5 | Instead he went flat out for the green and hit a magificent draw , or even a hook , on to and over the green . |
| 6 | As early as the 17th minute , Johnson sold McCarthy an extravagant dummy and hit a 20-yard shot that just cleared Digweed 's crossbar . |
| 7 | standing terrified by the door , I saw an officer lean forward on his horse and hit a neighbour with his truncheon above the eyes , heard the blow like the thump of wood on a swede turnip . |
| 8 | They said that , in the narrow passageway , a corridor whose opposite walls I can touch comfortably with two hands , I had picked up an aluminium chair , ripped it in half , swung it around and hit a policeman with it so hard that he had to shield his head . |
| 9 | Two shots hit a cross beam in the driver 's door and one skewered the roof and hit a headrest , although a steel plate in the seat saved any injury . |
| 10 | But the club was still under threat and hit a low point last year when it failed to field a team for the 1991 season . |
| 11 | After the court heart she clipped a kerb at 60mph and hit a tree , killing boyfriend Trevor Harvey , 32 , and Suzanne instantly , Rosemary appealed to the judge for leniency . |
| 12 | And seconds later , Oxford keeper Paul Reece took the ball 30 yards outside his area and hit a long clearance to Joey Beauchamp , whose shot was blocked by Alan Knight before Chris Allen headed in the equaliser . |
| 13 | October 17 : CASA 1.131E Jungmann G-BACT force-landed in field north west of Shoreham , Sussex , and hit a bank causing substantial damage to wing , undercarriage , engine and propeller . |
| 14 | But as he took his three lifelong friends for a drive , the car veered over a dual carriageway and hit a bus head-on . |
| 15 | The move comes after one of the spring-loaded metal clips flew out and hit a child 's face . |
| 16 | Soldiers initially alleged that they fired at the car after it had driven through an army checkpoint and hit a soldier . |
| 17 | As it approached , a guard stepped forward and hit a switch . |
| 18 | Microsoft 's director of Windows NT and networking products Dwayne Walker indicated desktop NT could appear at $500 list and hit a street price of $300 , given reseller discounts of 40% to 50% , once the introductory price expires . |
| 19 | The following year , he made his last appearance for Hampstead and hit a century against Old Westminsters . |
| 20 | Against Kent at The Oval in 1922 , he scored 137 in 90 minutes and hit a fast-medium widish half-volley from G.J. Bryan over extra cover for six . |
| 21 | Play at Beaconsfield CC 's six-a-side festival was abandoned after the club 's president Tom Orford , 86 , lost control of his car , which then ran across the pitch and hit a bench near the pavilion , injuring four spectators . |
| 22 | In one scene John bawled so loudly into her deaf aid that her head jerked back and hit a clock . |
| 23 | Andy overtook a container lorry , the kind of thing that should never have been on that road , and hit a Volvo estate car coming in the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Haynes , the senior partner but content to play second fiddle this time , faced 71 balls and hit a six and seven fours , and extended his record one-day aggregate past 7500 runs . |
| 25 | ‘ A car went out of control and hit a plate-glass window . |
| 26 | Bernard reversed straight out of the new garage into the road and hit a passing van . |
| 27 | A Rumpler , straining to make height , saw him coming , turned panicking away and hit a tree . |
| 28 | But every so often I go a bit crazy and hit a wall or go out and start drinking , but that sort of thing does n't worry me very much . |
| 29 | On the third lesson the defendant drove negligently and hit a lamp post . |
| 30 | I used to be a hunt supporter , I used to be a hunt follower I gave up because I object to an attitude of a society of people that life is disposable having seen wounded fox hounds and that is the proper term having seen wounded fox hounds despatched with a revolver because they 've got a broken leg having charged full pelt across a public road and hit a motor car coming the other way and fortunately not injured the occupants of the motor car having seen the damage that a pack of hounds in full cry can do to land that they are not entitled to be upon because fox hounds ca n't read . |