Example sentences of "hit [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hit through the ball , disguised the passing shots well and had great depth on his shots . |
| 2 | A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road . |
| 3 | They are examples of people thinking on their feet , trying to rationalize their responses to texts which ‘ hit below the belt ’ . |
| 4 | That was a great cross by , did absolut did absolutely magnificent , he controlled the ball he turned left footed shot in and hit against the post , very very unfortunate fo for Blackburn but then I suppose Shrewsbury deserve a little bit of luck . |
| 5 | ‘ That shot I hit into the water at the 11th was my mistake and mine alone . ’ |
| 6 | You could see Roberto start as he hit into the ball . |
| 7 | In thinking about this he ‘ luckily ’ ( as he says ) hit upon the idea that matter in motion is the key . |
| 8 | John provided the Plaza management with two different lines of Girls with no particular style , then he hit upon the idea of creating a line of tall Girls with long legs . |
| 9 | If you are having regression therapy to help you deal with a problem whose roots are buried in a previous existence , you may well need two or three sessions of actual regression before you hit upon the significant lifetime . |
| 10 | Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner . |
| 11 | However , then I hit upon the idea of finishing the card by punching out four rows of holes and cutting between them , so that two rows remained on the blank roll ready to make the start of the next card when required . |
| 12 | Curiously , though , in your first paragraph you hit upon the solution to the problem of too many paintings and too little space . |
| 13 | In 1858 Wallace ( who had also read Malthus ) hit upon the idea of natural selection and wrote up an account , which he sent to Darwin , who was widely known to be interested in the species question . |
| 14 | So he and Elaine Lee-Teng hit upon the device of offering the chick a small coloured bead to peck . |
| 15 | He then hit upon the idea of holding an extended putter just under , and sometimes just touching , his chin . |
| 16 | But on his way to one of the farmers that Jack had forlornly recommended , John hit upon the real answer : a large timber plantation of about twenty acres — ash , sycamore , larch , balsam poplar , noble fir , silver pine — all in just the right condition for his purpose . |
| 17 | He was having problems until he hit upon the idea of chickenwire . |
| 18 | There once was a bear , an ugly and deformed creature , who hit from the world and lived all alone in a wood . |
| 19 | Anyone hit in the upper part of the body has little chance of surviving . |
| 20 | Because of the danger of that ball jumping , you hit over the top like that , it 'll jump . |
| 21 | Mr Browning said it was probably a bird he hit on the way , and later cleaned the car . |
| 22 | To do something concrete in this direction , Laing hit on the idea of forming what he wanted to call the One Per Cent Club , all the corporate members of which would pledge one per cent of their UK pre-tax income to the community . |
| 23 | But initially she could n't think how to raise the money for it — until she hit on the idea of Greener Gifts . |
| 24 | Back in the mid-1970s , an American computer scientist called John Holland hit on the idea of using the theory of evolution to solve notoriously difficult problems in science . |
| 25 | Among other things I hit on the idea of writing down a very simple minuet , in order to see whether she could not compose a variation on it . |
| 26 | Chub do have their days when the old grey matter works overtime and you will have to put on your own thinking cap and go through a whole array of angling techniques , usual and offbeat ones , before you hit on the right one to catch him . |
| 27 | That 's when I hit on the answer . |
| 28 | The team that hit on the idea became cocky enough to predict that a computer would beat the world chess champion by 1967 ; but the concept has a logical flaw . |
| 29 | Then a nineteenth-century professor of medicine in Germany hit on the idea as a way of stopping impoverished bachelors from fathering illegitimate children . |
| 30 | Alarmed by falling recruitment , and by the growing isolationism apparent in Government circles , Cecil hit on the idea of the peace Ballot-a nationwide house-to-house canvass of opinion . |