Example sentences of "[noun] hit him in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ( 6 ) An empathetic question asks the pupil to become involved personally with the evidence , e.g. " If you had been the soldier standing behind Harold , say what you might have thought , felt and done at the moment the arrow hit him in the eye . "
2 When one of the police asked him to quieten the party down a bit , Willis hit him in the mouth and screamed , ‘ Get the fuck off my property ! ’
3 Nieto was walking alongside the touchline when a ball kicked from within the field hit him in the face , breaking his glasses .
4 Some bullets hit him in the air and more bullets hit him as he lay on the ground .
5 He felt a second shot hit him in the back and knock him off his feet .
6 As the strong-armed man turned towards him Blake hit him in the stomach .
7 He knocked down McGuire for a count of nine and on the break from the subsequent clinch McGuire hit him in the adam 's apple .
8 He had shot one grouse and was aiming at a second when the first bird hit him in the face at 60mph , flinging him unconscious into the heather .
9 Warm slobber hit him in the face .
10 But it came too late for him to do anything about it , for when he straightened up and turned towards the bank the bullet hit him in the chest and his body seemed to disintegrate and fly in all directions , and he knew that death was on him and that it was something that divided you into a million parts and each fragment screamed as it flung itself into eternity .
11 The first bullet hit him in the back , severing his spine .
12 From point-blank range the first bullet hit him in the stomach , doubling him up as it punched a hole just to the left of his navel , ploughing through intestines before lodging close to his spine .
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