Example sentences of "[prep] be [vb pp] on the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | After being hit on the head with a bottle , Waller lashed out at Terry Malone , 24 , with a chisel . |
| 2 | New Zealand saved the follow-on after Nancy Williams defied doctor 's orders and resumed batting after being hit on the head by a fielder 's return . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , later in the same year , some months after being hit on the head by a piece of falling masonry , Geoffrey of Vigeois died , and without his chronicle to guide us we are hopelessly ignorant of events in this part of the world . |
| 4 | Mr Kumar made comments about referee Roger Wiseman , who asked not to officiate again this season after being struck on the head by a fan when trouble erupted at the end of Birmingham 's Third Division game against Stoke on Feb 29 . |
| 5 | After being smacked on the head with a baseball bat ( wielded by Steve ) for a couple of hours , I remembered how to do it . |
| 6 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 7 | ALEC Stewart made light of being struck on the head by a stone during yesterday 's one-day international defeat at Gwalior . |
| 8 | Osaka Transport Authority operates a ‘ hit-money ’ system that rewards staff who display forbearance when attacked , like the station employee who recently asked a man kicking a broken vending machine to stop , only to be hit on the head . |
| 9 | Evidently Hatton got a hundred when he was personally involved , fifty when it was someone else to be knocked on the head and left in a ditch . |
| 10 | Even a dog needs to be patted on the head , but you do n't get that here . |