Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] on the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charlie laughed , and gently cuffed him on the head . |
| 2 | ‘ It blew the clock off the wall and hit me on the head . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ The jet-ski shot out of the water and hit me on the head . |
| 4 | His first day in 1924 watching his county , Sussex , convinced him that there is no greater moment than a big hit : ‘ As I walked into the ground a ball came bouncing off the Town Hall roof and nearly hit me on the head . |
| 5 | Bowers said : ‘ The ball hit me on the head — I did n't handle it . |
| 6 | I know , you hit me on the head . |
| 7 | The boom is the pole running across the bottom of the sail , designed to swing across the boat and hit you on the head when you try to turn . |
| 8 | Do n't sink into your shoulders as if one of the chandeliers is about to descend and hit you on the head . |
| 9 | One hot day , Jane was gardening on the other side of the hedge and one of the bees stung her on the head . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He reached the bottom first and the teapot , a close second , hit him on the head and smashed , spilling luke-warm tea down his navy-blue shirt . |
| 12 | Luckily , it hit him on the head . |
| 13 | During their ‘ strange relationship ’ , Bryan had shot his friend in the chest with a crossbow , hit him on the head with a medieval mace and slashed at him with a sword , the judge heard . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I picked up a marrowbone and hit him on the head . |
| 16 | One day a big bit of plaster fell off and hit him on the head . |
| 17 | Mr. Gilbert hit him on the head several times with the bottle and they were both kicked . |
| 18 | The man , who was Bill Sikes , seized Oliver with one strong hand and hit him on the head with the other . |
| 19 | Smith has been dismissed as ‘ presence of mind Smith ’ from his alleged remark on returning without his companion from a disastrous outing on the river : ‘ If I had not with great presence of mind hit him on the head with a boathook both would have been drowned , ’ but the story comes from Reminiscences of Oxford ( 1st edn. 1900 ) by William Tuckwell , who in his second edition ( 1907 ) consigned it to oblivion ; moreover , there was no charge of murder . |
| 20 | Does Mike have some er Georgian Hotel , look at that Christmas jokes , Daddy , Eddie 's broken my new dog how did he do that I hit him on the head with it Why is Father Christmas unemployed ? |
| 21 | James Spencer QC , prosecuting , alleged Mr Nichol approached Mrs Chandler in a field but when she ignored him he pulled her down the bank , sexually assaulted her and hit her on the head with a rock or rocks . |
| 22 | Saskia had thrown something at the third and hit it on the head . |
| 23 | Laura passed Rex the gun and Rex bopped him on the head with it . |
| 24 | They struck you on the head and left you locked inside . |
| 25 | As she was kneeling to get some tools out of a cupboard he struck her on the head with a hammer , apparently on the impulse of the moment , and then stole a wallet which he found in the house . |
| 26 | The only mishap was that in forcing himself through the gap , he nudged the twig and the falling window struck him on the head . |
| 27 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 28 | Albuin , little knowing he was the king 's son , unsheathed his sword and struck him on the head … |
| 29 | PC Brown struck him on the head with his truncheon in a bid to restrain him . |
| 30 | He punched her on the head and made her do pull-ups against a door frame . |