Example sentences of "hit [pron] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Used to hit them on the arm , never on the head . |
| 2 | They were prepared to hit me on the head , were n't they ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ Quite a lot of people , ’ said Maisie acidly , ‘ are prepared to hit you on the head . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ We soaked up a great deal of pressure , but then hit them on the break , ’ he said . |
| 5 | ‘ It blew the clock off the wall and hit me on the head . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The jet-ski shot out of the water and hit me on the head . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Bowers said : ‘ The ball hit me on the head — I did n't handle it . |
| 9 | I know , you hit me on the head . |
| 10 | He looked at me and hit me on the shoulder . |
| 11 | Then Waters hit me on the shoulder and I was off across the paddock concentrating on the spot where Werewolf had suddenly vanished into the trees . |
| 12 | Something hit me on the back of the head , here , and I went out like a light . |
| 13 | I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow . |
| 14 | He took a stick and hit me on the arm . |
| 15 | Once , when we were going up one of the main avenues in the city a lump of thawing snow fell from a tree under which we were passing and hit me on the face . |
| 16 | ‘ I shut my eyes , the ball hit me on the nose , and when I opened them it was in the back of the net ’ . |
| 17 | ‘ Someone could have hit him and then he fell over and hit himself on the fender or the door-jamb or the bedpost — ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Do n't sink into your shoulders as if one of the chandeliers is about to descend and hit you on the head . |
| 20 | ‘ They are a very good side , and remind me of our old Liverpool team in that they could sit back and hit you on the break , ’ he said . |
| 21 | daddy hit you on the nut did he ? |
| 22 | April 1 , Bath : Mr Major was struck by a single egg , which hit him on the shoulder and neck . |
| 23 | When Gorelli turned his face up to the balcony , Jed hit him on the shoulder with the gun . |
| 24 | In Bath last Wednesday , one hit him on the back of the neck and a woman was arrested . |
| 25 | The beadle hit him on the back , and so naturally Oliver cried even more . |
| 26 | But , before he was able to put a name to it , something hit him on the back of the head , and for a long time he knew no more . |
| 27 | I do n't know how this happened , but er erm a piece of wood or something fell and hit him on the back of the neck and woke him up and he woke up from the vivid dream of being at the time of the French Revolution , of being lead up the guillotine and having his head chopped off . |
| 28 | He opened them , and his eyelids moved back and hit him on the brain . |
| 29 | Philip Tufnell is welcomed back to Test cricket after his appendix operation by a Waqar Younis yorker that hit him on the foot |
| 30 | Elliott hit him on the rise , misjudging the blow slightly . |