Example sentences of "he hit [pers pn] in the " in BNC.

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1 The shooting gallery was open to members of the public , and was the scene of a spectacular feat of arms by Horace Hunter , who hit the target ‘ in the second buttonhole of the waistcoat , five times out of every six , and when he did n't hit there , he hit him in the head ’ .
2 Last night at our gig in Cardiff there was a bouncer at the front and he caught a youngster and he hit him in the throat , and he could have killed him .
3 Er this fellow come up fair blue devil go drinking , er he had n't a , he had n't , she had n't his tea ready and he lifted the kettle and he hit her in the mouth with it and oh boy oh boy she 'd a mouth like dixie lid .
4 He also injured Thomas 's common-law wife when he hit her in the legs with the stick , Teesside magistrates heard .
5 He hit me in the face with the gun ; an inefficient , glancing blow with more chaotic anger than directed malice behind it ; I fell down , correspondingly , more because I felt I ought to than because I was actually knocked out .
6 His flight engineer WO W. G. Higgs wrote : On the night of 10/20 September 1942 we were attacked by a Bf110 from below ; he hit us in the port mainplane and set fire to numbers five and six fuel tanks , " the ailerons were jammed and the fuselage was also on fire .
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