Example sentences of "hit [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 We hit about a hundred miles per hour minimum within seconds and hold it .
2 He hit through the ball , disguised the passing shots well and had great depth on his shots .
3 This trap inflicts D3 S 5 hits , or 1 S 3 hit for a Dwarf or Halfling ( only hit by the lower two ) .
4 A few weeks later he scored the first of three hat-tricks he hit for the Palace when we toppled his former club , Watford , by 4–1 at Vicarage Road .
5 They are examples of people thinking on their feet , trying to rationalize their responses to texts which ‘ hit below the belt ’ .
6 Arizona was hit first and blew up when a bomb hit near No 2 turret exploding the magazines .
7 That was a great cross by , did absolut did absolutely magnificent , he controlled the ball he turned left footed shot in and hit against the post , very very unfortunate fo for Blackburn but then I suppose Shrewsbury deserve a little bit of luck .
8 David Jason , another hit with A Touch Of Frost
9 The children had been suffocated and Mrs Garvey hit with a hammer .
10 ‘ That shot I hit into the water at the 11th was my mistake and mine alone . ’
11 You could see Roberto start as he hit into the ball .
12 She hit upon a pair of corduroy breeches which would fit snugly at the waist but balloon over the hips , with highly-polished brown leather boots for a touch of chic , a maroon Italian sweater , which at 15p at a jumble sale had been a real snip , and a jaunty maroon beret .
13 Undeterred by the understandable timidity of his acquaintances , Goma hit upon a masterstroke of irony .
14 And then she hit upon a scheme .
15 In 1875 Thomas hit upon a way of removing phosphorus from iron ores in the process developed by ( Sir ) Henry Bessemer [ q.v. ] for the manufacture of steel .
16 Phillips hit upon a plausible resolution of this difficulty by isolating a directly measurable proxy variable for the pressure of demand in the economy in general and in the labour market in particular : the unemployment rate , U. Although X L is an unobservable magnitude , it is reasonable to suppose that it varies inversely with the unemployment rate .
17 When an analogous problem struck the designers of radar in the Second World War , they hit upon a solution which they called " send/receive " radar .
18 In thinking about this he ‘ luckily ’ ( as he says ) hit upon the idea that matter in motion is the key .
19 John provided the Plaza management with two different lines of Girls with no particular style , then he hit upon the idea of creating a line of tall Girls with long legs .
20 If you are having regression therapy to help you deal with a problem whose roots are buried in a previous existence , you may well need two or three sessions of actual regression before you hit upon the significant lifetime .
21 Miss Thorne suddenly hit upon the idea of casting him as the ghost of Marley , Scrooge 's ex-partner .
22 However , then I hit upon the idea of finishing the card by punching out four rows of holes and cutting between them , so that two rows remained on the blank roll ready to make the start of the next card when required .
23 Curiously , though , in your first paragraph you hit upon the solution to the problem of too many paintings and too little space .
24 In 1858 Wallace ( who had also read Malthus ) hit upon the idea of natural selection and wrote up an account , which he sent to Darwin , who was widely known to be interested in the species question .
25 So he and Elaine Lee-Teng hit upon the device of offering the chick a small coloured bead to peck .
26 He then hit upon the idea of holding an extended putter just under , and sometimes just touching , his chin .
27 But on his way to one of the farmers that Jack had forlornly recommended , John hit upon the real answer : a large timber plantation of about twenty acres — ash , sycamore , larch , balsam poplar , noble fir , silver pine — all in just the right condition for his purpose .
28 He was having problems until he hit upon the idea of chickenwire .
29 There is nothing that enjoys being on the end of a strength 10 hit from a cannon .
30 One hit from a cannon can dispose of all but the most powerful monsters .
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