11.   Even though she had tried to prepare herself for the possibility, the sense of shock hit her like a physical pain.

12.   But -- the thought hit her like a wave -- it was already too late.

13.   His words hit her like a battering-ram, making her knees buckle beneath her.

14.   She felt like crying as dejection hit her like a ton of bricks.

15.   Then, suddenly, just as Joanna was nodding a dubious assent, the full force of what she had been told hit her like a thunderbolt.

16.   I used to end up hitting them like a golf ball!

17.   She opened it, the noise hit her like something solid, worse than breaks she thought grimly.

18.   And start hitting like an absolute mad man.

19.   As constituted, they were already good enough to beat the Padres, had they not hit like Madres.

20.   Belinda Hart of Massage from the Hart store said the fire was so immense that heat from the fire hit her like an oven blast.