He had taken the hit on behalf of his team.
And if a friend can't take an Epipen hit on behalf of her best friend with a shellfish allergy then swoop her up in her arms and carry her to hospital, then what is friendship, after all?
End, pretty much, with an eager and unthwarted pilot, zooming down the narrow canyon of a spaceship, with his wingmen taking hits on his behalf and a tiny yet crucial target in his sights?
The Conservative mayor swiftly hit back on behalf of Londoners: "Nick Griffin is right to say London is not his city.
And Mr. Bush, for all his charm, eventually became something of a hit man on behalf of his father.
Which was nice of him, even if referee Antonio Rubinos Pérez didn't see it that way: he raced over self-importantly and took the chance to hit back on behalf of his colleagues for eleven years of ear-bashings, sending Karpin off for "applauding repeatedly, in a clearly sarcastic manner".
He watches videos of every Asian movie ever made, picks the biggest hits, and then, on behalf of their Asian distributors, sells the "remake rights" of those films to studios here, so that they can be turned into big-budget American spectacles.
There were people of deep faith, and clearly of a mystical bent, but also a lot of talk about faith that hits the streets on behalf of those in need and faith that calls us to make personal AND political changes in response to the greatest challenge of our age: climate change.
But these countries are sometimes major trading partners of allies, and asking those allies to take a hit on our behalf just leads to other economic problems.
Mandelson and Shaun Woodward, the Northern Ireland Secretary, hit the phones on behalf of Brown and pleaded with ministers not to follow suit.
