Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [prep] [pos pn] head [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt the corporeal elephant on whose back my world was supported amble effortlessly along , rather that it being necessary for me to lean out from the howdah of my head and goad him . |
| 2 | I replaced the blanket over his head and stood for a few moments looking at the bodies in their neat little rows . |
| 3 | I have seized him by the hair of his head And shoved it into a bucket of water And I screwed his pistols up his arse A dam sight harder than I screwed his daughter ( Rum ti-iddle-ey etc ) . |
| 4 | Creeping little bastards in the hair of his head and his stomach , and he had gouged with his fingernails at the flesh under his clothes . |
| 5 | His ears are only just covered by his hair above , as the barber , out of respect for the empire , keeps the hair in his head and cheeks short by continual trimming . |
| 6 | She butted him in the chest with her head and he slipped in the mud and fell on his back . |
| 7 | How it kept the roof over their heads as well as helping the community . |
| 8 | The patient pulls the sweater over his head and then puts the unaffected arm into its sleeve . |
| 9 | She pulled the duvet over her head and ignored it . |
| 10 | She appeared to have been holding a makeshift icepack to the side of her head and a couple of the cubes had skidded out of reach and begun to melt , almost as if she 'd been in too much of a hurry to stretch over for them . |
| 11 | His other hand flattened against the trunk at the side of her head and he stared down at her , his eyes brilliant with the anger sparking in their depths , his mouth firm , only inches away from her own . |
| 12 | ‘ Make way for the Lord Mayor , ’ she said one day on the front steps , as she moved her bucket aside , and he , bending over her , said , ‘ Many a true word spoken in jest , Rosie , ’ to which she had reacted quickly , saying , ‘ Yes , Mr Jones ; but those who sit on horsehair chairs generally get their bums scratched , ’ bringing from him the reaction of a push on the side of her head and their laughing together . |
| 13 | Raper shouted a string of obscenities at the woman , then threw an ashtray at her , striking her on the side of her head and causing bad bruising . |
| 14 | Their eyes are on the side of their heads so they have an all-round view . |
| 15 | With legs a little bent and comfortable apart , lightly place right hand at the side of your head and lean gently to left to a count of five . |
| 16 | Clive 's fist hit the side of his head before he could blink , and in an instant he was crushed under all four boys and someone rammed the soap into his mouth . |
| 17 | MacMillan created a strange gesture for Rudolf in Mayerling ; he frequently clasps his hand against the side of his head and ear as if to ease the pain of his deteriorating brain in order to shut out the rumours surrounding his every activity . |
| 18 | Big drops hammered the side of his head and his face ached from being clenched to keep the water out of his eyes . |
| 19 | It catches the side of his head and he collapses . |
| 20 | And he says , but he got like a crack on the side of his head and his hear |
| 21 | Two or three boys stood round him as he sat on the floor nursing the side of his head where a lump was rising under his probing fingers . |
| 22 | by the side of my head and she landed up , sort of like this on the floor but sh , apparently she did n't quite get that right ! |
| 23 | I felt the side of my head where it had hit the bus shelter ; a bruise was forming and my eye felt sore . |
| 24 | All she wanted to do today , however , was get into bed , pull the covers over her head and hope the world would go away . |
| 25 | One minute a well-behaved group of us — writers , intellectuals and so forth — were contentedly watching Zelda Plum dancing with the chinchilla on her head while Ken the Australian Horse Player offered odds ( 'Six to four the rat , ’ he used to say , I do not know why , and on this particular evening the rat escaped and tripped up Robin Fox , London 's most distinguished theatrical agent , who fell on top of Wales 's friend , the actress Susan George ) and the next a squad of hooligans were pushing people around and conjuring a piece of pot from Mrs Mouse 's sewing basket . |
| 26 | He had aimed carefully between its eyes , but its movement changed the attitude of its head and his first bullet merely grooved the glossy hide of its neck . |
| 27 | He kept replaying the scene in his head when Zambia stood before him , wreathed to hir chest in tangled rats'-tails , an urchin elemental , and removed hir clothes . |
| 28 | Keith takes the pillow off his head and begins hitting back with it . |
| 29 | At night I used to put the pillow on my head and just hold it so as I could n't hear . |
| 30 | Erm perhaps I can turn the the question on its head and and I think the way the County Council 's looked at it , what would be the implications of not providing for the needs of North Yorkshire , and that 's I think the approach that we have taken in the first instance , is to try and determine what the needs of North Yorkshire are and to borrow a phrase from Professor Lock , in strategic terms to look at er try to achieve full employment in North Yorkshire . |