Example sentences of "[noun pl] on his head " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wild bear cub , he looked to her , before the full long shag has grown , with scanty red hairs on his head , pinkish creases in his flesh , at thigh and neck and elbow , the larval roundness , the white smell of milk — she pushed him away and pursed her lips to spit . |
| 2 | Broad limes on his head , a beard of holly , tufts of pear , shoulders of whitebeam , a chest of browning oak and elm , belly of ivy and brilliant yellow autumn sycamore . |
| 3 | I do n't think he 'd have noticed if someone had dropped a set of kitchen units on his head from 30,000 feet . |
| 4 | Detractors of Ward 's friend and former boss , Graham Taylor , deface the England manager through the primitive superimposition of turnips on his head — but the only object likely to adorn Ward 's cranium in York at present is a crown . |
| 5 | Once , he piled 66 milk crates on his head — 42 more than the previous record . |
| 6 | He 'd probably put his shoes on his head . ’ |
| 7 | The knot under his chin was still firmly fastened and he had extensive burns on his head and face . |
| 8 | He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat 's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir , having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head , tries to improve his personality ; with fatal results . |
| 9 | ‘ What are those things on his head ? ’ |
| 10 | Bonnie Prince Charlie had a price of thirty thousand pounds on his head when he was being ferried hither and yon across many isles and sea-lochs of the Hebrides , and yet , and yet — the people of the west , such as Flora Macdonald and Malcolm Macleod of Raasay , risked their lives for a man they must have known in their hearts was a lost cause . |
| 11 | Are you aware that the array of funerals , commonly made by undertakers , is strictly the heraldic array of a baronial funeral , the two men who stand at the doors being supposed to be the two porters of the castle , with their staves , in black ; the man who heads the procession , wearing a scarf , being a representative of a herald-at-arms ; the man who carries a plume of feathers on his head being an esquire , who bears the shield and casque , with its plume of feathers ; the pall-bearers , with batons , being representatives of knights-companions-at-arms ; the men walking with wands being supposed to represent gentlemen-ushers , with their wands : are you aware that this is said to be the origin and type of the common array usually provided by those who undertake to perform funerals ? |
| 12 | He wore a T-shirt regardless of the season of the year and kept his hair cropped short enough to reveal the half-dozen tiny scars on his head where the stubble would n't grow . |
| 13 | You will look at your own child , whose current display of skills is limited to marching around the house with a pair of knickers on his head claiming to be Postman Pat , and you will get restless . |
| 14 | They put ropes on his head and tied him up . |
| 15 | ‘ Yeah , he had hair like pop stars , those little bobbles on his head . ’ |
| 16 | However , within just a few hours , as the region continued to collapse , the difference in the gravitational forces on his head and his feet would become so strong that again it would tear him apart . |
| 17 | The same thing always happened to him at school if he was brought out to the front of the hall for talking in assembly , or if he had to stand in the aisle with his hands on his head for not paying attention in class . |
| 18 | The commander , although partially blinded by blood from cuts on his head , made his way to the main cabin door , which he opened , and all occupants were evacuated . |
| 19 | There were some quite nasty-looking cuts on his head , and the sergeant was a bit apprehensive about turning him over . |
| 20 | A week later he was in the chair at a meeting of the Humanist Society when he suddenly had a vision of Bill Brice looking down at him from the moulding in the corner of the ceiling with a crown of thorns on his head , and look of sweet forgiveness on his face ; whereupon he stood up and made a long , confused speech about the hunger for God that gnawed inside each of us , however stiff-necked and jeering we might be ; which caused great embarrassment to all those present , and even greater embarrassment later to progressive theologians on the staff , who felt that such old-fashioned emotive conversions could only undo all their good work . |
| 21 | Visions of her mother 's angry face when she told her what she knew changed into dreams of Nigel , back in hospital with bandages on his head , and David Kent with a Porsche , laughing and saying it was his now . |
| 22 | This explains our erratic performance and the peculiar antics of Steve Gillery who insisted on wearing his shorts on his head , and ‘ Mig ’ Romerez who was booked for kissing a linesman . |
| 23 | An earlier court hearing was told that the woman awoke one morning to be confronted by McKenzie , who was naked apart from a pair of underpants on his head . |