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Example sentences of "hair [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Her red lipstick was smudged and she had n't bothered to pin up her hair properly at the sides .
2	Pipe hair on to the ballerina and allow to dry .
3	Like all the Wallowa Nez Perce , he wore his hair long with a distinctive swept up fringe .
4	And when we seen them , we just bust ourselves laughing , cos they looked so funny with Marie 's hair all over the place and me with this real surprised look on my face .
5	Chadwick arrives , breezing into the bar , looking well and happy , with a big grin and his hair all over the place .
6	My own vanity , such as it was , could not accept any of this ; in that dressing-gown , and with my hair all over the place , I was hardly something that a chance met man would want to lay claim to .
7	I found her by the side of the house with her dog , looking like a complete tramp , with a patched-up old coat and hair all over the place .
8	The little one was podgy with puppy fat and a front tooth missing and a ravishing smile and hair all over the place .
9	Hair all over the place ? ’
10	He was the sort of man who was always punctual and here she was with her hair all over the place and a shiny nose .
11	‘ I saw the evidence with my own eyes , Melanie wearing only a dressing-gown , her hair all over the place .
12	Where the inner band had stuck to the hair all around the sides and back , she had to chop the hair off right to the skin so that he finished up with a bald white ring round his head , like some sort of a monk .
13	Among the many booksellers and publishers whom I spotted letting their hair down on the dance floor was independent publisher Christopher Hurst .
14	As you start brushing , part the hair down to the skin and keep the unbrushed hair separate from the brushed coat .
15	She had long , black hair down to the waist of her tight satin bodice .
16	A pleasant surprise so early in the day : Lucy had style , from well-cut red-gold hair down through the subtly tailored suit , to the jaunty tap-tap of grey suede sub-stilettoes .
17	Her hair down from the secret of her ears ,
18	Britons were at last letting their hair down after the grey years following the Second World War .
19	Pubic hairs are further apart than hairs elsewhere on the body and , in particular , than the hairs of the head .
20	It 's just the things you poke your hairs up on a sharp stick
21	I have absolutely no conscience about taking this stuff from Ellis , who incidentally has shunted Plutarch off to a luxurious cattery and is still wrestling at getting the hairs out of the carpets .
22	He put out a hand and drew Susan 's hair away from the side of her face .
23	Delia Sutherland 's finger pressed a black-and-white photograph of a woman lifting her hair away from the grabbing hand of the baby in her arms .
24	It 'll probably take all your hair off in the end !
25	She cut the hair close to the nape of the neck , leaving it long on top to keep it soft and then graduated at the back to create a heavy wedge .
26	Her father came into the room , looking like an unreformed convict in his striped pyjamas , his grey hair upright at the back of his head , a smouldering cigarette held in one cupped hand and his mug of tea in the other .
27	Alexandra sat in front of her mirror in her new cream silk gown while Lyddy folded her hair carefully over the pads .
28	Charles cut the hair up to the nape of the neck at the back , then graduated it into a flattering , face-framing bob .
29	She was wearing the huge red skirt she had made out of some curtains someone had sent to the jumble , and a black polo-necked jersey , and she had tied her hair up with the Indian scarf Luke had given her for Christmas .
30	Selina donned an apron and put her hair up under a baseball cap and prickled with female make-do and knowhow , while Mandy and Debby took it in turns to amuse me downstairs .