Example sentences of "off [pron] head [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then she lopped off her head and finally decided to douse her mortal remains with petrol and set fire to herself . ’ |
| 2 | But I was furious , and at the end of the afternoon , tore it off her head and threw it in the fire . |
| 3 | I remember picturing the wet grease-proof paper it would be wrapped in and how my mother would cut off its head and scrape out its insides . |
| 4 | " No , " Quiss said , shaking the attendant roughly so that the crownless brim round its cowl fell off , " I , " he shook it again , sending the thing 's hood flying off its head and revealing the smooth continuation of the mask over the creature 's skull , so that its little arms waggled trying to put the hood back on again as Quiss finished , " did n't . " |
| 5 | And he went out and defied the Count and slew him , and smote off his head and carried it home to his father . |
| 6 | When the old publican went off his head and shut himself up in the snug with an ex-War Department Verey pistol , and shot distress signals through the serving hatch at anyone who came near ? ’ |
| 7 | Or hack off his head and boil it |