Example sentences of "his head with a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big golden beast shook his head with a slight bit of confusion . |
| 2 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 3 | Abbot Ælfric stressed Christ 's humility , describing in his homily The Exaltation of the Holy Cross how an angel reminded the seventh-century Byzantine emperor Heraclius that he " would not encircle his head with a golden crown , but with one of thorns " , and that before the crucifixion " he was not clothed in purple , nor adorned with a royal crown , nor rode he … upon a horse but upon the back of an ass " . |
| 4 | Dulé was to slip into the sea , then , binding the container of burning pitch to his head with a deep cushioning of reeds in between to prevent him getting burned , he would swim to the ship , gouge a hole in the hull with his knife and , taking dry tinder from a companion swimming alongside him , light spills from the fire and pass them through the walls of the ship , then slip back under the cover of the mangroves and lie in wait for the panic . |
| 5 | Dalziel shook his head with a sad smile . |
| 6 | The dog scratched his head with a hind foot and looked all along the riverbank . |
| 7 | She plastered his head with a yellow liquid that stung like salt when it ran into his eyes . |
| 8 | Cameron looked steadily at him for a while until Stewart turned his head with a little toss and swallowed down his wine . |