Example sentences of "[verb] over [art] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grim prospects do hang over the heads of black school leavers and the research of Gloria Lee and John Wrench does much to nail down the specific ways in which employment opportunities are much narrower for the black kid seeking apprenticeships in industry ( 1981 ) . |
| 2 | A DEFLECTED shot from Scott Nisbet that spun off an opponent and then bounced over the head of a bemused Brugge goalkeeper last night kept alive Rangers ' hopes of a place in the European Cup final . |
| 3 | Paul Scot Harris , who plays Catsmeat , my familiar , leaps off stage and runs across the seat-backs , zig-zagging his way to the rear of the auditorium and back , leaping over the heads of squealing delighted children and the ducking ones of parents . |
| 4 | see but we had a head bag where they used to fold a sack in half or put one part through the other and put over the head . |
| 5 | Oliver said he guessed it was partly because Cobalt had led the sort of life where being thumped over the head with a bottle was not a unique experience . |
| 6 | Looking over the heads of the children at the end of this tale , I saw slowly coming towards us , a large brown spiky thing as big as a room , with a dozen legs walking slowly and carefully under it . |
| 7 | When seen over the head of a Naga they designate his rank or position within the Naga hierarchy depending upon his degree of spiritual attainment . |
| 8 | They drive at good-length balls without getting to the pitch and loft strokes over the heads of the inner ring of fieldsmen . |
| 9 | The Northamptonshire Nonconformist listed three reasons for the ‘ decline ’ they saw in Nonconformity : the first was ‘ a cultured ministry which repels rather than attracts [ for ] it shoots over the heads of the people ’ ; the second was a ministry which disregarded the central truths of the Gospel in favour of ‘ the latest theories of the … |
| 10 | We saw earlier that critics in Northampton had protested against what they called a ‘ cultured ministry which … shoots over the heads of the people ’ . |
| 11 | Maybe what we should say at the end of the day is erm just is n't talking about that , he 's on about a completely different subject and we really should n't erm we should n't beat over the head for having a bad theory of the self . |
| 12 | Because the War Wagon tower is so high the rifleman can see over the heads of intervening troops and low terrain features such as low walls and hedges . |
| 13 | Down at Lucifer 's feet , in front of the stage , a girl with long , black hair stood on tip-toe but still could not see over the heads of the crowd . |
| 14 | But you can sail over the head of any McLaren owner by giving the build-it-yourself Cobra helicopter , able to park in tight spots . |
| 15 | A quarrel between Corcyra , a daughter-city of Corinth , and Epidamnos , a daughter-city of Corcyra herself , led to the first open clash , the battle of Sybota , between Athenian and Peloponnesian League ships ( 433 ) : Epidamnos had appealed over the head of Corcyra to the ‘ grandmother ’ Corinth , while Corcyra asked for , and got , help from Athens . |
| 16 | I 've had three weeks of being ordered about , laughed at , sneered at , talked over the head of , ignored . |
| 17 | The threat of removal elsewhere , if one 's condition gets worse , is one that hangs over the heads of vulnerable elderly people in both private and local authority residential homes in many cases . |
| 18 | The chief mourner continued to wear a coat with train , together with the mourning hood , but even the manner of wearing the hood changed : draped round the shoulders like a short scarf rather than being worn over the head . |
| 19 | It gradually descended and changed in colour , until it became a blue-grey mist seething over the heads of the musicians , almost as if the sweat generated by their exertions was steaming in cold air above them . |
| 20 | Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem , that mythical beast , the Wyvern of Wessex , half dragon , half eagle , that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles ? |
| 21 | Above that a heavy mantle is wrapped all round the body and brought over the head . |
| 22 | Overhead , flights of pigeons wheeled through the minarets , cutting over the heads of the congregation towards the Red Fort . |
| 23 | Piladu kept his face averted , staring over the heads of his lamenting flock . |
| 24 | Honestly , though , who out there has n't at several junctions been reduced by sleeplessness , exhaustion and sheer frustration into staring over the heads of your babies at the man who fathered them , and thinking what in hell 's name am I doing with this person ? |
| 25 | This point was well illustrated in a Church row that once broke over the head of a certain man . |
| 26 | It involves co-operation between both sides of the body : for instance , as one leg is put into a trouser-leg , the other holds the body upright ; a sweater has to be pulled over the head and then organized so that one 's arms can slide into the sleeves . |
| 27 | For ease , upper garments like a sweater or shirt are pulled over the head first , and the hemiplegic arm comes out of its sleeve last . |
| 28 | All the peoples of the far north-east wore two-layer deerskin clothing , the men having a jerkin pulled over the head , while women wore a combination garment . |
| 29 | ‘ As a matter of fact , the really nasty bit was when I was walking across here , coming over the head of the cliff there with the wind trying to blow me out to sea again . ’ |
| 30 | Loss of employment as the result of an uninvestigated charge of neglect of duty or malversation was not the only threat hanging over the head of an officer of the revenue . |