Example sentences of "[verb] my head [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 2 | With a mounting feeling of dread , I went to a chair at the far end of the table from Quigley and lowered my head in the gloom . |
| 3 | His fist crunches into my left cheek and drives my head against the ground . |
| 4 | I settled back in my seat , resting my head against the sheepskin , wondering at the strange minuet of their lives , the complexities of their dance of life . |
| 5 | I jerked my head towards the stairs , having already clocked the sign saying Intensive Care 4th Floor , and Les Girls followed me without breaking step . |
| 6 | I jerked my head in the direction of the mountain above us . |
| 7 | But I was an alien being in a green screen world , lost , weeping with rage and frustration , cuffing the poor old computer , banging my head off the keyboard . |
| 8 | If I start to get mad , I 'll just be banging my head against the wall . |
| 9 | If Heavy Metal means banging my head against the wall , then I 'm that . |
| 10 | The three ruffians pummelled me , banging my head against the wooden slats . |
| 11 | I got up , staggered to the window and , while keeping my head below the level of the sill , attempted to close it . |
| 12 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 13 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 14 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 15 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 16 | I dribbled , I wet my pants , even banged my head on the furniture , and bawled … bawled almost nonstop . |
| 17 | I turned round to go , but things were blurring again and I misjudged the turn and banged my head against the edge of the door . |
| 18 | He banged my head against the Land Rover 's side window . |
| 19 | I shake my head at the Amiga screen . |
| 20 | I put my head under the blanket , but it was no use . |
| 21 | I put my head under the tap and let the cool water run over me . |
| 22 | I put my head round the corner : ‘ What if a horse came and broke his leg on the ice ? ’ |
| 23 | She grabbed hold of me and rammed my head into the crook of her arm and tried to force the bar into my mouth . |
| 24 | I rested my head on the glass , and up went a pigeon . |
| 25 | I put the receiver down and rested my head against the back of the kiosk . |
| 26 | At once I turned my head to the source of the light . |
| 27 | A large sketchbook especially put aside for this project allowed me to work freely , and clear my head of the fact that I was working to a commission . |
| 28 | And should all efforts fail to entice the public , it 's Neneh who 'll need to ‘ go on a long holiday and bury my head in the sand ’ . |
| 29 | Every day , I always used to stick my head around the office door and say , ‘ Anything for me today ? ’ — and one day they said , ‘ Well , we 're looking for dancers for the BBC 's production of Pistol Shot ( which was a play by Chekhov ) — maybe you 'd like to do it and choreograph it and use some of your students ? ’ |
| 30 | By this time I was on my knees trying to make up my mind whether to bow my head in the direction of Japan , Taiwan , Singapore , Eindhoven or the US . |