Example sentences of "over her head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 2 | Jeff loves it ; he strokes his hand over her head as if she were a child . |
| 3 | She had no prospect of a job and , without even a roof over her head , she was an automatic candidate for cardboard city — the community of derelicts who survive on the capital 's streets , in danger of sinking into a subculture of drugs and crime . |
| 4 | Then she heard an enormous crash , a bomb exploding somewhere very near , a great roar of shattering glass and , after a moment 's stillness , screaming , ear-splitting , horrible screaming , from just over her head . |
| 5 | She pulled the duvet over her head and ignored it . |
| 6 | ‘ She 'll have a roof over her head as long as I 'm above ground , ’ he responded aggressively . |
| 7 | She looks like a nurse in her blue uniform and her scarf over her head . |
| 8 | His wife was slammed against a wall , sexually threatened and ordered to stand with her arms raised over her head until she collapsed . |
| 9 | The people she would have to deal with in the London offices , paved with razor wire , rose up before her grotesquely and she would pull the sheets over her head and moan : ‘ I do n't want to get up — ever again ! ’ |
| 10 | I suppose , technically speaking , ’ he paused , ‘ if you put her out into the road she would have no roof over her head and we should have to take her in . ’ |
| 11 | Bella pulled a cellular blanket up over her head , closed her eyes and lay , as still as she could , under her heap of covers . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , I never ! ’ said Aunt Bedelia stalking off with her skirt up over her head showing her fleecy-lined Directoire knickers . |
| 13 | She had pulled a pretty knitted skull-cap over her head and pinned it in place with metal grips . |
| 14 | And she promptly burst into tears , throwing her soiled apron over her head to hide . |
| 15 | Rising from the toilet , she pulls the nightdress over her head and steps into the bath , not first pulling the chain of the toilet because that would affect the temperature of the water coming through the showerhead on the end of its flexible tube , with which she now hoses herself down . |
| 16 | I have decided that as from tonight I will be reborn under a different star , ’ and here she gestured upwards to the constellation over her head , ‘ I will be rechristened , I will come down those stairs tomorrow night fresh to the world and glistening with a new name ; from now on , you will kindly refer to me , both to my sainted face and behind my back , as Mother . |
| 17 | Ahead of him Elinor was pulling her dress over her head . |
| 18 | The great naturalist Edward Topsel , in the seventeenth century , waxed lyrical about feline play : ‘ Therefore how she beggeth , playeth , leapeth , looketh , catcheth , tosseth with her foot , riseth up to strings held over her head , sometimes creeping , sometimes lying on the back , playing with one foot , sometimes on the belly , snatching now with mouth , and anon with the foot … ’ |
| 19 | She pulled a basket over her head and crouched down again . |
| 20 | The chosen person stands with her back to the rest and throws the ball over her head without looking to see where it lands . |
| 21 | Clinging on to her big picture hat with one hand and holding up her white parasol with the other , there was nothing left to prevent the hot wind from the Andes blowing her dress over her head , to reveal a white suspender belt and French knickers . |
| 22 | Suddenly question marks hung over her head . |
| 23 | The smoke had cleared , revealing at least half the school lined up in rows and Miss Hardbroom still in the same position , with the bucket neatly over her head . |
| 24 | The sight of any other teacher dripping with water and with a bucket over her head would have been an occasion for great mirth among the pupils , but absolutely nothing could diminish Miss Hardbroom 's power . |
| 25 | She fastened the rough cords with practised hands which remembered that which their owner had all but forgotten — thus concealing the blue brocade gown — and pulled the hood over her head . |
| 26 | She was combing out her blonde hair and pouring a colourless liquid from a bottle over her head . |
| 27 | Vi had a roof over her head again , bed and board and two shillings a day pay , and , better than that , she had found someone to mother . |
| 28 | More gravel hit the glass , her name was called more loudly , but she ignored it and pulled the bedclothes over her head . |
| 29 | Jacqueline Bridger , 46 , poured a can of petrol over her head in the office of Michael Sargeant , the man she claimed had been her lover , the Old Bailey was told . |
| 30 | She started to pull the jersey over her head . |