Example sentences of "above [pos pn] head [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " Let's try it on then , " said my mother , and I stood up obediently with my hands above my head while she said the silky material over my arms . |
| 2 | Father got a bit worked up about this , but it was above my head until I got down to the specific steps to success which appear in the following chapters , so just remember OIL . |
| 3 | I shook my hair back and waved my arms above my head as Pike mopped and mowed in front of me and the band struck up an impromptu tune . |
| 4 | As I raised my hands above my head and let out a howl , two male People rushed into the cave . |
| 5 | A lot of the information was above her head but she had persevered until she learnt how to keep a good set of accounts . |
| 6 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 7 | To have Midnight lying almost above her head and yet to be incapable of protecting him , or even taking the water he needed , was a kind of torment . |
| 8 | Lucinda held the lighter above her head and flicked it again . |
| 9 | When an insect comes near , she straightens out her legs and holds the net above her head and so entraps it . |
| 10 | But she lifted the grenade above her head and took aim . |
| 11 | She swung her arms above her head and cracked her hand on a low beam . |
| 12 | The ‘ trees ’ put her in mind of the Bridge : nests of translucent pink roots which burst from the powdery soil and curved upwards into single trunks which soared above her head and fanned out again into an inverted cone of branches . |
| 13 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 14 | It was a reading lamp , a tranquil Chinese lady in blanc de ChIne with a light above her head and a pink pagoda-shaped shade . |
| 15 | Damian opened the bedroom door , and as she stumbled in he flicked on the light and the fan began to whir softly above her head as she stood in the centre of the room , the vast white double bed behind her , the wooden floor warm beneath her feet . |
| 16 | It was then that she read Angela Kunze 's manifesto , written in blue on a long ribbon of paper above her head where she rests against the wall : ‘ I am fasting to cleanse myself of fear and hopelessness , hate and violence , impatience and the lust for novelty . |
| 17 | He lifted one arm across her , paralleling her own , spreading it out over the double bed above her head until their fingers meshed . |
| 18 | Now the puppet raised its hands above its head and swayed from side to side . |
| 19 | His arms were raised above his head but not raised so far that he showed any fear either . |
| 20 | He could n't rise into that great openness which was only inches above his head where the wind blew free … and especially not with that vow he had made holding him back . |
| 21 | ‘ Of course , ’ he agreed smoothly , leaning back in the chair to stretch his arms above his head as though sitting still had cramped his muscles . |
| 22 | Then he grabbed a crystal glass eagle that had been presented to Mr Reagan , 81 , raised it above his head and smashed it on to the podium . |
| 23 | Having a fat youth in your crew , whose shoulders were way above his head and who was brilliant at bristling . |
| 24 | In one of the new ballets , Celia Franca 's Khadra , which was inspired by Persian miniatures , Gerhardt had to catch Anne Heaton , playing his wife , from a platform at shoulder height , raise her above his head and lower her gently . |
| 25 | It was eleven thirty as Yanto watched the last sling of timber disappear through the hatch opening high above his head and swing out of sight towards the wharf . |
| 26 | Then he grabbed the next branch above his head and pulled himself up again . |
| 27 | The raging young lad raised the chopper above his head and brought it down with tremendous force . |
| 28 | A bullet cracked inches above his head and he flung himself behind a row of metal dustbins , the Browning clenched tightly in his hand . |
| 29 | he made a fifty that day , lifted his bat above his head and had a heart attack . ’ |
| 30 | Then my father swung me up out of the sledge high above his head and down again , trying to distract me , to make light of what had happened and make me see the funny side of it . |