Example sentences of "on [pos pn] head [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 2 | on my head you can call me Normal Lamont . |
| 3 | If I was walking down a street and some scaffolding fell on my head I would n't say ‘ oh dear ’ . ' |
| 4 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 5 | An interesting thought , because he turns on its head our usual temptation to crowd prayer out when we are busy . |
| 6 | The little girl had intensely blue eyes like her own , and a covering of golden down on her head which set Sarah 's lips tingling when they brushed over it . |
| 7 | Placing his large hand on her head he looked at her mother . |
| 8 | On her head she wore a green felt hat , with a pin stuck through it like a bodkin . |
| 9 | This artificial ash cliff is perhaps one of their last strongholds have also found refuge around our fire stations , protected from tramping feet and sheltered from chemical sprays these rare plants thrive in the damp salty margins alongside the ash lagoons all this within the boundaries with just a few of the country 's coal fired power stations but the need for sea walls of other coastal stations merely intake pipes to the coaling system , another world teams this is not a plant , fan worms have flowerlike mouth parts used to filter food from the sea water other worms use just two sticky tentacles to catch food shrimps forage over closely packed sea the delicate bodies of these printed vertebrates work as tiny water pumps , pulling water in one hole and pumping it through the other here two barnacles feed in the gentle flow of water over the cooling pipes from the station Marine life quickly packs the underwater structures and is about to become too thick and sometimes affect the performance of the machinery barnacles belong to the same family as crabs and lobsters , but being in their adult life standing on their head which is fixed to the concrete they use their feet to filter the water and kick food into their mouths but if they ca n't move , how do they get there so quickly in the first place ? |
| 10 | If a slate falls on their head I would , in normal circumstances , be obliged to assist . |
| 11 | Supported by four Landrovers and equipped with a few flimsy spares , they sported jeans and shorts rather than jodhpurs , tee-shirts instead of ties and jackets , while on their heads they wore cheches — and definitely not pith-helmets. but if the style was different , the spirit was certainly reminiscent of those pioneer days . |
| 12 | On their heads they wore a steel bonnet , either a ‘ salade ’ like a rimless upturned bowl , a peaked version known as a burgonet , or a morion with curved brim and raised centrepiece like a cockscomb . |
| 13 | On their heads they wear fezes . |
| 14 | She had to comply and soon afterwards he was crowned : as the crown was placed on his head his retainers , to a man , drew their swords with a rasp of steel and brandished them in the air . |
| 15 | On his head he wore a white nightcap … ‘ |
| 16 | On his head he wears a head-dress of lion mane . |
| 17 | On his head he wore a Ming-style summer hat , its inverted bowl lined with red fur and capped with a single ruby . |
| 18 | Unlike the other Annamese present who wore court robes , he was dressed in the conventional short black gown and white trousers of an ordinary civilian and on his head he wore the traditional black turban of the region . |
| 19 | Even when people are stamping on his head he still carries that inane smile . |
| 20 | On his head he sported a thin white mosque-cap . |
| 21 | He had such a huge lump on his head I thought he had fractured his skull . ’ |
| 22 | Put it on your head you dickhead |
| 23 | If he says stand on your head you will , but after that he 's got to do it all by persuasion . |