Example sentences of "the [noun sg] of my neck " in BNC.
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| 1 | He climbs back into bed , grabs my breast and nuzzles me in the crook of my neck . |
| 2 | There 's this fist of flesh at the base of my neck , which the men do n't yet have . |
| 3 | The suspects were then brought up by number , a single man at a time ( and as I heard them begin with ‘ one ’ , the skin of my neck tightened in anticipation of gunfire which never came ) . |
| 4 | He was lying with his head in the hollow of my neck and shoulder , breathing quietly ; his voice had a languorous , far-away sound , as if he were rocking slowly in a hammock on a hot summer day . |
| 5 | He conducted me back down the cold stone steps by the scruff of my neck and soon I found myself back in the street again . |
| 6 | It was 11.3Oam and the crick in the back of my neck told me it was time to give up trying to read ‘ War and Peace ’ lying on a sunbed under the July Spanish sun . |
| 7 | That pain in the back of my neck is four pairs of eyes watching every step I take to the church . |
| 8 | I lay very still , the hair rising on the back of my neck as something nudged me through the canvas . |
| 9 | The stubble on the back of my neck tingled . |
| 10 | I felt uneasy and the back of my neck was prickly with sweat , but relentlessly I kept the same pace towards them . |
| 11 | Something prickly crawled up my spine to the back of my neck , and my stomach tightened . |
| 12 | Then he said , ‘ If I was to advertise this job how likely would you be to apply for it ? ’ , and suddenly the hairs prickled on the back of my neck , because I knew he was serious . |
| 13 | There was a fluid pain at the back of my neck and my own voice was strange to me . |
| 14 | I awoke in the middle of the night with a pain in the back of my neck and a beating headache . |
| 15 | The sound makes small silverfish run down the back of my neck . |
| 16 | Harry 's breath felt like the blast from a sauna door against the back of my neck as he cropped pungent cedar shoots along the way . |
| 17 | The fog had solidified into a strong pressure on the back of my neck . |
| 18 | He bent his head into the hollow at the back of my neck . |
| 19 | As the women 's voices soared and broke into part-singing so that the phrase ‘ We sit down and weep ’ rang round and round the group , the hair prickled on the back of my neck . |
| 20 | so help us , in here the back of my neck , and across here . |
| 21 | in the back of my neck . |
| 22 | I could n't turn my head , but I could smell her , feel her breath on the back of my neck . |
| 23 | She pulled away , surprised eyes sparkling , and let her hands play with the back of my neck : I tasted sweet lipstick . |
| 24 | Sometimes , at the intersections , she comes so close that I can feel her breath on the back of my neck . |
| 25 | I could feel the hairs rise at the back of my neck as I said , ‘ You 've seen her ? ’ |
| 26 | Casey brings a double-handed chop down on the back of my neck , just off target but enough to send me reeling in a flood of numb red nausea . |
| 27 | Oh oh my hair 's standing up at the back of my neck . |
| 28 | But I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and decided that maybe I 'd better not say too much in front of the stranger . |
| 29 | He smiled and I felt the hairs on the back of my neck go rigid . |
| 30 | I was getting ratty and the rain was going down the back of my neck . |