Example sentences of "over [art] head [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some beat us with rifles ’ . |
| 2 | Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some kicked us , some pulled and pushed us , some beat us with rifles . |
| 3 | Then hold the ear up over the head with one hand and carefully brush the hair down . |
| 4 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 6 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 7 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 8 | The first time Nathan knew for certain that something was n't right was when Donald smashed him over the head with a can of beans . |
| 9 | How many times can you sit in your chair and let someone smash you over the head with a can of beans ? |
| 10 | If we 're finally able to exclude Burrows from this tangle , and all my instincts tell me he 's not involved , then we shall have to start looking for a compelling reason for one of those people to smash Wetherby over the head with a statuette . ’ |
| 11 | I much prefer to hear someone angry , almost sledgehammering you over the head with their guitar . |
| 12 | After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks , bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 13 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
| 14 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 15 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 16 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 17 | And you ca n't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd , didactic behaviour . |
| 18 | For example , the child who has been taught and has learned to make his babysitter laugh whenever he plays with her can not also hit her over the head with a toy when he is playing with her . |
| 19 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 20 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 21 | A Chelmsford motorist was hit over the head with a golf club , during an altercation at a hamburger stall on the A12 near to the town . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd see a lot more stars when Carmen hit me over the head with it . |
| 23 | You stand still and listen to what I 've got to say , and if you do n't stop looking at me like that I 'll hit you over the head with this . " |
| 24 | I heard the noise , and had my hand halfway to my gun when somebody beat me over the head with the Empire State Building . |
| 25 | He had a peculiar habit of sliding effortlessly from throwing me a bait to hitting me over the head with it . |
| 26 | Worriedly judging her moment , and hoping fervently that the other two heard nothing , she slipped out behind the third man , and cracked him over the head with the cutters . |
| 27 | Often the choice was to weep or else to hit their partner over the head with an axe or say really horrible things to them . |
| 28 | In her panic , and to make sure he stayed unconscious , she hit him twice over the head with the base of the standard lamp . |
| 29 | Oliver said he guessed it was partly because Cobalt had led the sort of life where being thumped over the head with a bottle was not a unique experience . |
| 30 | They looked intently at him , then at each other , then executed a smart about-face ; the scullion with the loaf threw it at the other , who caught it and started to hit the other minion over the head with it as they ran back into the mist the way they had come , their figures — one crouched almost double , one striking out with the loaf of bread — and their running footsteps quickly absorbed by the rolling mists . |