Example sentences of "[pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it has to be said , he wrote , that its opposite , a feeling of elation , equally physical , equally extra-physical , has also been a constant feature of my life , manifesting itself regularly though impossible to predict , a reeling in the chest this time , the chest and perhaps the throat , a feeling of the heart leaping and the blood pumping , it came when I first took up a brush and made a mark on paper , it came when I picked up the first readymade and felt it transformed by that very action , it came when Madge rang to say she could not go on , when Annie wrote to say she was not coming back , when the idea of the glass first popped into my head . |
| 2 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 3 | We will leave it to Goldberg to disengage the tone from the shit , he wrote , we will leave it to Honeyman and McGough , much good may it do them , though I will no doubt come back to the question before my project is completed , the big glass and the notes to the big glass , these two to be worked on at night , and this freewheeling commentary on both to be written by day , putting down whatever comes into my head after a night 's work , no correction , no revision , whatever comes into my head , the first two to be worked on by artificial light , the strategy clear , this by natural light wherever possible , no strategy at all , the first to be exhibited , the second to be published in the form of sheets in a box , a blue box or a red box , I have not yet made up my mind , in a limited edition , not a luxury edition but a restricted edition , five hundred boxes perhaps or even two hundred and fifty , all that will become clearer in the course of my work on the big glass , of my work on the notes to the big glass , now I have finally embarked on the major project of my life , the climactic project of my life , leading to the end of my life , all will grow clearer , wrote Harsnet , whether to try and call back and destroy all I have done till now or let it be , whether to burn this commentary or let it be , or perhaps leave it to Goldberg to do whatever he wants with , all these things will no doubt be resolved before the work is completed , that is the beauty of being in the middle of a project , that time itself , which had seemed such an enemy before I started , rushing forward and dragging me with it , impervious to my pleas , has suddenly turned friendly , flops down at my feet , licks my ankles , lets me know it is on my side . |
| 4 | Fear that all this may just be in my head . |
| 5 | What had been in my head for so long now out there , in the world . |
| 6 | I shook my head . |
| 7 | People said I 'd gone off my head . |
| 8 | Once they had left , I locked myself in , went back to my desk , sat down and buried my head in my hands . |
| 9 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 10 | At the first hotel I worked in , I had shared an ‘ office , with one other cleaner — a taciturn alcoholic who taught me how to keep my head down — but in my new job , there were five of us who shared the same poky little room . |
| 11 | I made my way up to the lobby with those final two words of hers ringing around inside my head , and all sorts of other doctor phrases started to enter my mind — people calling me Doctor Streeter , popular songs with the word doctor in them — and then all of a sudden I started to cry . |
| 12 | I gazed at them for a while and then buried my head in my hands . |
| 13 | And with those words ringing inside my head , I went out into the night . |
| 14 | I was shaking my head . |
| 15 | A common cop-out is to say this is all too difficult so I 'm going to get my head down and forget about it . |
| 16 | I shook my head . |
| 17 | I watched her go and then , shaking my head , I turned and walked the other way . |
| 18 | I went over to the bed , climbed on top of it , put my head on the pillow and fell asleep . |
| 19 | I put the receiver down and rested my head against the back of the kiosk . |
| 20 | Inside you , inside you , I can never get enough of being inside you , makes me break apart , clench my teeth , drag breath so deep my head spins . |
| 21 | I groan and hide my head in your side . |
| 22 | Why put my head into the bear 's jaws before I have to ? |
| 23 | My head was bowed down . |
| 24 | I went along there one afternoon and stuck my head round the door ; saw two men in the sort of office you 'd expect of solicitors — box files in neat rows and shelf upon shelf of law reports . |
| 25 | I scratched my head . |
| 26 | I still ca n't convert in my head . ’ |
| 27 | Ordinary experience seems to indicate that brain position determines experience content : where my head is ( in space and in time ) is the most important determinant of the content of my consciousness . |
| 28 | I threw the water over the English boy and his friend , and the fire blazed in my head and heart and between my legs . |
| 29 | Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side . |
| 30 | Images kept on coming at me which , like a crazy horse , I tried to resist , defiantly tossing my head high , but each new picture flashing into my mind enraged me more and more and I shook my head frantically from side to side . |