Example sentences of "[pos pn] head [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I jerked my head towards the stairs , having already clocked the sign saying Intensive Care 4th Floor , and Les Girls followed me without breaking step . |
| 2 | ‘ Come on , ’ I said , jerking my head towards the HQ sign . |
| 3 | I heard Daffodil 's voice before I saw her , so that when Filmer came past the door of the bar I was bending down with my head below the counter as if to be tidying things there . |
| 4 | I got up , staggered to the window and , while keeping my head below the level of the sill , attempted to close it . |
| 5 | This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’ |
| 6 | I shake my head at the Amiga screen . |
| 7 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 8 | ‘ It is very evident that since the publication of the paperback the campaign against it has subsided , to such an extent that even one of my most hardline critics , the British Muslim Dr Kalim Siddiqui , was recently quoted in the Guardian as saying it is time to forgive and forget , which is a rather extraordinary volte-face from someone who was until recently asking for my head on a plate . |
| 9 | The Luciferi of France ( I 'll come to those bastards later ) would like to see my head on a pole . |
| 10 | I went over to the bed , climbed on top of it , put my head on the pillow and fell asleep . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm afraid of slipping in the dark and cracking my head on the edge of the bunker , ’ I had said . |
| 12 | One evening as I was nearing Farr 's entrance , I was running , tripped , with the result that I banged my head on the pavement . |
| 13 | ’ ’ I 'm sure I 'm going to leave the ground and float up and hit my head on the ceiling , and all the time the voices are call ‘ DO IT DO IT DO IT … ’ |
| 14 | ‘ All right , so it 's my head on the block , ’ Manville conceded . |
| 15 | Saying this lays my head on the block , because the modern climber is much better at small hold pulling and on jamming cracks , thrutchy chimneys and greasy grooves , than I am . |
| 16 | ‘ I hit my head on the kerb when I fell and when I went to hospital two days later they told me I had severe bruising of the brain , ’ said Walter after his Kempton win on Mithl Al Hawa . |
| 17 | It hit me and I fell , cutting my head on the door . |
| 18 | I rested my head on the glass , and up went a pigeon . |
| 19 | I dribbled , I wet my pants , even banged my head on the furniture , and bawled … bawled almost nonstop . |
| 20 | I came down with quite a thud , and hit my head on the stair post . ’ |
| 21 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 22 | Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat . |
| 23 | I lay on my back , my head on the sandy ground , staring out to the side where the body of the buck lay at the end of a little curved line of black , and tangled in the arm-rest and grip of the catapult . |
| 24 | He says I hit my head on the ashtray . |
| 25 | I struck my head on the moving machinery and hurt my back . |
| 26 | used to bang my head on the bloody thing ! |
| 27 | I , however , strutted out like a barnyard cock , booted and cloaked , a broad-brimmed hat on my head with a black and white plume hanging from it . |
| 28 | And then there 's this technician or something here and they ask me to breathe in helium from a mask and make me repeat some of the things gorilla man said on the video so I feel like I 'm becoming him they 're trying to make me him ; I do n't think I sound the same as the guy on the brain-snuff video but fuck knows what they think there are too many to know what the fuck they think ; loads of them , officers from all over the fucking place with different accents , London , Midlands , Welsh , Scottish , elsewhere , God knows , it 's not just Flavell and McDunn though I still see them now and again especially McDunn who looks at me kind of weird most of the time like he ca n't really believe it was me did all these things and I get this bizarre feeling that he thinks I 'm kind of pathetic I mean that in a grudging , still-determined-to-bust-the-fucker way he actually has more respect for gorilla man than he does for me because I 've just gone to pieces under the questions and the things they put in my head with those photographs and that video ( ha which means gorilla man has already put stuff into my head , already has fucked my brains , filling my head with the idea of that , the vision , the meme of that ) and I thought I was some tough cookie but I was wrong I 'm just a dunked digestive baby I 'm soft I 'm flopping I 'm disintegrating and that 's why unless I 'm the best fucking actor he 's ever seen McDunn ca n't accept I was capable of the things gorilla man did , yet so much of the evidence , especially the dates and times that sort of stuff , points at me not to mention that piece of TV-crit I did that reads like a hit-list now . |
| 29 | The Welsh lad 's got this steady gaze on me like he wants to use my head as a rugby ball . |
| 30 | I work straight out of my head onto the canvas . |