Example sentences of "her head " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Two days later in what was a completely strange country I found myself doing this audition piece and I can remember very clearly sitting in the antechamber afterwards and the registrar popping her head round the door and saying balefully to a group of us sitting there , ‘ Sorry , none of you ’ . |
| 2 | So when the great lady detective drew a hair from her head and stuck it across the lock on the front door of Sir Vivien 's motor car , Constable Quince said nothing . |
| 3 | Peggy shook her head , unable to speak . |
| 4 | Garments fluttered over her head and she emerged more or less inside a pleated tennis dress , sailor-collared but daringly short . |
| 5 | Jack came rushing down from his room on the top floor and threw himself down beside Bunty , cradling her head . |
| 6 | Ethel shook her head regretfully . |
| 7 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 8 | The bounce was now back in Jenny 's step , I noticed , as I watched her head off towards the tube . |
| 9 | She lay safe , held warm , and Jay drew adoring fingertips along her throat , learning her ear lobes by heart , Lucy 's breast was so soft and smooth , Jay dipped her head and sucked her nipple , in ecstasy , in prayer , fingers tracing mystery . |
| 10 | Piggy-wig shook her head knowingly . |
| 11 | She put her head on the table and wept . |
| 12 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 13 | Jay gripped , burrowed her head in Lucy 's belly : here so safe and wanted inside her beloved Jeremy had grown ; her brow nudged Lucy 's breasts , where Jeremy had sucked himself full and strong , where she had found a contentment warm as summer wind across white sands ; here she had swum easy as a seal , crystal seas halcyon over her head . |
| 14 | The woman had short very black hair , stylishly cut away from the curve of her jaw ; her head was upright , and her firm chin rested on one hand . |
| 15 | Scars throb , pain brings blood to her head and her great paws close on the knife . |
| 16 | Jay could have slammed her head against the table and wept . |
| 17 | Mary was kneeling with her head and shoulders inside the dark cave of a box-bed . |
| 18 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 19 | Julia shook her head . |
| 20 | If she sat beside him her head would loll onto his shoulder and stay there for long moments . |
| 21 | She shook her head and looked at her watch . |
| 22 | She tossed the end of her red scarf over her shoulder , flung back her head and strode over to him . |
| 23 | She opened a wicker sewing box , looked inside , shook her head and closed the box again . |
| 24 | Around her head she wore , Furu-fashion , the bright band she had woven from the silks . |
| 25 | Susan tilted her head . |
| 26 | Sara ducked her head to dodge low branches ; brambles tore at her legs . |
| 27 | She smiled , turning her head first to one side , then to the other so that they could all see the smile . |
| 28 | The cat brooch stuck out ; the bustier was precarious ; worse , she could see the tips of her toes so her shoulders must have rounded , her head drooped . |
| 29 | She shook her head , ‘ I know it 's very bad . |
| 30 | Jeff loves it ; he strokes his hand over her head as if she were a child . |