Example sentences of "its head " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR 's motive-power policy was rapidly turned on its head with the abandonment of two sacred principles : sectorisation saw the end of the common-user policy for locomotives and passenger multiple units : and no longer was it accepted that life-expired main-line cast-offs should spend their last days propping up secondary services . |
| 2 | Their assumption that ‘ he knows what he has done wrong ’ is based on the fact that Rover is slinking along the floor with its head and tail down looking for all the world like a naughty school boy who 's just broken the headmaster 's window . |
| 3 | And as to Spasov and being saved — ‘ Il me semble que tout le monde va à Spassof ’ — there is still some comic devillife in him as he quotes the Saviour against his bible-selling saviour because she is taking thought for the morrow , and as he turns the gospel on its head with ‘ Happiness does n't pay me because I start at once forgiving all my enemies . ’ |
| 4 | When I reach its head the man in charge goes away to conduct a transaction involving cardboard boxes . |
| 5 | A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head . |
| 6 | I do like to be able to pick a fish up by its head , ’ William Black said , waving a sea bass in rigor mortis at me , before going on to inspect its gills . |
| 7 | Aids is now on the downward trajectory of fashionable worries , barely able to keep its head above the surface of apathetic extinction . |
| 8 | Then they were a single out away from going one game up in Dodger Stadium — only for Kirk Gibson to turn the Series on its head with a home run at the last moment . |
| 9 | Sociology just seems to turn all that on its head . |
| 10 | The great Dust Bowl which Maggie has seen only from the air , was once the long flank , the turning of the armpit of a dragon greater than Fenna , the great dragon laid out across the world its tail cooled by the oceans of the Antarctic and its breath , no longer fire , turned to ice around its head in the most northerly places of the globe . |
| 11 | Nineteenth-century amateurism has been stood on its head . |
| 12 | It was ‘ perfectly beastly ’ as Warnie said in his diary , to see ‘ P's grave with its fresh turned earth and a handful of withered daffodils at its head alongside Mamy 's . |
| 13 | A monster eating a child does not just gnaw its head , but holds its wrists to stop it wriggling . |
| 14 | The Cottage in the Wood Hotel , Malvern Wells , Hereford & Worcester , can not be accused of burying its head in the sand with its decision to introduce South African ostrich to its à la carte lunch and dinner menu . |
| 15 | At this point another problem reared its head . |
| 16 | In the first four years of her marriage that life had been turned on its head , transformed out of all recognition . |
| 17 | The answer was that community service was a political minefield , and had been rejected as unworkable every time it had reared its head . |
| 18 | The princess , whose casting was unclear , placed flowers on its head . |
| 19 | It is only the dedication of charities like Oxfam , which has a team of permanent aid workers in Cambodia , that enables the UK to hold up its head . |
| 20 | POLLOCK had stood the art of painting on its head , reversed it , negated it . |
| 21 | ( One was for hitting a ball out of a cart rut ; its head was no bigger than a soup spoon . ) |
| 22 | White tribalists claim that the ANC lacks support beyond the Xhosa people , who are disproportionately represented at its head . |
| 23 | In accordance with his political views , Hobbes found no room for religious dissent from an established church with the absolute sovereign as its head . |
| 24 | An interesting thought , because he turns on its head our usual temptation to crowd prayer out when we are busy . |
| 25 | Jane withdrew , not her presence , but her mind , as a tortoise withdraws its head . |
| 26 | He hit it and its head dropped off . |
| 27 | It had horrible china curls all over its head like a lousy perm and a red-silk bow round its throat . |
| 28 | Hers had an embroidered picture of a lamb standing in a field of flowers with yellow light sprouting out from around its head . |
| 29 | It was a small grave , and at its head was a low wooden cross inscribed with his name , date of birth , and date of death ; and as I passed , I had a vision of a little Aberdeen terrier who had gone off for a run by himself , and was now sporting in the fields of Paradise . |
| 30 | There was the black coffin with its silvered ornaments and the mourner who sat at its head this time was a widowed husband ! |