Example sentences of "our head " in BNC.
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| 1 | We turn a sledge on to its side for shelter , and by the light from our head torches we examine the wound . |
| 2 | In retrospect this seems to be an obvious statement because four of the senses are located in the head and , if we follow our senses as we are designed to , then our head will automatically lead the way . |
| 3 | And turning our head directly to the source of the new input , we can then decide — if we have time — upon appropriate action . |
| 4 | The Ego is constantly chattering about its fears , worries and doubts , cluttering up our head with thoughts that go nowhere — just in case we decide to think for ourselves , to question , to explore new possibilities , to feel our suppressed emotions , to reach beyond our old ways of being , to develop a new vision . |
| 5 | ‘ Onstage , ’ Fred reflects , ‘ he 's this outrageous lunatic camp person , but half an hour after the gig he 's back at the hotel reading Somerset Maugham and Rob and I are being disgusting to some barmaid completely off our head . ’ |
| 6 | As we set off we catch some of them in the beams of our head torches , along with the bats which are madly pursuing them . |
| 7 | We get out of the car , stomp round to the wheel , look at it , kick it , swear , look at our watch , feel guilty about not having left enough time to cope with the unexpected , open the boot , bang our head on it , swear again , wonder whether it would n't be better to walk to the phone , decide to change the wheel ourselves , lose one of the nuts and eventually arrive at the meeting half an hour late in a filthy temper , and take up the next five minutes explaining that it must have been a sharp chipping off one of those construction lorries and they overload them to save money and they ought to do something about it … |
| 8 | Everything about the place was different : the thick darkness broken only by the beam of our head torches : the damp chill of the air : and the chocolate coloured shiny walls and floors which looked like they had Cadbury 's Flake crumbled all over them . |
| 9 | Our head of bureaux suggested they ring the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | What I want now is a head of department in a really good school , and then I 'd do what our head of department has done . |
| 11 | BY repeating words ‘ in our head ’ , verbal material ( such as telephone numbers ) can be kept in working memory almost indefinitely . |
| 12 | We have beaten our head against that brick wall too often . |
| 13 | ( One occasionally encounters a burst of inanity of Nobel proportions , as in this : " Our capacity for deceiving ourselves about the operation of the brain is almost limitless , mainly because what we can report is only a minute fraction of what goes on in our head . |
| 14 | And so while these things here enable us to leave home , if you like , these things are buzzing round in our head and in marketing these are things we have to look at in order to , we have to be able to make product and then try and assess how will the tourist or potential tourist respond to this . |
| 15 | We 've got both , if you like , cultural motivations in our head . |
| 16 | Hell , we even have a foreign monarch as our head of state . |
| 17 | In comparison , our pinnae — the fleshy shells on either side of our head , which we call our ears — are poor sound gatherers . |
| 18 | To locate faint sounds we automatically maximise the difference in time of arrival and loudness of the sound by turning our head until one ear is facing the source of the sound . |
| 19 | They would n't serve us at the first few joints we tried , which was n't surprising , because we came through the door yelling our head off , or trying to , in this faulty new voice of ours . |
| 20 | Above our head , an unregarded observatory of light . |
| 21 | The whole thing was dreamt up by our head of administration . ’ |
| 22 | We can put our head in the sand , like the ostrich , without love . |
| 23 | There is in the Godhead in heaven one who fully understands us and is there as our representative and our head . |
| 24 | On the other hand we do quite frequently mutter to ourselves as we try to deduce something logically — or even if we do n't make a sound we often use words in our head when trying to work out a complex problem . |
| 25 | Our head of department put it all together and then let us read it to see if there was anything we wished to change and add and then submitted it … |
| 26 | Our head rails were washed away and our water casks drove en masse from side to midships . |
| 27 | And now in reverence to the mill I think we should lower our head |
| 28 | They said no , Miss , and when she said to them , you never think about rape do you , they said , no Miss , the thought never entered our head . |
| 29 | Once we had our head blown off . |
| 30 | I do n't the membership will want a revolution but what we do require is that evolution considered carefully so we do n't stand still and keep our head in the sands and I give you insurance that is what is , is happening . |