Example sentences of "[pron] over [art] head [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm |
| 2 | How many times can you sit in your chair and let someone smash you over the head with a can of beans ? |
| 3 | I much prefer to hear someone angry , almost sledgehammering you over the head with their guitar . |
| 4 | You stand still and listen to what I 've got to say , and if you do n't stop looking at me like that I 'll hit you over the head with this . " |
| 5 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
| 6 | And you ca n't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd , didactic behaviour . |
| 7 | She said : ‘ I hit one of them over the head in the bedroom and then I got going . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew that they were n't students and I began to resist but one of them hit me over the head with a gun . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd see a lot more stars when Carmen hit me over the head with it . |
| 10 | I heard the noise , and had my hand halfway to my gun when somebody beat me over the head with the Empire State Building . |
| 11 | He had a peculiar habit of sliding effortlessly from throwing me a bait to hitting me over the head with it . |
| 12 | ‘ Do n't worry … you can sleep alone — I can take a hint that I 'm not wanted without you having to hit me over the head with it , ’ he finished bitterly . |
| 13 | At one point they fell out and Schine chased Cohn through a hotel lobby swatting him over the head with a rolled-up magazine , to the delight of the large Press corps , who wrote stories headlined after the dialogue of the famous duo , ‘ Positively , Mr Cohn ! ’ and ‘ Absolutely , Mr Schine ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ What am I supposed to do ? ’ he said in an aggrieved tone but ( fortunately , Nutty thought ) a misguided girl in puce trousers hit him over the head with a handbag and he launched himself instantly at his aggressor , being no respecter of the female sex , and thereby deflected a fair amount of Jazz 's opposition on to himself , the girl 's screaming indignation making her plight quite plain . |
| 15 | We then hit him over the head with the punt-pole and paddled off out of range of his piteously outstretched hands , cackling demonically as he went down for the third time . |
| 16 | The first time Nathan knew for certain that something was n't right was when Donald smashed him over the head with a can of beans . |
| 17 | After a while they kidnap and murder a young boy for kicks , bashing him over the head with a blunt instrument . |
| 18 | A TIPSY husband ended up in hospital when his wife hit him over the head with their Christmas tree . |
| 19 | He could scarcely have given him a firmer hint if he had hit him over the head with a mallet . |
| 20 | George , at one stage , tried to get up , but one of them hit him over the head with his rifle . |
| 21 | Worriedly judging her moment , and hoping fervently that the other two heard nothing , she slipped out behind the third man , and cracked him over the head with the cutters . |
| 22 | Despite being filled with an overwhelming love and compassion for her husband , who was single-handedly fighting off one of the world 's largest corporations , she 'd also been swept by a strong desire to bash him over the head with his own fax machine ! |
| 23 | Anyway , it 's very , very good news , he 's turned the corner I 've hit him over the head with the newspaper ! |
| 24 | For example , the child who has been taught and has learned to make his babysitter laugh whenever he plays with her can not also hit her over the head with a toy when he is playing with her . |
| 25 | Another thing she could n't step in , and do it over the head with someone who was supposed to be doing on that March . |
| 26 | ‘ Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some beat us with rifles ’ . |
| 27 | Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some kicked us , some pulled and pushed us , some beat us with rifles . |