Example sentences of "with [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | I sat with my head in my hands for a while , then I went over to my desk and took out a small framed photograph of Anne and myself which I always hid before she arrived . |
| 2 | Oh how I have longed sometimes to crouch with my head in my rucksack and give myself a squeeze of self-heating steak and kidney pudding , followed by a quick squeeze of hot custard and delicious spotted dick . |
| 3 | One friend of mine — I had n't seen him in a while , then one day I met him in school with my head covered , and he said : ‘ Yasmin , have you gone religious ? ’ |
| 4 | People see me in a certain way at school , as someone outspoken and good at English ; then they see me with my head covered , and suddenly they seem to be thinking : submissive . |
| 5 | WITH my head back , chest out , palms flattened and arms outstretched into a crucifixion position , I balanced on my toes and leaned forwards into the Atlantic gale . |
| 6 | The boy pointed across the room where I was sitting with my head in my hands , cigarette dangling out of my mouth . |
| 7 | The next morning I sat on the front steps with my head in my hands . |
| 8 | When all had come forward , I motioned with my head and we all marched out the right side of the auditorium through the drapes that hung along the wall . |
| 9 | He describes his other grandmother as ‘ a wee frail woman ’ in a mob cap , smoking a long clay pipe and ‘ stroking my hair as I lay down at her feet with my head in her lap ’ , while her railwayman husband also ‘ had a great liking for me , and when he could spring to a halfpenny or an apple or some nuts for ‘ whiteheaded Benny ’ , he did it , Once he gave me a shining white metal watchguard ’ , a symbol of work efficiency which he wore proudly to school , ‘ swanking ’ with it hung across my chest . ’ |
| 10 | At leat that 's as much as I can remember until the next morning when I woke up with my head in an invisible , sealed gold-fish bowl of pain . |
| 11 | I just sat in the dressing-room with my head in my hands hating myself for what I 'd done . ’ |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I just end up with my head in my hands about some chord changes or something . ’ |
| 14 | I protested , but only weakly ; I was hysterical , and , I suppose , rather excited too : even when he had me down on the floor , jammed in an uncomfortable position with my head stuck between the pedestal of the wash basin and a slimy floor cloth someone had left lying against the wall , I could still do nothing but laugh . |
| 15 | To my eyes it looks like the pattern , though I know with my head that it 's the background . |
| 16 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 17 | I was on my sixth one by 10.30 am , sitting behind a luggage trolley with my head against the wall . |
| 18 | I sat with my head between my legs and looked at the dirt-encrusted toenails of the silent Yugoslavian on my left until-'Jennings ' was called from the next room . |
| 19 | During my attacks , I had to lie face down , with my head over the side of the bed . |
| 20 | I began to feel that there was something wrong with my head , as well as my eyes . |
| 21 | Kneeling , with my head bent over the lavatory , it was some time before I realised this sickness was not a thing I could throw up . |
| 22 | I now had the distinct impression that headvoice had been right all the time , that it was in fact down to me , or rather the old ‘ guilty conscience ’ ( which is well known to be capable of playing up without proper cause ) , playing tricks with my head . |
| 23 | She rocked backwards and forwards with my head in her lap — for I was in tears as well by then — and moaning . |
| 24 | But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street . |
| 25 | Three beer-befuddled construction workers played softball with my head in a backstreet on the mistaken assumption that I was Tom Tunney . |
| 26 | He said , did you expect me to chap with my head ? |
| 27 | Do you expect me to chap with my head ? |
| 28 | The humour , I think , came from the fact that at the time of asking I was lying with my head near the ground and my feet near the ceiling and the man in question had most of his right hand in my mouth , his other hand on a high-power drill and his knee wedged round his own spittoon . |
| 29 | Then I remembered ; today I would walk with my head in the clouds , it seemed . |
| 30 | As the shallow tent of evening falls upon us , and black taxis queue like hearses at Marble Arch , I lift my knees to the platform , glide down the Westway with my head full of phlegm and board that plane to Los Angeles . |