Example sentences of "over [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | I pull my battledress jacket over my head in a forlorn attempt to escape from the tiny tormentors ; sleep is impossible . |
| 2 | I have never worn Chunni over my head so I just wore it round my neck . |
| 3 | ’ , ‘ Comfortable woman needed , good with children … ’ , when the thought came to me that , with a roof over my head and just about enough money to live on , there was no real need for me to work at all . |
| 4 | Someone threw a beer bottle at me , and hit a guy who was behind me about to pour a pint over my head . |
| 5 | I put my arms over my head and pieces of glass started to rain down on me . |
| 6 | I ca n't deny a lot of it was way over my head . ’ |
| 7 | I clamber on and he puts his great black dress over my head . |
| 8 | With the catapults they use to keep birds from the crops , they launch a couple of parting stones far over my head . |
| 9 | of breath over my head ; |
| 10 | I was literally breaking things over my head . |
| 11 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 12 | Why , Mummy , you know what you always say when I put on my red mack with the hood over my head ! |
| 13 | I remember putting the door mat over my head , as the engine mechanism of the bomb stopped right over our house . |
| 14 | Thanks to her I still had a roof over my head , but this economic patronage subtly altered relations between us in a way that did nothing to improve my self-respect . |
| 15 | We huddled with the Germans , and I kept my jacket hood over my head and we waited till the courier had pushed her way through . |
| 16 | I closed the curtains , went to bed , pulled the blanket high over my head and slept peacefully until I heard through layers of consciousness that unforgettable sound , the voice of the wind . |
| 17 | ‘ I had a plastic bag over my head . |
| 18 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality . |
| 19 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 20 | But now I was up in the air , and what with the clouds , I lost all my orientation Where the clouds parted , I could see the whole tube , land all around me , and it seemed to go up like a tower , so the town and the factory belt and the parks were hanging from the walls over my head , they were all going to crash down on me , and the city on top of them . |
| 21 | I would like to have told them both that on that occasion the crack had sailed over my head . |
| 22 | Sarah resented me , even my place at the head of the table , and gave orders to the servants over my head . |
| 23 | I started the motor and rolled out into the highway , and as I slipped the gear lever into position a round red glow appeared in the mirror over my head . |
| 24 | I pulled the sheet over my head and tried not to piece their words into sentences I would not want to hear . |
| 25 | ‘ I ca n't remember … something was put over my head and eyes and I could not see … ’ |
| 26 | I had run to my room , my bed , pulled a pillow over my head . |
| 27 | When the island was about a hundred metres over my head , they let down a seat on a chain . |
| 28 | ROS : ( Cracking , high ) — over my step over my head body ! — I tell you it 's all stopping to a death , it 's boding to a depth , stepping to a head , it 's all heading to a dead stop |
| 29 | In seconds I 'm over my head in stinking nest , my feet still not touching the bottom . |
| 30 | As she pulled the dress over my head she said that she thought it would still fit her , that she could see the hole at the neckline where my grandmother had pinned a pearl brooch as something old , that the classic line never dated . |