Example sentences of "turn [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the most beautiful is probably that of Odette in the Act II pas de deux of Swan Lake when , overcoming her fear at being captured , she turns her head and deliberately looks into Siegfried 's eyes . |
| 2 | She turns her head away . |
| 3 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 4 | Then the trousered rear legs begin to edge step by step to the left , and very slowly and deliberately the animal turns its head . |
| 5 | I could not have turned my head nor moved my hands from where they hung on the straps of the rucksack . |
| 6 | He had moved to kiss my mouth , but I had turned my head and he had kissed my cheek . |
| 7 | He 's just turned my head , that 's all , and I intend to turn it right back again . |
| 8 | And he 's he 's turned over this and just gon na slap one on me and I 've turned my head and gone like that and he 's fucking caught me right on the fucking lips ! |
| 9 | His mother , I noticed , had turned her head away . |
| 10 | She had turned her head aside and flung her hands over her face ; she did not make the outcry he had expected . |
| 11 | Buzz turned her head to the left , where the portrait of the three sisters hung . |
| 12 | Since the evening of the reception at the governor 's palais when she had turned her head to find him looking at her , the memory of the naked desire she had seen in Jacques Devraux 's eyes had smouldered in her mind . |
| 13 | She 'd turned her head away . |
| 14 | By that time he 'd turned her head so much with tales of the big city and the life they could have there , she 'd have followed him anywhere . |
| 15 | He could see that Midge had turned her head and was looking at him . |
| 16 | She in turn feels she has painted best when ‘ the ’ dog appears as though it has turned its head to the viewer and is gazing back ’ . |
| 17 | Midnight had turned his head . |
| 18 | He had turned his head back to the ocean . |
| 19 | Pity he 's turned his head away . |
| 20 | Andrew had turned his head , taking another look at his protégée . |
| 21 | Sanchez had n't turned his head . |
| 22 | The governor had moved his guests back from the illuminated pedestal to show the line and glazing of the Ming vase to its best advantage , and because he had turned his head in their direction to explain a point , he did n't see the gibbon streak across the marble floor on all fours . |
| 23 | And then he had turned his head and seen that Grainne was watching him , and a sudden , surprised joy unfolded within his heart , for there was such desire in her eyes that lights exploded inside his head , and he wanted to stand still and savour the moment . |
| 24 | He has turned his head away , she is glad , she does not want his mocking face listening . |
| 25 | Activity in the two days following Cedric Downes 's release had hardly afforded a model of investigative collaboration , with Morse sleeping through until the late afternoon of the Sunday , then idling away most of the Monday in his office , moodily perusing the documents in the case ; and with Lewis doing the converse , making what he felt had been a fairly significant contribution to the case on the Sunday afternoon , and then spending the whole of the Monday abed , where he had lain dead to the wideawake world , and where , even when Mrs Lewis had gently rocked his shoulder at 6.30 p.m. and quietly breathed the prospect of egg and chips into his ear , he had turned his head over into the pillow and blissfully resumed his slumbers . |
| 26 | He would not even have turned his head for anyone else , but in the presence of his enemy , now truly and irrevocably his , no longer merely the legacy of his father 's wrongs , he stiffened his back and reared his head . |
| 27 | ‘ Are you sure that Yankee sun has n't turned your head . ’ |
| 28 | It 's all the worry you 've had , it 's turned your head . ’ |
| 29 | I remember , after one lesson , having a sensation of a collar being around my neck which prevented me from turning my head ( similar to the kind people have to wear after painful neck injuries ) . |
| 30 | But for me it 's a bit like a tennis match — I get tired of turning my head from side to side listening to you . ’ |