Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [prep] [pos pn] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , there 's one where two girls watch their brothers playing football and one 's got a bucket on his head . |
| 2 | The sight of any other teacher dripping with water and with a bucket over her head would have been an occasion for great mirth among the pupils , but absolutely nothing could diminish Miss Hardbroom 's power . |
| 3 | If you 're not beautiful in our image , then put a bucket over your head , or hide at home if you 're too fat ; we do n't want to see you . |
| 4 | I was a bit off my head , do n't worry about it ! |
| 5 | if I may give you a word of advice , you may think it 's rude , but when Mr is asking questions try not to turn down towards him , if you try and face across the jury , that 's what carries the voice if you 're looking at them , if you turn to your left , a bit of your head goes down a bit , it 's only natural , you 're not as used to courts as Mr is , er , he , he , your , it , your voice smothers , it 's not a question of shouting it 's just looking in the right direction , yes Mr go on |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm afraid all this clever talk is a bit over their heads . |
| 7 | It was brown , as far as Hoomey could see , and its ribs stuck out like his own , and its great projecting hip-bones were on a level with his head , sticking out like girders as if to hold the gaunt body together . |
| 8 | Occasionally they walk upright along a branch , grasping it with their toes but always holding on to a branch above their heads with their hands . |
| 9 | The badger peered around and noticed Admiral King-Fisher sitting on a branch above his head . |
| 10 | Do you want a cushion for your head ? |
| 11 | ‘ Have a cushion behind your head , ’ said Dimity , when the rector had lowered himself into an armchair . |
| 12 | Instead , she covered him with a blanket and put a cushion behind his head and blew out both lamp and candle . |
| 13 | He knew it was a question of keeping a direction in your head , like a compass needle . |
| 14 | To our colleague from London , let me say I happen to be a boilermaker , not because I 'm a dinosaur with me head in the past , but because that happens to be the occupation that I follow and that 's what I am . |
| 15 | The best of these was changing the punctuation in a sentence in your head , seeing how you might shift its meaning by putting a comma in different places . |
| 16 | It really does sometimes feel like someone 's playing a trick on my head . |
| 17 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 18 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 19 | Owen had closed in behind him and flung a cloak over his head and shoulders , and twisted the skirts of it tight round his body and arms . |
| 20 | You 've got a funny thing on you , you 've got a think on your head , Rocket 's got a thing on his ear . |
| 21 | His mother Kathleen told an industrial tribunal : ‘ The postmen put a sack over his head and threatened to post him to Hull . |
| 22 | As for you , I could n't care less if you walked out on to that stage with a sack over your head . ’ |
| 23 | She had pulled a stocking over her head and threatened a cashier with a toy cowboy gun . |
| 24 | I 'm hardly the type to rob a bank with a sawn-off shotgun and a stocking over my head — I 'd more likely do it using a computer or something . |
| 25 | Like Gordon and Henry Lawrence before him , Lugard was revered as a soldier-saint ; like them there was a glory about his head which cast its light on all he did . |
| 26 | I 've practically got a computer inside my head . |
| 27 | Then she asked what had happened to Alec , because nobody had told her , and I just looked at a spot about a foot above her head and let Frank do the dirty work . |
| 28 | The first stage of the scaffolding was little more than a foot above his head . |
| 29 | On the traditional visit to American aircraft carrier in the harbour , reported Paris-Match : ‘ With a toss of her head that sent her ponytail flying , the Midway was engulfed in a streak of lightning from thousands of flashbulbs and cries of admiration . ’ |
| 30 | The last piece of information was given with a toss of her head . |