Example sentences of "around the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years , a good many bouncers have been sent down and several batsmen have been injured , especially around the head ; this is because , unlike most of his colleagues , his bouncers usually go through at head height rather than above it and so are particularly awkward . |
| 2 | Mr Paul Newman , 36 , was beaten around the head with the hammer and left to die in a country lane in Eggington , near Leighton Buzzard , Beds , having gone there to discuss pension plans with a ‘ prospective client ’ . |
| 3 | It was a ‘ maniacal ’ beating around the head with a claw hammer . |
| 4 | The policeman who had kicked me in the groin began to slap Russell around the head . |
| 5 | Among the various species , such specialized glands have been found in almost all anatomical locations including the anus , sex organs , wrists , ankles , chest , under their leg articulation , upon their shoulders and back and in a variety of places around the head , face and ears . |
| 6 | Even if I DID turn both taps fully on and DID leave the plug out I would not allow the bath to get anywhere near overflowing because my Mum would beat me around the head with the back-scrubber . |
| 7 | It helps if one of the larger newspapers makes the main part around the head . |
| 8 | Do n't worry folks , I knew what to do — smear some butter around the head and neck . |
| 9 | Other symptoms include chest pain ( commonly left-sided , dull or aching , and unrelated to the degree of physical exertion ; genuine heart pains are usually central , cramp-like , and brought on by exercise ) , headaches ( particularly ‘ tension headache ’ — a band-like pain around the head and back of the neck which begins a few seconds after waking and lasts all day , often accompanied by feelings of depression or despair ) , dizziness or light-headedness ( which comes on when you are sitting still and never heralds a full-blown faint ) , tingling in the fingers or around the mouth ( signifying panic-induced overbreathing ) , and a heightened awareness of bodily processes ( such as blood rushing through your ears , a rumbling tummy , or the thumping of your heart inside your chest ) . |
| 10 | From here you can look down into Oxendale and across to Crinkle Crags and Bowfell , which leads the eye around the head of Langdale . |
| 11 | She acknowledged that she had a bad temper but recently she had felt so angry that she had hit the younger child repeatedly around the head and shoulders , bruising him . |
| 12 | With Southampton trailing 2-1 and desperate for an equaliser , he grabbed the fan around the head and tried to drag him from the pitch . |
| 13 | From here continue along the road , again around the head of the valley , to a large purple house called Rigg Beck ( 0.75 mile ) . |
| 14 | The spines are situated on the dorsal fin and around the head and it is all too easy to step on them by mistake . |
| 15 | The road , now the A.838 , crosses the water by a modern bridge making unnecessary the long detour around the head of the Kyle . |
| 16 | A better hood , on this type of bag anyway , will be shaped to avoid the extra bulk and give a close fit around the head . |
| 17 | Hood : a good fitting cowl-shaped hood with a drawcord that pulls it in well , giving a snug fit around the head . |
| 18 | Hood : the hood is big but closes down well when the drawcord is pulled in to give a comfortable fit around the head . |
| 19 | ‘ Let's stop batting one another around the head and get on with good government , ’ he said . |
| 20 | As is widely known , Jack Lang is a staunch supporter of President Mitterrand , an important factor in the current protective government formed by Pierre Bérégovoy around the head of State . |
| 21 | With her mind on Jasper , what he was doing , with whom , she slept fitfully , rose many hours before anyone else was likely to , cleared the room of the little that was in it , fetched up Philip 's trestles and the paints and the rollers , rubbed over ceiling and walls with a duster tied around the head of a broom , swept off the floor the resulting films of dust . |
| 22 | Hit 'em around the head a bit . |
| 23 | Ann 's boyfriend hits Tommy around the head with a bamboo cane spiked with nails . |
| 24 | Their electric sensors , known as ampullae of Lorenzini , are arranged around the head . |
| 25 | My eyes skip the busy road that sweeps around the head of the port and is divided by a great oval flowerbed , garishly planted . |
| 26 | Joseph could see tufts of grizzled hair protruding from beneath the sweat-soaked turban wrapped around the head of his aged coolie and he did n't have the heart to order him to gallop . |
| 27 | An image flew into her head of Dorothy as some Wagnerian virago ; it was not entirely inappropriate — there had been a whiff of the Valkyrie about her mother , with her alternating hairstyles of frayed bun or plait wound around the head and tendency to long brown shapeless garments . |
| 28 | As we saw earlier , ITN coverage showed an incident in which one miner took a flying kick at a policeman who was beating a fellow-picket around the head . |
| 29 | I have a ringing in my ears like I 've been smacked around the head . |
| 30 | Manager Ian Branfoot said : ‘ David got a fan around the head and perhaps he was a little over-enthusiastic . |