Example sentences of "turned [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | I turned my head in his direction . |
| 2 | At once I turned my head to the source of the light . |
| 3 | In this way , I amused myself for some minutes until I turned my head a fraction and discovered that the old lady was watching me . |
| 4 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 5 | When at last I broke through the lip and parachuted into the void beyond I turned my head and looked behind . |
| 6 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 7 | ‘ I had his album ‘ Live At The Regal ’ which completely turned my head . |
| 8 | I turned my head away then , because Mum always said it was n't decent to watch people undress . |
| 9 | And when I turned my head to take a parting glance at the tug which had just left us anchored outside the bar , I saw the straight line of the flat shore joined to the stable sea , edge to edge , with a perfect and unmarked closeness , in one levelled floor half brown , half blue under the enormous dome of the sky ( 3 ) . |
| 10 | The only example of an agentive verb with a human subject is " I turned my head " ( 3 ) . |
| 11 | I turned my head . |
| 12 | I turned my head and , partially blinded by my chaos of hair , saw Leon was kneeling naked at my back . |
| 13 | I turned my head and saw a huge cat , three times larger than one of our cows . |
| 14 | But the time I done in Holloway really turned my head . |
| 15 | They way he just took my hair in one hand , while we were standing looking up at that God-awful window in the great hall , and turned my head to him , and pulled me close ; tongue down my throat before I knew what was happening , and there was something adolescent and desperate beneath all that working-class directness , but Jesus , I felt wanted … |
| 16 | I turned my head slightly towards him . |
| 17 | I turned my head . |
| 18 | Then I realized most of the visitors and all the residents were watching me and I turned my head from side to side to see why I was getting that uncomfortable my-flies-must-be-open feeling . |
| 19 | I turned my head slowly and now my throat started to hurt . |
| 20 | Clark said there 's a man aiming at you and I turned my head away . |
| 21 | I would enjoy creeping up upon someone and freezing when they turned their head . |
| 22 | That way , every time she turned her head to address one section of the audience , the rest of them would have something to be surprised about . |
| 23 | Frau Nordern turned her head . |
| 24 | She passed by the lifeguard , and after she had gone some three or four steps past him she turned her head , smiled , and waved to him . |
| 25 | She turned her head in the direction of the alto : a young woman with light hair and the face of an angel . |
| 26 | She felt sorry for him once more ; she felt for him the compassion of an older sister , and at that point she did something quite unpremeditated : as she kept on walking , she turned her head back towards him , smiled and lifted her right arm out in the air , easily , flowingly , as if she were tossing a brightly coloured ball . |
| 27 | She had a lump in her throat and an enormous yearning to say something beautiful to her father , something that could not be expressed by words , and so without quite knowing how it happened she suddenly turned her head and with a smile tossed out her arm in the air , easily , flowing , as if to see each other many more times . |
| 28 | as if something had just occurred to her , Bella turned her head to look at Marie : ‘ Must be a bit of a shock to you an ’ all . |
| 29 | Alice turned her head . |
| 30 | They jangled when she moved and brushed her creamy shoulders each time she turned her head . |