Example sentences of "above her head [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not have sufficient strength to take stance on the gaunt bare branch above her head nor had she touched the remnant of meat that had been left the day before as her food and which now lay on the ground at her side . |
| 2 | But she lifted the grenade above her head and took aim . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | She swung her arms above her head and cracked her hand on a low beam . |
| 5 | Lucinda held the lighter above her head and flicked it again . |
| 6 | The ‘ trees ’ put her in mind of the Bridge : nests of translucent pink roots which burst from the powdery soil and curved upwards into single trunks which soared above her head and fanned out again into an inverted cone of branches . |