Example sentences of "[pron] head to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At once I turned my head to the source of the light . |
| 2 | Electric front windows , front seat height variation leaving three fingers above my head to the manual glass sunroof , power steering on 1.5 models and good control layout complete the picture . |
| 3 | Modern Boy , you see , also printed fiction and the Krooms stalk through my head to this day . |
| 4 | Deciding that attack was the best form of defence , I knelt beside him and lowering my head to within inches of his , said , ‘ Next time , It 'll be the bread knife . ’ |
| 5 | He spoke over my head to the scullery door , where Ewen was refilling the kettle . |
| 6 | As he said : ‘ If I 'm deciding on whom I want to live with for fifty years — well , that 's the last decision I want my head to be ruled by my heart . ’ |
| 7 | I grip my spoon tight and lower my head to my meal . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 9 | Instead I put my head to one side so that it rested against the cold glass of the window , closed my eyes and let my mouth hang open a little . |
| 10 | 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 … |
| 11 | He said : ‘ If I 'm deciding whom I want to live with for 50 years — well , that 's the last decision in which I would want my head to be entirely ruled by my heart ’ . |
| 12 | Putting my head to the wall , I ooze tears of fury . |
| 13 | I get out , my head to the side in foolish frustration . |
| 14 | I incline my head To its |
| 15 | Putting one foot after the other in a style I have developed during cross-country runs organized by Cranborne School , I allowed my head to sort of loll forward and my legs to patter after it , leaving the middle bit of me completely free for inflation and deflation . |
| 16 | She cocked her head to one side after she had posed the question . |
| 17 | Gwen Bunker looked from one man to the other , cocking her head to one side as she appraised the merchandise . |
| 18 | Marjorie cocked her head to one side and smiled with a brightness she did n't feel . |
| 19 | When he had finished the third page she put her head to one side and said in her cross-but-trying-to-be-helpful voice , ‘ I like the bit about Donald . ’ |
| 20 | She had detoured through the town 's central square on the way home and had sat down on a bench , raising her head to the trees . |
| 21 | Lee turned her head to the right to look down at him . |
| 22 | Every time Shirley was on the telly thereafter , I would notice how she put her head to one side and agreed absolutely with the questioner ‘ except did n't he think that … ’ . |
| 23 | And I 'd like to bet there 's quite a few of the blokes down there ’ — she jerked her head to the side — ‘ look upon this war as a godsend because it 's given them a legitimate excuse to leave their shanties . |
| 24 | A few miles away is the ancient town of Lewes with its imposing Norman Castle and Anne of Cleves House ( the former home of one wife who did n't lose her head to Henry VIII ) . |
| 25 | Languidly she turned her head to the west-facing windows , staring out at the neighbouring mountain high above the hill upon which Saracen was built . |
| 26 | Buzz turned her head to the left , where the portrait of the three sisters hung . |
| 27 | Hearing a knock , Miranda turned her head to the door as the housekeeper entered ; she carried a Victorian brass birdcage , in which was a dove . |
| 28 | He held a marble lighter towards her and said as she lowered her head to the flame , ‘ Filthy , is n't it ? ’ nodding towards the rain at the window . |
| 29 | Ducking her head to left and right Delia Sutherland studied the woodland as she drove through Sleet : softwood plantations bordered by a line of beech . |
| 30 | The veil came from her head to her feet ; she could see out through it , but we could not see her face . |