Example sentences of "[conj] his head " in BNC.
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| 1 | The captain , Phil Carrick , last month put the cat among the pigeons , or his head upon the block ( depending upon each Yorkshireman 's point of view on his county 's cricket , without which no Tyke is properly dressed ) by writing a letter , with his players ' support , in which he advocated the abandonment of the holy writ , the birth qualification . |
| 2 | A man can cope with having a straggly beard or his head being bald , but his definition of himself as male belongs primarily to his sexual functioning . |
| 3 | Other things we can observe carefully , and then draw , such as a child , how his limbs grow , or his head , to look and see where for instance his eyes come in relation to the top of his head and the bottom of his chin . |
| 4 | Most meditatively — remember Drury Lane , he murmured , and , his favourite whip and spur , ‘ Attack , boy , attack ! ’ — so meditatively that no one could fail to be impressed by the inner preoccupation of the handsome gentleman in Hessian boots who ruminated across the turf , he paced a slow , measured entrance to the very central point of the circle without once raising his gaze from the earth or his head from the cusp of a hand which supported its pensive load . |
| 5 | Lucie did not raise his voice or his head . |
| 6 | All except his head was dead . |
| 7 | Ingram was in no condition to knock on anything , although his head did n't know that as he leaned forward against the thick bottle glass . |
| 8 | Although his head and body are bent towards her in paternal concern , their tension indicates that he wants to be elsewhere ; away from hysterical females , generally , and , in particular , at his lunchdate with the Chinese antique dealer who has hinted over the telephone that he has some particularly fine pieces of Ban Chieng that the National Museum will never see hidden away in his back room . |
| 9 | Although his head was throbbing almost intolerably , he 'd felt sober enough to ring for breakfast in his room , and had done his best to contemplate the ‘ Full English ’ he 'd so foolishly ordered for 7 a.m . |
| 10 | They went for him then , Alexander and Donald McLaggan , the Duke 's two sons , dragged him from his father 's side so that his head bounced on the steps , lifted him bleeding , like foresters keeping a dying deer clear of the hounds , and started to carry him down to the river ‘ just to cool him off ’ but Cameron ran and gripped Donald 's shoulder and shouted , ‘ If you injure an officer it is treason on top of sedition , ’ so they carried him back and laid him carefully at his father 's feet . |
| 11 | Wexford took hold of his jacket roughly , pushing him so that his head jerked up . |
| 12 | He knew , too , that his head had been aching and that his mind was capable of playing tricks upon him . |
| 13 | Marcus pulled Pat up by the shoulders , pulling him up so that his head was higher , and Moxie thrust the pillow in behind him . |
| 14 | Squinting again along the left of the nose I suddenly realised that his head had become completely transparent ! |
| 15 | It seemed to D'Arcy that his head had only just hit the cushion on the settee in Victor 's flat when he was shaken awake . |
| 16 | And it is rumoured that his head is like an enormous crocodile 's head , with rows and rows and rows of sharp pointed teeth . |
| 17 | He often came out as a bit of a bighead and , accused of this at the time , took a tape-measure and agreed that his head had indeed expanded by one-eighth of an inch since leaving Wales . |
| 18 | So hard that his head felt struck . |
| 19 | He crouched down so that his head was level with the boy 's face , and smiled reassuringly . |
| 20 | ‘ You deduce this on the grounds that his head and body ended up there ? ’ |
| 21 | Rincewind trailed behind , whimpering at intervals and checking to see that his head was still there . |
| 22 | Sometimes when it got worn like that it would twine round the other soldier so that his head could be pulled off . |
| 23 | The turbulence was such that his head hit the ceiling and his headset came off and fell to the floor . |
| 24 | Secondly , why did Sir Ralph just lie there and allow his throat to be cut so savagely that his head was almost hacked from his body ? |
| 25 | The political punter , though , bets more with his heart than his head . |
| 26 | Fiver gazed back at him with eyes that , like a fly 's , seemed larger than his head . |
| 27 | This may seem irrelevant to Hamlet taking revenge ; but this scene ( Act IV , Scene V ) shows the contrast between Hamlet , who thinks deeply about actions and their consequences ; and Laertes , the man of action , who does not think at all about the consequences of what he does , being driven by his heart rather than his head . |
| 28 | Once his head began to fall onto his chest but he jerked it up again . |
| 29 | Sir Christopher Wren sits behind his desk , large as life and at least as natural , until a cloth is draped over the leather bound book concealing the projector , and his head is revealed as a white splodge which takes 80 hours of modelling . |
| 30 | Philip , his legs tired with standing and his head throbbing , slid down on the floor . |