Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | I lowered my head quickly , as if to acknowledge the truth spoken by the old woman Khadija when she heard of my decision to travel to London . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh God , ’ I moaned , and lowered my head to the cool steel pipe of the bridge rail . |
| 3 | With a mounting feeling of dread , I went to a chair at the far end of the table from Quigley and lowered my head in the gloom . |
| 4 | Up yours , I thought and got my head down to extract everything I could . |
| 5 | I felt the world beginning to drift into the distance again , but I knew what was happening this time and got my head down quickly . |
| 6 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 7 | And once I nearly got my head flattened , cos I sent up the wrong thing and bang he sent it down and I just got my head out of there in time . |
| 8 | ‘ In fact , I did n't even know McCallen had n't started for I just got my head down and went for it from the fall of the flag . |
| 9 | The first time in Ireland where I nearly got my head blown off . ’ |
| 10 | How come I got my head his head was here |
| 11 | ‘ Uh , uh , ’ I wagged my head from side to side . |
| 12 | Tiredness , the excitement of the journey and of sitting , so late , at a pavement café such as I had seen only in films ( these agreeable continental institutions had not yet spread to London , far less pre-Festival Edinburgh ) , as well as the unaccustomed intake of alcohol , all made my head reel . |
| 13 | It made my head swim , so that I can remember , after that , only hopeless confusion : Nonni coming in and crying , Richard yelling at her to get out and mind her own business , and behind it all , poor Tom sobbing and sobbing . |
| 14 | I really liked it , the way she moved my head and brushed her fingers through my hair . |
| 15 | I jerked my head . |
| 16 | I jerked my head in the direction of the mountain above us . |
| 17 | I jerked my head towards the stairs , having already clocked the sign saying Intensive Care 4th Floor , and Les Girls followed me without breaking step . |
| 18 | He stroked my head and said as he was about to go , ‘ Be a good girl Katie , you 've got a good Dad under the circumstances . ’ |
| 19 | He took my permission for granted , and I bent my head . |
| 20 | I bent my head a bit , look , you can see on the picture , but I could n't stop grinning . |
| 21 | The day had got off to a bad start as it was ( late for work , lost the shop key , spilt a load of fish-food all over the floor and then cracked my head on a shelf while clearing it up ) . |
| 22 | He 'd changed my name and changed my head before he tired of me . |
| 23 | I bumped my head on the door moving your mattress through the laundry , ’ said Tom . |
| 24 | I bumped my head , that 's all . |
| 25 | She had been a mother of sons only and I think now that she would have liked me to call her mother ; but then , such an idea never entered my head . |
| 26 | I never wanted to do anything , it never entered my head to do anything else . |
| 27 | Well i it , it certainly never entered my head to do anything else and although several other things were suggested er I never er I never even considered them . |
| 28 | It simplified things … but the thought never even entered my head , that I could use this as a way of altering the course . |
| 29 | ‘ Rape , darling , ’ he sneered , ‘ never entered my head . ’ |
| 30 | The thought never entered my head ! ’ |