Example sentences of "[vb -s] its head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , with the massive harvests of the 1980s , when the superabundant corn bows its head along the banks of our chastened , canalized rivers , many of those who set out to tame the flood have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams . |
| 2 | Today the business holds its head high and is a world leader in its specialized fields . |
| 3 | That is the first appearance of the dog , a delicate insertion ; afterwards , Emma holds its head and kisses it ( as Gustave had done to Nero/Thabor ) : the dog has a melancholy expression , and she talks to it as if to someone in need of consolation . |
| 4 | The government turns its head aside from government support — apart from words — and says that it is either the employers ' responsibility or the employees ' … |
| 5 | Then the trousered rear legs begin to edge step by step to the left , and very slowly and deliberately the animal turns its head . |
| 6 | It rears its head in Eastern Europe , in North America and in Western Europe . |
| 7 | On page 51 of this issue , Ponman and Bertram report a discovery which suggests that the presence of dark matter in yet another context — small groups of galaxies — so that the dark-matter problem rears its head again . |
| 8 | Once again , the fees issue rears its head . |
| 9 | But , once the males mature sexually , the primeval antagonism between fathers and sons , egoism and altruism , once again rears its head . |
| 10 | Perhaps it is more courageous to break a promise if it means salvaging the economy , especially — and here cynicism rears its head too — if you stack the odds in favour of a pre-election tax give-away . |
| 11 | A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head . |
| 12 | In France it is le cube Hongois , in Germany der Zauberwurfel , which I suppose means magic cube , at a quick connection with Mozart , ( Culture sometimes raises its head in this column . ) |
| 13 | And here 's where the question of spec lists raises its head . |
| 14 | This means first of all that prisons compete with other government responsibilities for extremely precious resources and secondly that the question of ‘ lesseligibility ’ inevitably raises its head . |
| 15 | Before each ‘ diner ’ is a sumptuous silver and crystal place setting ( value 20 GCs per setting ) , which is n't quite in reach , even if the Skeleton plunges its head forward . |
| 16 | Jane withdrew , not her presence , but her mind , as a tortoise withdraws its head . |
| 17 | This masterpiece lacks its head ; but if we look from the hawk-priestess to some marble heads of the later sixth century we see the beginning and end of the tradition in which it must have been made . |
| 18 | When the slow-moving potto is approached by an enemy , it curls up into a tight ball , clings on to its branch and lowers its head between its legs so that the back of its spiky neck is thrust towards the predator . |
| 19 | The weaving horse not only swings its head and neck , but also the front end of its body from side to side . |
| 20 | If it scents its prey , it swings its head from side to side to determine the direction from which the smell is coming . |
| 21 | This keeps its head free so that it can thrust it deep between the branches of the coral and select a particularly toothsome piece . |
| 22 | Sometimes the horse stretches out its neck at the horse it is trying to warn off and tosses its head up and down at it in a threatening manner . |
| 23 | To indicate acceptance , the lower snail bends its head backwards . |
| 24 | There is always something to look forward to like the unworldly blue flowers of Ceanothus thyrsiflorus and the passion flower which blooms its head off all year . |
| 25 | On the other hand , careful observation of living creatures had led to the solution of some problems , such as how the toucan tucks its head under its wing to sleep — depicted in E. T. Bennett 's book on the London Zoo ( 1831–2 ) . |
| 26 | The horse puts its head high in the air , muzzle uppermost , and curls back the upper lip and sniffs long and noisily through its squashed nostrils . |
| 27 | Before the fungus kills the fly , it attacks its nervous system , changing its behaviour so that it climbs to the top of the plant , puts its head down to attach its proboscis to the leaf , and sticks its abdomen up into the air , ready for the passing breezes to take the spores away when they are released . |
| 28 | We easily recognise the aggressive action of a horse that snakes its head towards a newcomer , puts its ears back , pulls up its nostrils , and raises one leg ready to lash out at the other horse . |
| 29 | The impression is reinforced by political outrage at the high pay and perks of the international aid agencies ( Senator Leahy swears that the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development , one of the most lavish , will not get a penny as long as Jacques Attali remains its head ) . |
| 30 | an inscription on the Monument which was not finally removed until 1831 imputed the blame for the Great Fire of London ( 1666 ) to treacherous Roman Catholics , and Pope indignantly alludes to it in the third of his Moral Essays ( ll. 339–40 ) : ‘ Where London 's column , pointing at the skies , / Like a tall bully , lifts its head and lies . ’ |