Example sentences of "[adv prt] [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | For no apparent reason it was hanging on my head like lank seaweed ; I could n't make it puff out in a way that hid my ears properly . |
| 2 | As he lay , with my arms wrapped around his body , I brought down my head hard on his face , and drew a lot of blood from him . |
| 3 | lay down my head to sleep , I pray … |
| 4 | Blazer put down his head and nuzzled at her coat pocket . |
| 5 | He was embarrassed , she knew , because she was sitting at old Eddy Moulton 's desk , upon the top of which poor old Eddy had so recently laid down his head and died . |
| 6 | Mr McGregor , a father of three , from Linthorpe , Middlesbrough , has reduced function in his arms , numbness from the neck down and a ten-inch scar down his head as a result of the attack . |
| 7 | His ears go down his head then ? |
| 8 | When it sucked in his head he could n't scream anymore . |
| 9 | Tom Someone , hang down your head and cry . |
| 10 | Hepzibah had cooked a cake with white icing and twelve candles and Mister Johnny made her a crown of wild flowers to put on her head . |
| 11 | I could see her proudly carrying on her head an amphora to a well and disdaining all admirers . |
| 12 | A monster pike measuring about 4ft and weighing over 30lb has had a £460 bounty put on its head after chomping its way through almost half the stock of waterfowl and fish in the boating lake at Alexandra Palace , North London . |
| 13 | But no , this ai n't Alvin Stardust , and anyone who tries to lump me with these people gets the wrath of Harley straight on their head . ’ |
| 14 | A fly was buzzing over my head ad kept settling on my face . |
| 15 | Their mother ( i.e. Surjeet 's mother-in-law ) kept asking me to wear it over my head . |
| 16 | Big stars and a Father Christmas and reindeer and it 's all so bright just hanging over my head and stretching all down the road like a tunnel of hot colour all hanging in the sky so beautiful and magic . |
| 17 | If he is n't , it does n't matter what he knows and he can go over my head any day he likes and make the Assistant Commissioner read him the whole report if he wants to . |
| 18 | I was sandwiched between two big men who joked over my head about how squashed they all were . |
| 19 | The bullet goes flying over my head and lands in the field behind me . |
| 20 | I do n't want it poured over my head from a bucket in a comic that only appeals to the most basic and obvious , nor do I want to read the photo-copied scribblings of an undergrown fifth-former . |
| 21 | My own solution is to wear a one-piece smock that fits over my head . |
| 22 | A lovely girl ran out of a house with an umbrella and held it over my head . |
| 23 | When I left she picked up my scarf and tied it over my head . |
| 24 | It 's been hanging over my head like the sword of Damocles . |
| 25 | Overhead rolled the girdered cranes capable of carrying weights of more than two hundred tons … one passed over my head … |
| 26 | I had mixed feelings then because the last time one had been that close on the ground was in 1940 during the Battle when one passed over my head at Allington , crashing a few hundred yards away . |
| 27 | In newspapers I 've been called bland and ‘ smoothy-chops ’ so often that it almost goes over my head now , and people go on about my baggy eyes as if I made them that way myself — which I suppose I did , in a way . |
| 28 | ‘ IT RAN OVER MY HEAD ! ’ |
| 29 | At the moment he 's under control , but I do n't want to give him time to try going over my head . ’ |
| 30 | She looked over my head and smiled . |