Example sentences of "by [verb] [pron] head [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm sorry if I pitched it strong , but you 'll never get anywhere in business by sticking your head in the sand . |
| 2 | Once in the set-up position , you will need to check your alignment by rotating your head towards the target . |
| 3 | She breaks through it by using her head like a pneumatic drill , pressing her hard sharp jaws on to the soil and vibrating it by trembling her wing muscles . |
| 4 | Shill 's suggestion that his wife committed suicide was dashed by the evidence of Dr Norris , who insisted that most of the head injuries would have been impossible to achieve by someone attempting suicide and that , in the annals of crime , he had yet to hear of a case where a person attempted suicide by bashing his head with a flat iron . |
| 5 | Male model Hay , 22 , only escaped death by moving his head at the critical moment . |
| 6 | He would silence noise by poking his head down the first step and yelling threats of appalling punishment . |
| 7 | The worker then reduces it to its proper thinness by putting its head in the cells on either side of the wall and shaving off layers from the face of it . |