Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ordinary experience seems to indicate that brain position determines experience content : where my head is ( in space and in time ) is the most important determinant of the content of my consciousness . |
| 2 | I 'm beginning to get very confused about exactly where my head stops and the rest of the world starts . |
| 3 | If there 's a riot going on — whether in the street or their heads that particular day — they 'll hack out brutal cyber-groove assaults like ‘ The Punisher ’ or , erm , ‘ Riot ’ . |
| 4 | All through the week they gathered waiting for someone to pop his or her head round the entrance and shout that there was an audition , and they were off like a shot , their audition clothes naturally packed in a case by their table . |
| 5 | ‘ The hammer ’ , Hortensia said , ‘ is actually a ruddy great cannon-ball on the end of a long bit of wire , and the thrower whisks it round and round his or her head faster and faster and then lets it go . |
| 6 | These include goals and targets agreed by each expert with his or her head of department which the expert will be required to attain over the coming year . |
| 7 | The moment when it enters his or her head , that X was the one who did it , can thus be concealed and brought out only at the very end of the story . |
| 8 | There was something odd in the way Faye was looking … no , peering … at those pictures , shifting the book or her head as if she had to see past some obstruction to get a good look . |
| 9 | On the other hand , if the right to refuse to transfer does not entail the right to remain for the transferor , perhaps the employee 's right to refuse on the sale of a business is nearly illusory , and he or she is in reality in no better position than the worker who sees the employing company bought over his or her head . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Lucie did not raise his voice or his head . |
| 15 | And you have n't got that twiddly bit any more where your head used to go . |
| 16 | And excellent sight is most important if your world is in the air or your head is more than a few feet above the ground . |
| 17 | I can only suggest that the feathers you had gained for your hat , or your head , during your 10 months in America , should be collected then stuck up your tochas . |
| 18 | Collecting sounds from recordings or your head and asking yourself if they 're warm or bright , distorted or not and what sort of delay or reverb they have . |
| 19 | She said , ‘ According to Tom Lofthouse , you did n't lose your nerve or your head when you ran into a real accident . ’ |
| 20 | I was becoming so tense that my head , neck and even my eyes were always so painful . |
| 21 | He struck me hard across the mouth so that my head cracked back against the bathroom wall . |
| 22 | Then I saw that the hills were my legs , and that my head was being pushed between them . |
| 23 | But what happened to me was that my head was bitten off almost literally . |
| 24 | I hit the door handle and did a dip and shuffle so that my head was below the knife slash arc and made an undignified but unscathed exit , taking the keys with me . |
| 25 | I lay back in my bed , hoping that Eric was still at large and heading this way , and also that my head and guts would stop reminding me how uncomfortable they could feel . |
| 26 | Unfortunately I dived in one day without realising that the pool had been emptied ( I am short-sighted ) , and although my head turned out to be harder than the pool bottom , it seemed to dampen my enthusiasm for the sport . |
| 27 | Its downfall came with the failed coup d'état of August 1991 when it was clear that its head , Vladimir Kryuchkov , was one of the instigators of the coup . |
| 28 | Mildred realized that her head had reappeared , which must have looked rather alarming , bobbing about all over the place with no body attached . |
| 29 | He arched her roughly forward so that her head was crushed against his stomach , her face just inches from his groin as he reached for the hands bound behind her back . |
| 30 | This time it caught Millie across the wrist , and when she reacted by rising from her seat in an effort to leave the room , she found herself thrust back with such force that her head bobbed on her shoulders . |