Example sentences of "head and [noun pl] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The children need to be taught to move head and eyes to compensate for the field loss .
2 He stayed that way for a moment waiting for a sudden onslaught of dizziness to pass ; three or four times , he shook his head and bloodbeads flicked across the room .
3 The blast took the oriental in the right shoulder , knocked him off his feet and hurled him clear across the room , where he crashed to a stop with his head and shoulders propped against the far wall .
4 But as it was I travelled only so far down the ramp and stuck there with my head and shoulders protruding into the street .
5 One is a cab-driver , whose hat , head and shoulders rise from the cab-stand at the right of the picture , between the globes of two gas lamps .
6 Schmidt went backwards off his heels , dropping his full length on the slope , head and shoulders slamming into the chalk .
7 No one approached the dog : it lay in a space of its own with its head and shoulders displayed on the icy stones of the path , its hindquarters crouched in the frosty grass .
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