Example sentences of "[pron] stand at the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 2 | She stood at the head of the small table , waiting for her son and daughter to seat themselves on either side of her and then sat down . |
| 3 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 4 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 5 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 6 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |