Example sentences of "of [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rainbow locks the taxi , and the pair of them head round the back of the Palace towards the pond . |
| 2 | In the cave itself , bas-reliefs sculpted close together on a stalagmite cone , hard to make out for the most part , except for an obvious and memorable reindeer some three feet long , in the museum , animals graphically carved or engraved on bone , many of them heads of horses , but fish too , and pieces of bone , antler and ivory carved quite elaborately into abstract patterns of diamond shapes , chevrons or spirals . |
| 3 | As he caught them , he placed them on the counter in front of her , all in a row , all of them heads . |
| 4 | The rocker switch on the side of my head clicked … work off , weekend on … stress off , mellow on … and sea air crackled static through my stale brain . |
| 5 | Within seconds the blood from the gash that once been the left side of my head had poured all over the side of my face and filled up my left eye ; so that was why I could not see . |
| 6 | In the light of my head torch I could see that Nat was grey-faced with fatigue , his eyelids drooping , his mouth surrounded by frost that he had not had the strength to wipe away . |
| 7 | In the morning there is a centimetre of ice on the tent pole to the side of my head , probably from my breath while I slept . |
| 8 | Marie strokes the back of my head , but it just makes it worse . |
| 9 | Then I get this hot feeling at the back of my head and everything goes funny and I find myself on the floor . |
| 10 | THERE was one point when the hair on the back of my head began to lift . |
| 11 | They came off the top of my head . ’ |
| 12 | Letting the water buoy up my weight I stretched my feet down to touch bottom and found the water came up to my ears ; took a deep breath , put the rest of my head under and reached around for Harry , unable to see him , unable with open eyes to see anything at all . |
| 13 | Can you tell me a way to get these dreadful pictures out of my head ? |
| 14 | Increasingly as I examined the implications of primate studies for ourselves and tried to see some convincing link between baboons and men a voice began muttering in the back of my head ‘ Hey — that 's not it at all . ’ |
| 15 | I attach a proposal drafted somewhat off the top of my head , which you may like to use to open discussions with the Navarra Ministry . |
| 16 | For weeks I would pull slivers of skin like rice-paper from the top of my head and my ears . ) |
| 17 | I completed my 100 metre strides after they 'd gone , my heels flicking up the divots on to the back of my head . |
| 18 | I bent forward to see if I could recognise him — there was something vaguely familiar about him , the voice perhaps — and then he hit me on the side of my head — ’ Poor Miss Watson faltered and her eyes filled with tears at the memory of that vicious blow . |
| 19 | In my imagination , I can lift off the top of my head , just like a lid . |
| 20 | Tommy had started and trimmed one side of my head , then noticing that it was six o'clock said ‘ Sha n't be a minute ’ and was gone for ten . |
| 21 | Mr Lazarus described it ‘ as if a bolt of energy shot up my spine and burst through the top of my head . |
| 22 | I used to tap dance , high kick , do splits , pull my legs up at the back of my head . |
| 23 | I walk up to the spot where a rabbit is entangled , I get down on one knee and lift the top line of the net over the back of my head . |
| 24 | I work straight out of my head onto the canvas . |
| 25 | So it 's funny to see it written in stone , as it were , something that I did off the top of my head . ’ |
| 26 | We had gotten to that section of the tune where it was obvious that we had played enough for the outro and I decided , off the top of my head , to start playing a song that I had started writing earlier in the week . |
| 27 | I must get these people out of my head . |
| 28 | One of the light calibre bullets had missed the top of my head by an inch and a half ! ’ |
| 29 | Soon my buttocks were pressing against the ceiling , then the back of my head , and I hauled myself to the edge of the rug to look for a way down before I was crushed . |
| 30 | He even left his foot imprint in the middle of my head . ’ |