Example sentences of "on [pron] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | I felt pretty silly wearing a plastic walnut shell on my head . |
| 2 | If I was walking down a street and some scaffolding fell on my head I would n't say ‘ oh dear ’ . ' |
| 3 | As Sabra , a woman in her forties , told me ‘ If I go out I usually do have my Dupatta round me , but at work I ca n't wear it in case it gets caught up in the machines , so I just wear a scarf on my head when I leave the house — something is needed to save one 's Izzat ’ . |
| 4 | I du n no what to do with it , so I stick it on my head . |
| 5 | My hat ai n't on my head , and I look round for it . |
| 6 | I feel on my head again , but it ai n't there . |
| 7 | ‘ I would n't feel dressed without something on my head or a really good hairdo — it 's got to be a hairdo or a hat ! ’ |
| 8 | It really does sometimes feel like someone 's playing a trick on my head . |
| 9 | We held hands going to school every morning , Jimmy and I , and three times I stood on my head for him at Miss Annie 's to prove my love . |
| 10 | Mechanical , perhaps , and , as the band plays airs from ‘ Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head ’ , ordinary and faintly bathetic . |
| 11 | I used to put a mop on my head and pretend it was my hair . |
| 12 | When I put the mop on my head , I did n't want dreadlocks , I wanted blonde hair like Sindy 's . |
| 13 | If I had put a tea cosy on my head I would have been a dead ringer for Mrs Pankhurst , but it affected my behaviour even more than my looks . |
| 14 | Suddenly I felt Wilkerson 's hand on my head . |
| 15 | I would like to ask if it might be possible for Oxford University Press to make use of the track Raindrops Keep Falling on my Head by Sacha Distel in a non-broadcast educational video . |
| 16 | 11 Raindrops keep Falling on my Head ( SASHA DISTEL ) MCA Records to advise position ( 21/6 ) . |
| 17 | See you this lump on my head ! |
| 18 | Allusion to Shakespeare , Hamlet , I. v : ‘ With all my imperfections on my head . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ With all my imperfections on my head ’ , BH 2 . |
| 20 | As for me , I wore a white countryman 's smock that Mum had made , had a red handkerchief tied around my neck and a floppy grey felt hat with wide brim was stuck on my head . |
| 21 | The accused , who pleaded guilty , said , ‘ I felt the devil and his horns on my head when I plunged the knife through his heart . ’ |
| 22 | A drip had landed on my head . |
| 23 | Such games are usually very playable but BTTF is so poorly executed , I 'd rather have Corky stand on my head than play this drivel again . |
| 24 | I just have to put up with all the humiliations that fall on my head in this great country ! |
| 25 | There were shaky cane chairs to go with the table , which I carried home on my head , and there Mum sat hour after hour , doing calligraphy — Christmas and birthday cards on squares of lush paper . |
| 26 | I would n't have minded if I 'd had a bump on my head , a cross on it or a bullet through it . |
| 27 | ‘ He struck me repeatedly on my head and my arms . |
| 28 | Important items of equipment have mysteriously gone missing : a headtorch , which was on my head as I returned to the car at the end of a Wasdale winter expedition but was nowhere to be found when I arrived back home ; or the key , map and information to a hut in Wales for which my club had recently gained reciprocal rights — all three items vanished between locking up the hut on our departure and arriving back home in South Cumbria . |
| 29 | If I came out of the changing-room with a bin-liner round my waist and a lampshade on my head he 'd say that they suited me . |
| 30 | Some months later it dawned on me that he had put his hands on my head and what this implied ! |