Example sentences of "[verb] at the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | In an effort to sharpen the ‘ business nose ’ , Heath has been shunted sideways , to become deputy chairman , while Don Seymour , a businessman , has been installed at the head of the company with the intention of making it profitable by 1984 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | SCENE : The Dining-Room — Eight Months Later Pa stands at the head of the table . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Rore properly stands at the head of this roll-call , above all for his madrigals which are both artistically and historically more important than his generally rather conservative Masses and motets . |
| 6 | The well known city of Luzern , possibly one of the country 's greatest tourist attractions , lies at the head of the north-west arm , and the small town of Fluelen , gateway to the Gotthard Pass route , lies 38km ( 24 miles ) away at the end of the long south-east arm which is called the Urner Lake after the name of the Uri canton in which it lies . |
| 7 | Here BT , p are written at the head of the left-hand array ; by obvious row combinations we find y at the bottom . |
| 8 | Although which occurs at the head of the relative clause , its syntactic function is actually as object of the verb ( catch ) of the that-clause which is subordinate to the relative clause . |
| 9 | Your looking at the head on , its on the right hand side and the only you can get it so I do n't really bet how much put on it cos I do n't want to get out of my , done it all properly and that . |
| 10 | At the end of the spacious triple-arched trainshed a heavily corniced three-storey frontage block was built at the head of twin flights of balustraded stairs rising to the entrance on the first floor . |
| 11 | Heavy freight 2-8-0- No. 2857 , on loan from the Severn Valley Railway , hauled hourly services between Toddington and Gretton starting at 11am while 50 year old Bagnall 0–6–0 No. 2566 ‘ Byfield No. 2 ’ could be seen at the head of a goods train shunting from the yard to the bay siding at Toddington . |
| 12 | In 1980 the US response to conflict at the head of the Gulf was twofold . |
| 13 | How we managed without all these aids — in fact by merely buying a coffin and getting on with it — I ca n't imagine , but I know that we were lucky to be living in the UK and not the US , where the open coffin , or at least one quarter open at the head end , is de rigueur . |
| 14 | A similar case is the sentence ( 7 ) which ends the opening paragraph of The Secret Sharer ( 3.3 ) Example 1 ) where the brevity of the sentence " And then I was left alone with my ship , anchored at the head of the Gulf of Siam " contrasts with the complexities of the preceding scene-setting sentences , as if to emphasize the insignificance of the lonely narrator against his background , the sea . |
| 15 | And then I was left alone with my ship , anchored at the head of the Gulf of Siam(7) . |
| 16 | Such enthusiasm , John Campbell thought wryly , taking his sister 's hand to lead her towards Abbot Kenneth standing waiting at the head of the hall . |
| 17 | She saw the old man who had accosted her on her walk that afternoon proceeding at the head of a little posse consisting of a neatly dressed man , a woman with untidy hair and a couple of children . |
| 18 | It all began when Wade was swimming with dolphins , imitating their movement in an undulation that began at the head and rippled along his body to his fins . |
| 19 | The largest of the nine stones into which it was shaped , the largest Star of Africa ( 530.2 carats ) , was mounted at the head of the Sceptre with the Cross , the second , a cushion-shaped stone of 317.4 carats , was incorporated in the front of the Imperial State Crown ( see Frontispiece ) , displacing the Stuart sapphire , and the third and fourth were mounted in the consort 's crown . |
| 20 | The zone control valve was mounted on a horizontal range pipe so that the drop pipe from it passed vertically through three levels , an open-sprinkler being mounted at the head of each level . |
| 21 | Salt mining at the head of the Nam Siew river has made parts of the river twice as salty as the sea . |
| 22 | As his English guest turned at the door of his study to bow to the Romanian head of state before leaving his presence , he saw that Ceauşescu was holding out his fingers in the shape of a gun pointing at the head of his own interpreter ! |
| 23 | Then , when the danger has passed , it starts to turn itself slowly back to its normal posture , beginning at the head end . |
| 24 | He glanced at the head , which was resting in the crook of his right arm . |
| 25 | Hearing the tramp of marching feet , he looked up to see Captain Warre riding at the head of his company . |
| 26 | The first scrambling to be found is in Birchin Clough , which rises at the head of the trio of reservoirs above the village of Greenfield . |
| 27 | Byrd 's 22 variations on ‘ Walsingham ’ present special difficulties including cross-rhythm , but Bull seems to have deliberately trumped them with his even more brilliant and difficult 30 variations on the same tune , which Tregian placed at the head of his anthology : a veritable thesaurus of keyboard devices . |
| 28 | Like most true Cornishmen , the Arundells were staunchly Royalist during the troubles , and the sixth Sir John was killed at Plymouth while charging at the head of his troop in 1643 . |
| 29 | It is unfortunate that both paths arrive at the head of the 350-foot falls where only the top plunge can be seen ; the steep slope alongside may be descended , with care , to bring more of this splendid waterfall within camera range . |
| 30 | The next day , push the fins into the marzipan , starting at the head with the smaller triangles , getting larger over the back of the body , and then smaller towards the tip of the tail . |