Example sentences of "[pron] [prep] the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Security police snatched away members of the 1,000-strong march and beat them about the head with truncheons as the crowd chanted ‘ No violence ’ and ‘ We 're staying here ’ . |
| 2 | In another part of the city , near the Gethsemane church in the run-down Prenzlauer Berg district , police attacked a candlelit procession by about 1,000 young people , beating them about the head with truncheons , as the crowd chanted ‘ no violence ’ . |
| 3 | My eyes light up at the sight of her even though she 's hitting me about the head , so to speak . |
| 4 | They hacked me in the ribs and then proceeded to batter me about the head . |
| 5 | The organizer taps someone on the head and that child has to tiptoe round the circle while ‘ Sleeping Beauty ’ tries to point to the person . |
| 6 | At two , your child does n't realise that if she bangs someone on the head with a spade , it hurts . |
| 7 | ‘ Having kids is a privilege , a joy , or it should be , and , by God , I 'll get the County down on you if I see you strike that boy of yours on the head again ! |
| 8 | Picked up a revolver and shot himself through the head . ’ |
| 9 | On April 3 , 1915 , Stoddart shot himself through the head — the saddest of ends for such a famous cricketer who had brought much brilliance to the game . |
| 10 | Sivarasan ( also known as Raja Arumainayagam or " One-Eyed Jack " ) shot himself through the head as police stormed his hideout in a suburb of the southern city of Bangalore . |
| 11 | It is likely that attempts were made to create similar kingdoms on the western frontier along the Severn Valley , but these were frustrated by Caratacus , who had established himself as the head of the anti-Roman forces in the region now known as Wales . |
| 12 | Lindsay Crosby : 51 , youngest son of the singer Bing Crosby , found dead in his Los Angeles home after apparently shooting himself in the head with a smallbore rifle . |
| 13 | It was later announced that General Oufkir had committed suicide by shooting himself in the head — three times . |
| 14 | A man Robert recognized as the second man from the Frog and Ferret started to hop in circles , beating himself on the head and shouting something . |
| 15 | How can it help me do my job ? point of view the reason is that it can help you do your job is very simply that to involve members of the public er local councils , local authorities , decision makers and allows the outcome to , to erm entertain them and to erm hope for and communicate what it is they 'll come erm in a non-threatening , non-selling , non-hard sell environment where they can come along , they can enjoy themselves and go away and form their own opinions without somebody over the head with what they 're try to sa trying to do erm |
| 16 | You know , you buy co , a bottle of Coke , it says , you know , if you hit somebody over the head , it can hurt them , so please do n't , kids do n't do this at home type stuff . |
| 17 | I was particularly taken by Patricia Routledge , unmistakeable even looking through a letter box , and by Lionel Jeffries for his affecting rendition of : The troops are ready to mutiny , The colonel is missing or dead , When up steps a bold , young lieutenant And places himself at the head . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'll go in front as the standard bearer , ’ said Nigel as he placed himself at the head of his patrol . |
| 19 | Ferdinando was far too old , but only mention the cause and he would be into his old daydreams , seeing himself at the head of a column moving relentlessly on the Austrians . |
| 20 | The civil rights marches created an opportunity for Ian Paisley to put himself at the head of plebeian Protestant resistance to the civil rights movement . |
| 21 | He smiled to himself at the head of the stairs . |
| 22 | Ramsay , who found himself at the head of nearly a thousand men of Lothian , largely Lindsays — whose chief , Sir David , Keeper of Edinburgh Castle , was sick and so not present — Setons , Hepburns , Sinclairs , Keiths and other lesser clans , as well as his own men , offered to ride fast for the Borderland , to join Scott of Rankilburn whom Douglas had alerted to watch Dunbar ; together they would make up a force large enough to give that Earl pause . |
| 23 | Acland placed himself at the head of the ‘ moral renaissance ’ , consolidating a personal following built around his best-selling books and endless public meetings into a loose organization called ‘ Forward March ’ . |
| 24 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |
| 25 | What he expected was to see the Labour Government driven into an election either by its own dissensions or by the action of the Liberals , and its consequent replacement by a Conservative administration , obviously with himself at the head . |
| 26 | Law conceived of the role of the leader in an exactly opposite sense from Balfour : he sought to foster unity by placing himself at the head of the discordant elements where Balfour had thrown the leadership on the side of restraint . |
| 27 | In June 1263 , however , when Simon of Montfort [ q.v. ] resurrected the cause of the Provisions and advanced on the capital , Fitzthomas placed himself at the head of ‘ the people ’ who had taken to the streets in Montfort 's support . |
| 28 | In June 1915 my father commented : " I am coming to the conclusion that the heir to the throne of Solomon is at heart a Moslem and is entertaining dreams of one day putting himself at the head of the Mohammadan Abyssinians , and of producing a Moslem kingdom that will stretch far beyond the frontiers of his present Empire . " |
| 29 | In this time it became clear that the military and state security forces were not all solidly behind the coup , especially in the face of popular resistance , with Russian Federation ( RSFSR ) President Boris Yeltsin setting himself at the head of protesters apparently willing to fight for the new freedoms brought about by the reforms of perestroika . |
| 30 | In Wales also Gloucester was expected to set himself at the head of existing officials . |