Example sentences of "[pron] head at the " in BNC.

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1 This being that you cut off my head at the same time . ’
2 I shake my head at the Amiga screen .
3 She shakes her head at the memory of the anti-commercial ‘ hardcore ’ aesthetic which prevailed at the time .
4 The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper .
5 She jerked her head at the boy and he went over and turned the knob .
6 Red lights seemed to explode inside her head at the outrageous arrogance of his words .
7 Shaking her head at the kick , she lashed out at the whole row of stores opposite her cathedral and dispelled them to dust .
8 Almost violently , she raised her body , ducking her head at the same time , her feverish lips seeking the scorching lure of his again , the demand for his kiss born out of an intuitive need to let him silence her , so that he might not hear the words and other sounds which would tell him just how complete his dominion of her senses already was .
9 While she was standing in the grubby little shop , this incongruous memory had flashed into her head at the sight of her face .
10 She shook her head at the Flower Fairy plates on the living room wall — ‘ reproductions ! ’
11 She nodded her head at the cardiac monitor screen over against the far wall .
12 Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan .
13 Again she tilted her head at the audience , still singing .
14 No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ?
15 I stole a quick sidelong glance , and saw him turn his head at the same instant to look at me and give a faint smile .
16 Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage .
17 It 's time you learned a bit of respect for Mr Harker 's babies — ’ jerking his head at the rumbling monsters all around them .
18 The Chairmaster shrugged his shoulders and shook his head at the same time , finally dislodging the reluctant wig .
19 Mr Piggott clicked his false teeth in disapproval at such wicked waste , and shook his head at the ‘ FOR SALE ’ board which had been erected at the gate the week before .
20 Male model Hay , 22 , only escaped death by moving his head at the critical moment .
21 I get the impression he agrees with what I 'm saying and he 's just shaking his head at the sheer extent of human deviousness and spite .
22 Klift cocked his head at the distant rumble .
23 Willoughby was shaking his head at the stenographer .
24 Outside , the guard shook his head at the antics of the scientists , disturbed only by the niggling sensation that he 'd overlooked something .
25 His coupe-coupe and his other tapping tools hung limply in his hands at his sides , and he did n't raise his head at the Corsican 's approach .
26 Coleman shakes his head at the memory of it .
27 Dwight Kronweiser too shook his head at the thought : if only there could have been a Machin Archive at the University of East Louisiana .
28 He jerked his head at the shy .
29 He is lying on top of the covers , as he often is , with his head at the bottom of the bed and his feet on the pillow .
30 with his head at the bottom of the and we do n't know how .
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