Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] my head " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did kiss me back then , as if he wanted to press his wretched thin inhibited mouth right through my head . |
| 2 | ‘ I was a little off my head , of course , but bits keep coming back . ’ |
| 3 | I heard Daffodil 's voice before I saw her , so that when Filmer came past the door of the bar I was bending down with my head below the counter as if to be tidying things there . |
| 4 | ‘ And is n't it a terrible thing to be bringing even more trouble down upon my head ? |
| 5 | Or entirely inside my head . |
| 6 | I asked , but it was only in my head . |
| 7 | I simply put the fourteen down in my head and multiply it by nineteen , ’ Matilda said . |
| 8 | Which is entirely in my head . |
| 9 | I believe I believe Mrs when she says she 'll jump up and down on my head if I get my homework in late . |
| 10 | And it does mean I know exactly how shitty you 're feeling at this moment , and all the horrible fates you 're wishing down on my head . ’ |
| 11 | He came behind my chair and looked down over my head . |
| 12 | At first it was part of a dream , which vanished as soon as I woke and knew that I was alone on the broch island , lying on the turf in a sleeping-bag , with my head pillowed on my rolled-up sweater , but seemingly connected with the earth itself , from which , apparently right below my head , came a sound every bit as strange as the mermaids ' song of the seals . |
| 13 | It was written on the wall just above my head : |
| 14 | I would be content to keep the events locked away in my head , if only out of plain charity , or respect for those other characteristics of the person in question which to some extent balance or even explain the apparent iniquities of his behaviour . |
| 15 | I would be content to keep the events locked away in my head , if only out of plain charity , or respect for those other characteristics of the person in question which to some extent balance or even explain the apparent iniquities of his behaviour . ’ |
| 16 | But when I did find out I was profoundly relieved to know that all these troubling fantasies which had been playing twice nightly in my head were , in fact , shared by others . |
| 17 | With that beat I needed a really stomping guitar line to go with it so I worked it through in my head and then worked out the chords on the piano . |
| 18 | Except that it 's four in the morning and Dr Serafin 's home life is largely inside my head . |
| 19 | Not just in my head , but in its externals . |
| 20 | It never comes easily — and nothing comes just from my head . |
| 21 | Ashley 's shoulders moved once under my head . |
| 22 | Lights flashing on and off in my head . |
| 23 | It felt as though a grenade had gone off in my head . |
| 24 | I 'll just know — the light will go off in my head . |
| 25 | You , who wanted me to enter you on the same night , with the same sound still in my head , a sound that I knew I had somehow , somewhere , heard before . |
| 26 | Is some of it still in my head ? ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Sir David Cardinal spoke next , and though I missed much of his speech , it seemed to be more technical in substance , and quite frankly , rather above my head . |
| 29 | I call the police and describe the sounds of the fighting going on above my head . |
| 30 | There ai n't no clouds in the sky — just one or two wispy ones right above my head , but it 's still blummin cold . |