Example sentences of "[pos pn] head at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fixtures include electric windows all round ( but manual door mirrors ) , steering wheel and driver 's seat adjustable for height leaving a full five fingers above my head at full height . |
| 2 | She also suffered from arthritis in the wrists , the fingers and the ankles and she was unable to turn her head at all ; this was due to a car accident several years before when she had suffered from whiplash . |
| 3 | She shook her head at that , denying it with vigour . |
| 4 | She started , feeling her colour rise at the possibility that he might have an inkling of what was going on in her head at that precise moment ! |
| 5 | She then picks up a stone in her jaws and , vibrating her head at high speed , bangs down the soil . |
| 6 | Noise had become Ariel 's lot : she , who had lifted her feet and put them down again so quietly on the slopes that birds did not stir at her passing , was used to hearing a single song in her head at any one time . |
| 7 | Kelly hung her head at this unusually long speech . |
| 8 | Sophie shook her head at this . |
| 9 | Sally-Anne tossed her head at this , and repeated that it was all nothing — ‘ And really you should not make such a fuss over so little ’ — but all the same she was happy to let Matey help her up to bed ; she felt strangely weak , and the thought of Sunday lunch and washing up , and all the work to be done before the day was over , made her feel worse than ever . |
| 10 | Or Charlie Christian turning jazz on its head at 24 . |
| 11 | He had a natural affinity with numbers , and could work out complicated equations in his head at four or five times the average human rate . |
| 12 | He half turned his head at that . |
| 13 | Gabriel scratched his head at that . |
| 14 | Standing beside the water tank , on top of the caravan 's portable step , Pa looks as tall as a Zulu in his red stole ( brown , for me ) with the black umbrella held over his head at full stretch by Ma who is standing behind in the mud and wet with a white towel draped over her arm and her hair flat and all dark with water . |
| 15 | But he did not know himself what it was and the impossibility of explaining made him turn his head at last and look across at the bright , rectangular picture Doyle was holding out . |
| 16 | ‘ No , we 're not ending it yet , ’ Luke asserted harshly as he raised his head at last , a feverish glitter of triumph in his eyes as she moaned protestingly . |
| 17 | Basil Hallward shook his head at this , but Dorian laughed . |
| 18 | And he proceeded to do so , off the top of his head at considerable length , to the admiration of all present . |