Example sentences of "it [verb] [pos pn] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | It rears its head in Eastern Europe , in North America and in Western Europe . |
| 2 | And it got its head trod in . |
| 3 | A caricature of a dog was sitting on the lawn in front of one of the town houses as he passed , and it laid its head on its paws and looked at him with dark eyes . |
| 4 | He slapped her hard and it made her head jerk back . |
| 5 | It made her head ache and there had been a kind of knot in her stomach ever since her nephew had made his absurd announcement . |
| 6 | well Lindsey , mind she smoking when she was twelve and drinking and she did n't like it she says because it made her head go all funny and she did n't know what was going on , what was happening . |
| 7 | St Michael 's Church — ‘ a gem of Baroque Moravian architecture ’ — was firmly shut and St Wenceslas Cathedral , founded in 1109 and rebuilt at the end of the last century on a vast neo-Gothic scale , was dark , impressive and so cold inside it made your head ache . |
| 8 | Pascoe took a swallow of Scotch ; it made his head swim . |
| 9 | It made my head swim , so that I can remember , after that , only hopeless confusion : Nonni coming in and crying , Richard yelling at her to get out and mind her own business , and behind it all , poor Tom sobbing and sobbing . |
| 10 | It jerked its head away . |
| 11 | oh , was that what it was and it jerked your head ? |
| 12 | I slam a blow into his cheek , and it knocks his head against the wall . |
| 13 | It lifted its head , then , catching his scent , came charging towards him , barking with delight . |
| 14 | Every time it lifted its head and pirouetted , it registered the new direction it was taking in relation to the sun . |
| 15 | A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head . |
| 16 | Sensing their presence on the threshold of the door , it twisted its head up towards them with a atrocious snarl . |
| 17 | If you if you happy and you know it tip your head , but not your head , if you if you 're happy and you know it do a four |
| 18 | Three men held the yak 's head down with ropes , their weight pitted against the great muscles of its neck and shoulders as it threw its head about , crazy with the pain of the knife in its withers . |
| 19 | Bragg slapped the off-side horse on the rump , and it shook its head as if in greeting . |
| 20 | It shook its head and walked away . |
| 21 | It 's intriguingly titled ‘ The Revenge Of The Goldfish ’ and it blows your head off . |
| 22 | It had been saddled up ready for him and as Li Yuan stood there , it turned its head curiously , its large dark eyes meeting the prince 's as if it knew its new owner . |
| 23 | I said it pierces your head |
| 24 | It flooded his head , charged it with recklessness and brought — he could feel it happening — a warm flush to his face . |
| 25 | If it scents its prey , it swings its head from side to side to determine the direction from which the smell is coming . |
| 26 | This is another reason for travelling with the dog adequately restrained , rather than allowing it to put its head out of the window , like this Newfoundland . |
| 27 | Between a failed , boarded-up jeweller 's and a grocer 's displaying a windowful of sunshine cornflakes was a dark cavern of a shop , so dimly lit one did not at first notice it as it bowed its head under the tenement above . |
| 28 | He handed her a blanket as she had no shawl and made sure it covered her head to keep out the cold . |
| 29 | Not that Lori had said anything incriminating , but the sheer tension of waiting for it started her head thumping . |
| 30 | I lifted my hair , let it fall , and the weight of it brought my head down to see that Leon had n't moved . |