Example sentences of "it [verb] its 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 | It jerked its head away . |
| 5 | It lifted its head , then , catching his scent , came charging towards him , barking with delight . |
| 6 | Every time it lifted its head and pirouetted , it registered the new direction it was taking in relation to the sun . |
| 7 | A sport , like a new spouse , can be so infatuated with its glamourous partner that it loses its head . |
| 8 | Sensing their presence on the threshold of the door , it twisted its head up towards them with a atrocious snarl . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Bragg slapped the off-side horse on the rump , and it shook its head as if in greeting . |
| 11 | It shook its head and walked away . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | If it scents its prey , it swings its head from side to side to determine the direction from which the smell is coming . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | it kept its head above , rich folds of cloud |
| 17 | The cat opened one eye cautiously , saw that it was true and sprang onto Mildred 's shoulder where it rubbed its head gratefully against her hair . |
| 18 | This is even more apparent in the long necked birds such as the heron , which has one special vertebrae in the middle of its neck which enables it to thrust its head suddenly at unsuspecting fish . |
| 19 | It put its head on one side and fixed them with one evil black eye . |
| 20 | Once he had called it , appealed to aggiornamento , banned anathemas , included observers of other Churches within its deliberations , and allowed it to have its head against the warnings of the guardians of the old order such as Ottaviani and Ruffini , the consequences were inevitable : the foundations of many hundred years were going to be rocked upon every side . |
| 21 | Then it inclined its head and struggled fiercely with arms pointing earthwards , and Roland caught glints of silver and reconstituted it as a person in a wheel-chair , possibly in difficulty . |