Example sentences of "them [prep] the head " in BNC.
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1 | Security police snatched away members of the 1,000-strong march and beat them about the head with truncheons as the crowd chanted ‘ No violence ’ and ‘ We 're staying here ’ . |
2 | In another part of the city , near the Gethsemane church in the run-down Prenzlauer Berg district , police attacked a candlelit procession by about 1,000 young people , beating them about the head with truncheons , as the crowd chanted ‘ no violence ’ . |
3 | Shape curved arms from fondant icing and position , tucking them under the head slightly to raise it up . |
4 | Used to take them out and shoot them in the head . |
5 | Detectives believe the broker , who helped Terry Waite 's efforts to free hostages in Lebanon , may even have drugged his wife and children before shooting them in the head . |
6 | Of the three main models , the fully electronic one was the most elaborate , with 85 separate movements controlled through a cable , 35 of them in the head . |
7 | The lighter electro-mechanical version had 60 movements , 30 of them in the head , and was also cable-controlled . |
8 | Because you ca n't wallop them round the head can you ? |
9 | Does it really matter that those were early days , when the joke on campus was that the only way to kill anyone with a laser was to hit them over the head with it ? |
10 | And you ca n't do that by beating them over the head with clichéd , didactic behaviour . |
11 | She said : ‘ I hit one of them over the head in the bedroom and then I got going . |
12 | Elsewhere , individual protesters were being held down while Mosley 's guards beat them over the head and about the face . |
13 | Bashing them over the head would be really tricky , take it from me . ’ |
14 | The person with the cushion on their lap then has to stroke them on the head and say ‘ Poor pussy ’ without laughing . |
15 | Less practical is physical destruction like squashing or bashing them on the head . |
16 | Now if you think you have been pleasant and helpful , you 've shared things with somebody , if they asked you a question you did n't bang them on the head , you helped , sign it now we come to the real sixty thousand point question , are you ready for this ? |
17 | I was hitting them on the head and they were all falling on the floor . |