Example sentences of "her head [verb] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Her head lay near a table-leg .
2 It seemed that a dark halo enclosed the men 's faces and her head filled with a sound of the sea .
3 Lorry driver Alan Brown saw a woman walking with her head bowed with a man following one pace behind .
4 She looked so forlorn , so utterly defeated , her head drooping like a snowdrop , her wonderfully lithe body clinging almost orgiastically to the tree trunk .
5 She sat up quickly , her head reeling for a moment .
6 The first time he 'd seen her , after all , she 'd had her head wrapped in a towel .
7 She foiled their efforts by calmly walking straight up through the pine trees , her head muffled with a headscarf and flat cap , leaving Fleet Street 's finest clueless as to her identity .
8 She sat very still for a moment , the room revolving around her like a carousel as the pain in her head hammered to a crescendo then receded again to a just bearable throb .
9 ‘ You are not of that opinion ? ’ enquired Lili , her head tilted in a way that I was beginning to be familiar with .
10 Her head rang like a bell .
11 She walked with a stagger , due to damage to the middle ear , her head swathed in a bandage and saliva dripping from the disfigured side of her mouth .
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