Example sentences of "[vb pp] over [art] head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver said he guessed it was partly because Cobalt had led the sort of life where being thumped over the head with a bottle was not a unique experience . |
| 2 | When seen over the head of a Naga they designate his rank or position within the Naga hierarchy depending upon his degree of spiritual attainment . |
| 3 | A quarrel between Corcyra , a daughter-city of Corinth , and Epidamnos , a daughter-city of Corcyra herself , led to the first open clash , the battle of Sybota , between Athenian and Peloponnesian League ships ( 433 ) : Epidamnos had appealed over the head of Corcyra to the ‘ grandmother ’ Corinth , while Corcyra asked for , and got , help from Athens . |
| 4 | I 've had three weeks of being ordered about , laughed at , sneered at , talked over the head of , ignored . |
| 5 | The chief mourner continued to wear a coat with train , together with the mourning hood , but even the manner of wearing the hood changed : draped round the shoulders like a short scarf rather than being worn over the head . |
| 6 | Had I not gone to Normandy just over forty years ago wearing on my shoulder the same emblem , that mythical beast , the Wyvern of Wessex , half dragon , half eagle , that had fluttered over the heads of the English at both those battles ? |
| 7 | Above that a heavy mantle is wrapped all round the body and brought over the head . |
| 8 | It involves co-operation between both sides of the body : for instance , as one leg is put into a trouser-leg , the other holds the body upright ; a sweater has to be pulled over the head and then organized so that one 's arms can slide into the sleeves . |
| 9 | For ease , upper garments like a sweater or shirt are pulled over the head first , and the hemiplegic arm comes out of its sleeve last . |
| 10 | All the peoples of the far north-east wore two-layer deerskin clothing , the men having a jerkin pulled over the head , while women wore a combination garment . |
| 11 | Queen Elizabeth 's vault in Westminster Abbey was examined in 1868 by Dean Stanley : ‘ There was no disorder or decay , except that the centring wood had fallen over the head of Elizabeth 's coffin , and that the wood case had crumbled away at the sides , and had drawn away part of the decaying lid . ’ |
| 12 | The links between politics and patronage can not have been beneficial to the efficiency of the customs service as a revenue-collecting agency , for all too often strong political interests could secure an important post for a man with little or no experience who was placed over the head of men far better qualified than himself , and presumably resentful of their own failure to secure advancement . |
| 13 | I hung on , and we stood thus , on tiptoe , joined over the heads of the crowd by the famous book . |
| 14 | There , at Kemp 's home again I 'm guessing — a quarrel took place in which Kemp was struck over the head and sent stumbling in his own living room , where his right temple crashed against the kerb of the fire-place — and where he died . |
| 15 | Has n't he got enough to worry about without being clobbered over the head by the injured pride of a woman fortunate enough to have the time and the brain to worry about the title on her season ticket ? |
| 16 | I look to the day when the , to see what the tabloids make , when one of these individuals gets clobbered over the head er , in carrying out their duties . |
| 17 | You might think the only safe course is straightforward , sound , economic government and you might wonder therefore why so rarely in recent years Governments have practised it , except when they have been hit over the head by external forces and events that they could n't resist . |
| 18 | When she was hit over the head with a brick and put off work for four months , she came back for more . |
| 19 | He was hit over the head and broke an ankle but disarmed the 6ft raider and sent him packing . |
| 20 | Despite being hit over the head , he clung to the gun and the raiders fled empty-handed . |
| 21 | They did n't want to be hit over the head like that , he concluded with his characteristic weary shrug . |
| 22 | A Chelmsford motorist was hit over the head with a golf club , during an altercation at a hamburger stall on the A12 near to the town . |
| 23 | A Chelmsford motorist was hit over the head during the incident at a burger bar on the A12 . |
| 24 | ‘ I was hit over the head . ’ |
| 25 | Mrs Chandler , a 47-year-old occupational therapist , was left for dead after being repeatedly hit over the head with a rock . |
| 26 | Apparently the China deal was cut over the head ( and protest ) of USL 's other joint venture Univel Inc and Univel 's other owner Novell . |
| 27 | The stretcher was being passed over the heads of the crowd . |
| 28 | A few fainting cases were passed over the heads of the crowd to the touchline . |
| 29 | It was awkward , too , from the sales point of view , that Richard had been aboard one of these barges when he got knocked over the head . |
| 30 | As a result of this , their professional commitment to arms grew : in France , in the second half of the fourteenth century , some esquires ( men on the very fringe of noblesse ) were promoted over the heads of knights , whose numbers in the French army declined anyhow after about 1380 , a suggestion that professionalism was coming to be well regarded . |