Example sentences of "their head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Less affected people will move their head back and push forwards on the stick . |
| 2 | Throws which drop the opponent on to their head or shoulders will be penalised . |
| 3 | In Ashton 's The Two Pigeons and A Month in the Country there is the ecstatic quiver of the leg which continues upwards through the body until the Young Girl or Natalia and Vera can rest their head on their lover 's shoulder as they embrace . |
| 4 | Frank Fahey , the Irish Minister for Sport , told RTE that the situation demanded that they broadcast Hungary v Spain , which kicks off at five o'clock — a suggestion which brought a mind-your-own-business response from their head of sport , Tim O'Connor . |
| 5 | There are people who never leave home without one , while others feel ridiculous wearing something on their head . |
| 6 | In literature I was going to offer both British and American authors , both prose and poetry , so that was no problem , though it did mean that I should have to read authors I disliked — Conrad , Hemingway , Woolf , Graham Greene , C.P. Snow — but I leavened this stodgy bunch with those I felt more in sympathy with , though they were not officially on the syllabus — Waugh , Firbank and Forster at their head . |
| 7 | Only the male , in turn , can represent Christ , the paradigm of perfect humanity united to the Word of God.s According to Augustine , women also lack the image of God in themselves , and are related to the divine image only under the male ‘ who is their head ’ . |
| 8 | So , if a number of horses ask for dinner , which is a fairly basic demand in horses , some horses may ask verbally but others will summon their slaves by pawing the ground , or banging the gate , or kicking their stable , or tossing their head , and so on . |
| 9 | Equally , if they ask the tribe of their head of state for compensation , they locate the claim to sovereignty where it can not be . |
| 10 | Zuwaya found that those elements in their image which depended on solidarity among kinsmen — on the massing of cousins , on the exclusion of women — had rather more than an echo in the words of their head of state . |
| 11 | ‘ Anyone who buys this book needs their head tested , ’ he says . |
| 12 | Success has been own when we have given our people their head : when their natural skills , talents , energy , thrift and inventiveness have been released , not suppressed . |
| 13 | Some , more humane , now shook indeed their Head |
| 14 | Mme Fould ( wife of the Minister of State ) at their head , they pass one by one before the Empress , dragging after them enormous trains and making their ( more or less ) deep curtsies . |
| 15 | A lot of walkers take this fact for granted , striding about in the sure and certain knowledge that nothing will drop from a tree and start to devour their head . |
| 16 | Once again , the counter-revolution has taken over the key concepts of this approach and turned them on their head . |
| 17 | How can someone look elegant with a biscuit barrel on their head ? |
| 18 | Now came true tidings to Valencia that the host of the Almoravides were coming , and that they were now at Lorca , and the son in law of the Miramamolin at their head , for he himself could not come , by reason that he ailed . |
| 19 | Some interviewers have the ability to carry impressions and those assessments in their head ; most do not . |
| 20 | Albert ( one of the boys studied ) : Well , somebody gets a weird idea into their head , and they start to carry it out , and others join in . |
| 21 | I would enjoy creeping up upon someone and freezing when they turned their head . |
| 22 | They are as still as in Bryonia but it is because they are so tired and weary , not from the pain and their head is more congested than in Bryonia . |
| 23 | Mostly they have a dry hacking cough with morning expectoration , increasing to a most violent , gagging cough with vomiting and a sensation as if their head would burst or fly to pieces . |
| 24 | Most British overseas banks — Barclays DCO , Grindlays , Standard , etc. - had branches in various colonies while their head offices were situated in London . |
| 25 | Pettyway says : ‘ Whoever 's doing this wants their head seeing to . |
| 26 | Perhaps they could be down doing up somebody 's laces and that person whacks them across the top of their head . |
| 27 | Be aware of the resident 's feelings and do n't chatter above their head . |
| 28 | Practical matters also reared their head when 15 teams were given three hours and a selection of Meccano , paper cups , cotton reels and other bits and pieces to make a machine that would take a bag of coins all in one go , and dispense them one at a time for sorting . |
| 29 | Regular readers will no doubt be nodding their head knowingly : it 's ‘ authentic ’ , it 's Norrington , it 's [ JH ] — bound to be at least ! |
| 30 | Dr. Brill 's love of music is also well known , and after lunch he was entertained by the choir and orchestra of Perin 's Community School , under the direction of their head of music , Richard Stannard . |