Example sentences of "their heads " in BNC.
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| 1 | The men in the bush are watched by gods who are barely a jump above their heads : these white gods are more remote . |
| 2 | The church not only provided solace and comfort in those long years , but also a vigorous identity which enabled its people to hold up their heads amid the persecution and oppression . |
| 3 | And when the lies have gone , he wrote , when the mausoleums lie empty , then streams will once again begin to flow and trees to bud , mountains will raise their heads again and gales will turn into gentle breezes , while the sun will only warm and never scorch . |
| 4 | It gives them plenty of cover and also somewhere to rest with their heads out of the water but their bodies submerged . |
| 5 | Off with their heads |
| 6 | Midges drawn by the smell of their sweat swarmed round their heads and young Angus began to regret his curiosity , but his father 's face was set and dark in a way that froze out complaints , or chatter of any kind . |
| 7 | He could have laid in wait for the soldiers and split their heads and — ‘ Fight ? |
| 8 | A few had turned on their sides in the hay and cradled their heads on their arms . |
| 9 | They did not waste time there but headed downhill , taking the shepherds ' road that slanted luminous green between clusters of birches , their shadows stretching ahead like gawky giants so that the children jigged to make the shadows jump and curved their fingers from their heads to give the giants silhouettes like devils . |
| 10 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 11 | Sandy McGlashan had arrived late , his hair plastered down with sweat ; he was spluttering over the tale , to whoever would listen , of how he had ‘ come up flemyng and Menzies of Bolfracks , in the street at Aberfeldy , they had their heads together and were plotting something wicked , no doubt about it , if only he could have heard what they were saying ’ . |
| 12 | Above their heads bats flickered almost invisibly between the treetops . |
| 13 | Their heads seethed with possibilities , worries , further problems . |
| 14 | They bent their heads under the lintel and stepped inside . |
| 15 | And Alex was accepting the hand-clasp — Cameron and Menzies were rising from the bench to shout a warning , a plea — the coach jerked under them , flinging them backwards , their heads banged on the panelling , they were pounding down the hill towards the crowd , Colberg 's voice yelling ‘ At them ! at them ! ’ , people reeling away on both sides , jumping onto the parapet , a woman screaming , a red wound slashed along her brow . |
| 16 | ‘ If they had , the troopers would have had their heads off . ’ |
| 17 | Black figures stirred and poked their heads at each other like rooks in a rookery . |
| 18 | MacMillan has made this last song a welcome to the future as the three protagonists quietly and slowly come forwards , their hands linked , gradually raising their heads as if greeting a new day . |
| 19 | Some 35 penalties were awarded , the teams occasionally shaking their heads in bafflement . |
| 20 | But perhaps most severe of all are tests for susceptibility to motion sickness : they will be blindfolded , and have to move their heads and upper parts of the body back and forth or up and down ; and they will be pushed back and forward on a track every five seconds for 20 minutes . |
| 21 | The crowds in turn shouted ‘ no violence ! ’ and put their hands above their heads , as if daring the Volkspolizei , the people 's police , and the plainclothes men , the Stasis , to beat them . |
| 22 | Those bold enough to put their heads above the parapet — still by no means the majority — feel that to make demands even for basic freedoms is radical , in the present climate . |
| 23 | Long before experts scratched their heads over the increase in teenage pregnancies , Shakespeare 's Romeo and Juliet demonstrated the essential hotheadedness , spontaneity and damn-the-consequences timeframes of teenagers . |
| 24 | By the number of enemy dead lying about the fields and approaches to the village , the British attacks have finally forced them to move out , taking shelter in a slit trench during a German mortar attack , everyone keeping their heads down . |
| 25 | The firing has ceased as we get to our feet , the Germans stand up , their hands above their heads leaving the wounded Officer on the ground . |
| 26 | They were sitting in a hollow in the centre of the orchard , their hands on their heads . |
| 27 | When they tried to stop him from taking into the colony a youth from the Political Special Section of the Army First Reserves , he appealed over their heads to the Workers ' and Peasants ' Inspectorate ( Rabkrin ) , which came down on his side . |
| 28 | In early April , in fine spring weather , the miners went back to work , ‘ their heads held high ’ , with brass bands blaring and ancient banners on display . |
| 29 | Because some people are making large profits , and raising the total of profits by so doing , it is proposed to come down on the ‘ innocent ’ businesses , whose profits may actually have gone down , who have been being ‘ responsible ’ and not increasing their prices ; and their taxes will be put up — all because of the other bounders , who meanwhile are laughing their heads off . |
| 30 | Their hats sailed up , whirling black against the screen , as the dust rose from the red plush seating , while in the back rows the disapproving dentist 's wife , would shake their heads and tut tut at the rowdies down front . |