Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] at the head " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ackerley himself marches at the head of this file of memorialists . |
| 2 | The key to Bigorre , geographically , is Lourdes , which stands at the head of the valley of the Gave de Pau , at a point where the river makes a sudden lunge to the west having long ago found its way north blocked by moraine . |
| 3 | Although which occurs at the head of the relative clause , its syntactic function is actually as object of the verb ( catch ) of the that-clause which is subordinate to the relative clause . |
| 4 | The first scrambling to be found is in Birchin Clough , which rises at the head of the trio of reservoirs above the village of Greenfield . |
| 5 | She paused at the head of the stairs , as if expecting someone to ascend ; the house remained silent save for the creaking of settling timbers . |
| 6 | She stood at the head of the small table , waiting for her son and daughter to seat themselves on either side of her and then sat down . |
| 7 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 8 | A male and a female who stood at the head of the profession have died lately , and it is supposed their places shall not be filled . " |
| 9 | ‘ We sat at the head table … . |
| 10 | Since the quadrupling of the defence budget in 1950–55 , the president 's main source of power has come from the fact that he sits at the head of a great ‘ national security state ’ — to adopt the phrase of Daniel Patrick Moynihan , a Democratic senator . |
| 11 | ‘ But its situation , ’ continues Johnson , ‘ seems well chosen for pleasure , if not for strength ’ ; and then in half a sentence he gives us a glimpse of local life and activity : ‘ It stands at the head of the lake and , by a sloop of sixty tuns , is supplied from Inverness with great convenience ’ — which description immediately conjures the vessel plying up and down Loch Ness with provisions , armaments , soldiers ' wives . |
| 12 | He glanced at the head , which was resting in the crook of his right arm . |
| 13 | He sat at the head of the table and was served by kneeling courtiers such as might have attended a real prince . |
| 14 | He sat at the head of the table carefully scrutinising the document in front of him as if it were a religious text which he had to examine for scriptural errors . |
| 15 | He sat at the head of the table in his white shirt , beautifully washed by Giovanna , with a silk scarf knotted at the neck , looking handsome and quizzical as he drank Chianti and told the girls about his less lurid divorce cases and more eccentric clients . |
| 16 | The fertile combination of theory and practice was his own , however , and he stood at the head of a great group of people working on the new phenomena of electricity . |
| 17 | Your looking at the head on , its on the right hand side and the only you can get it so I do n't really bet how much put on it cos I do n't want to get out of my , done it all properly and that . |