Example sentences of "[pron] head at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I shake my head at the Amiga screen .
2 She jerked her head at the boy and he went over and turned the knob .
3 Shaking her head at the kick , she lashed out at the whole row of stores opposite her cathedral and dispelled them to dust .
4 She shakes her head at the memory of the anti-commercial ‘ hardcore ’ aesthetic which prevailed at the time .
5 The maid had retired , tossing her head at the thought of such low people as them gyppos having the sauce to interrupt the master at his supper .
6 She shook her head at the Flower Fairy plates on the living room wall — ‘ reproductions ! ’
7 While she was standing in the grubby little shop , this incongruous memory had flashed into her head at the sight of her face .
8 Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan .
9 Again she tilted her head at the audience , still singing .
10 No there was er three lads in the double bed and er another two lads in the single bed in one room , and mother was in the front room of course she had husband in those days you see when we were growing up , there was a it was not unusual to sleep top-to- tail if we had any pals , if we had a party and we had any pals we 'd sleep top-to-tail one with a head at the bottom and others with their head at the top , sounds like something out of the Dickens when you start talking about it do n't it ?
11 He is lying on top of the covers , as he often is , with his head at the bottom of the bed and his feet on the pillow .
12 with his head at the bottom of the and we do n't know how .
13 Coleman shakes his head at the memory of it .
14 Dwight Kronweiser too shook his head at the thought : if only there could have been a Machin Archive at the University of East Louisiana .
15 I thought I saw his head at the window .
16 He jerked his head at the shy .
17 Willoughby was shaking his head at the stenographer .
18 His coupe-coupe and his other tapping tools hung limply in his hands at his sides , and he did n't raise his head at the Corsican 's approach .
19 Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage .
20 Outside , the guard shook his head at the antics of the scientists , disturbed only by the niggling sensation that he 'd overlooked something .
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